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backendskills

Skills that stop AI agents from writing backend code that passes the demo and breaks in production. Critical mistakes: 25/150 runs without, 2/150 with. Claude Code, Codex, Cursor.

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GITHUB · launched Nov 5, 2026 · 48 upvotes (top 65%) · 0 views

Niche: ai agent guardrail software · 200 launches, 24 in the last 7 days ▲ +20% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags

  • Horizontal
  • Dev tools
  • Developer
  • AI-native
  • Commercial product
  • agent-skills
  • ai-coding
  • api-security
  • backend
  • benchmark
  • claude-code
  • +6 more

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Could you build this?

Yes The product is a set of agent skills, which are essentially curated instruction and documentation files for coding agents. Writing and testing these is well within reach of a solo builder using AI tools.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 449 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #272 of 450 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 345 days after the earliest competitor.

  • backendskills · ph · 2026-11-14 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.84
  • esp32-agent-skills · github · 2026-10-31 · 15 upvotes · similarity 0.49
  • HyperSkills · github · 2026-09-10 · 22 upvotes · similarity 0.49
  • tldr · github · 2026-09-11 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.48
  • Vet · hn · 2026-03-05 · 17 upvotes · similarity 0.46
  • lessloc · ph · 2026-10-22 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
  • SkillGild · ph · 2026-10-05 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
  • be-ambitious-harness · github · 2026-10-20 · 22 upvotes · similarity 0.43

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