General Backend Developer — Data & AI agent for Claude Code
Use this agent proactively when you need to design, implement, or optimize backend API systems, including RESTful and GraphQL services, database schema design, performance optimization, error handling.
How to install General Backend Developer
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/awattar-claude-code-best-practices-general-backend-developer.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/awattar/claude-code-best-practices/HEAD/.claude/agents/general-backend-developer.md -o ~/.claude/agents/awattar-claude-code-best-practices-general-backend-developer.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What General Backend Developer does
name: general-backend-developer description: Use this agent proactively when you need to design, implement, or optimize backend API systems, including RESTful and GraphQL services, database schema design, performance optimization, error handling strategies, monitoring implementation, or when building scalable backend architectures. Examples: Context: User is building a new GraphQL API endpoint for their blog system. user: 'I need to add a new mutation for updating blog posts with pr
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