backend-systems-guidance
Backend Systems Guidance
This is a composable overlay, not a standalone workflow. Use alongside the repo's implementation skill when the change touches backend code.
This is the canonical backend overlay in this repo.
It extends the thin baseline backend-guidance overlay with stronger guidance
for non-trivial service boundaries, repositories, reliability, and trust
boundaries.
Prefer it over backend-guidance when the task includes new endpoints or
consumers, multi-layer refactors, repository or transaction work, auth or
trust-boundary logic, or backend review that needs explicit testing and
reliability checks.
Use the bundled references only when needed:
- references/trigger-evals.md for lightweight
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