Backend Design Review

Quality score: 70/100 · Category: Security · Sub-category: security-misc

type:reviewtype:integration

Conducts comprehensive backend design reviews covering API design quality, database architecture validation, microservices patterns assessment, integration strategies evaluation, security design review, and scalability analysis. Evaluates API specifications (REST, GraphQL, gRPC), database schemas, service boundaries, authentication/authorization flows, caching strategies, message queues, and deployment architectures. Identifies design flaws, security vulnerabilities, performance bottlenecks, and scalability issues. Produces detailed design review reports with severity-rated findings, architecture diagrams, and implementation recommendations. Use when reviewing backend system designs, validating API specifications, assessing database schemas, evaluating microservices architectures, reviewing integration patterns, or when users mention backend design review, API design validation, database design review, microservices assessment, or backend architecture evaluation.

What this skill does

Backend Design Review is a production-ready Claude Code skill (quality score 70/100) in the security-misc sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/backend-design-review/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

When to invoke it: Use when reviewing backend system designs, validating API specifications, assessing database schemas, evaluating microservices architectures, reviewing integration patterns, or when users mention backend design review, API design validation, database design review, microservices assessment, or backend architecture evaluation.

Who uses this skill

The Backend Design Review skill is built for security engineers, penetration testers, DevSecOps practitioners, and development teams hardening codebases and infrastructure. It is part of the open ClaudSkills registry, a community-curated catalog of 15,000+ capabilities you can install for Claude Code — the Claude CLI agent.

How to install

Free

Manual install (2 steps)

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/backend-design-review
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/backend-design-review/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/backend-design-review/SKILL.md

Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/backend-design-review/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/backend-design-review/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\backend-design-review\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.

Pro

One-click install via the desktop app

The ClaudSkills desktop app installs any skill directly into ~/.claude/skills/ with one click — no terminal required. Pro starts at $9/mo or $149 lifetime.

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