Backend Integration Agent Skill

Analyzes the user's business problem and recommends the right backend integration approach — Web API, AI Web API (generative summaries /…

Context cost
23.2k tokensestimated from the bundle, loaded when it triggers
Bundle
3 files · 92.8 kBtext throughout, nothing executable
Licence
MITthe author’s own terms
Last change
—no release on file
Servers it uses
Noneruns standalone

What it does

Analyzes the user's business problem and recommends the right backend integration approach — Web API, AI Web API (generative summaries / grounded search), Server Logic, Cloud Flows, or a combination — for a Power Pages site, then routes to the appropriate specialized skill. Use when the user wants to add backend integration, connect to data, add AI summaries, or needs help deciding which backend approach to use.

What this skill changes about the agent has not been set out here as a list. Its SKILL.md, shown below, says it in the author’s own words.

The skill itself

A skill is instructions the model reads, so you can see what you are getting: below is the start of its SKILL.md. The front matter loads with every session, the body loads when the skill triggers, and the whole file comes with the install.

SKILL.md32.1 kB · preview
--- name: integrate-backend user-invocable: true argument-hint: describe what your backend needs to do allowed-tools: Read, Write, Edit, Bash, Grep, Glob, AskUserQuestion, Skill, Task, TaskCreate, TaskUpdate, TaskList model: opus ---
15> **Plugin check**: Run node "${PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/check-version.js" — if it outputs a message, show it to the user before proceeding.
16
17# Backend Integration
18
19Analyze the user's business problem and recommend the right backend integration approach — **Web API**, **AI Web API**, **Server Logic**, **Cloud Flows**, or a combination — then route to the appropriate skill(s) to implement the solution.
20
21## Core Principles
22
23- **Understand the problem first**: Never jump to a technology choice. Analyze the user's intent, data flow, security needs, and performance requirements before recommending.
24- **Recommend the simplest approach that works**: Web API for straightforward Dataverse CRUD, AI Web API for generative summaries or grounded search over existing data, Server Logic when server-side processing is needed, Cloud Flows for async background work. Don't over-engineer.
25- **Secure actions belong on the server**: When a write depends on a business rule that must be tamper-proof (state transitions, approval workflows, computed values), the server logic must validate AND execute the write — not just validate and leave the write to a client-side Web API call. See the **Secure Action Principle** in the decision framework.
26- **AI Web API sits on top of Web API**: The Data Summarization and Case-preset endpoints read through the same _api layer as regular Web API, so they inherit the same table permissions, column permissions, and Webapi/<table>/* site settings. When a plan has both a Web API item and an AI Web API item for the same table, the AI item depends on (and goes in a later phase than) the Web API item. Search Summary has no per-table prereqs and can stand alone.
27- **Combinations are normal**: Many real scenarios need more than one approach. Recommend combinations when justified, but explain why each piece is needed.
28- **Route, don't implement**: This skill recommends and invokes the right skill(s). It does not create backend files itself.
29
30**Initial request:** $ARGUMENTS
31
32---
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This is a preview of SKILL.md. Download or install the skill to get the whole thing.
In the file
SKILL.md4,761 words
Files3
LicenceMIT
Why you can read it

Nothing in a skill executes. The client loads the text and the model follows it, so a skill can be audited the way a runbook is — by reading it.

What it costs in context

Skills are not billed by the call. They are paid for in context: every token the instructions occupy is a token your code, your diff and your conversation cannot use. Here is what this one takes and when it takes it.

≈170
always loaded
The name and description, so the model knows the skill exists and when to reach for it.
23,030
on trigger
The instruction body and 2 supporting files, read only when the skill fires.
11.6%
of a 200k window
Ten skills this size would not fit in the window together.
050k100k150k200k context window

23.2k tokens, estimated from the bundle at four bytes to the token, held for the rest of the session once it triggers. Heavy. Teams tend to install this one per project rather than globally, and load it only when the job comes up.

Servers bill, skills cost

A server charges by the month. A skill charges once per session, in context, and then keeps charging it for as long as the session lives.

Before and after

The same question, put to the same model twice: once as it comes, and once with these instructions loaded.

No worked example has been published for this skill yet.

The procedure it runs

The procedure has not been set out here step by step. It is in the body of its SKILL.md: the start of it is shown above, and the whole file comes with the install.

Prose, not code

These steps are written for a model to follow, not executed by a runtime. It can still be told to skip one, and it will say so when it does.

Servers it uses

None. This skill calls no MCP servers at all.

Everything it needs is in the instructions, so it works in a project with nothing connected — the model reads the file and changes how it works with what it can already reach.

It asks the agent to write files, using whatever file access your client already has. Whether it reaches the network is not declared.

What it asks for
Writes filesyes
Network accessnot declared

Read from the allowed-tools line of this skill’s own SKILL.md. It also asks for Bash, which could do either, so what is not named there is not ruled out. A skill grants no permissions of its own — it can only ask for tools your client already has.

What it will not do

Every skill is narrow, and the useful ones say where they stop. These are the jobs this one is the wrong tool for.

What this skill is not for has not been published here. Nothing is implied by that: it is a section the author has not filled in.

What is in the bundle

3 files, 92.8 kB on disk. A bundle is text throughout: the instructions the model reads, plus the templates it fills in.

  • SKILL.md32.1 kB
  • assets/backend-plan.html37.9 kB
  • references/decision-framework.md22.8 kB
What is not in it

No dependencies and nothing executable: a skill is text the agent reads, so the bundle is 3 files you can review in full before installing. The MIT licence covers the templates and examples as well as the instructions.

Install

Installing copies the bundle into your project. Nothing runs at install time — the files sit on disk until the model reads them.

# Backend Integration · 23.2k tokens when loaded · macOS, Linux mkdir -p .claude/skills && t=$(mktemp -d) && curl -fsSL -o "$t/bundle.tar.gz" https://mcprush.com/api/skills/backend-integration/bundle.tar.gz && tar -xzf "$t/bundle.tar.gz" -C "$t" && [ -d "$t/backend-integration" ] && { [ ! -e .claude/skills/backend-integration ] || { mv .claude/skills/backend-integration "$t/.previous" && echo "Previous copy moved to $t/.previous"; }; } && mv "$t/backend-integration" .claude/skills/ && echo "Installed .claude/skills/backend-integration"
On Windows, or any OS with Node 20+
npx mcprush@latest skill add microsoft/backend-integration

Windows PowerShell says 'running scripts is disabled on this system'? Run Set-ExecutionPolicy -Scope CurrentUser RemoteSigned once, or type npx.cmd instead of npx (codex.cmd, gemini.cmd, grok.cmd likewise). PowerShell 7 needs neither. Writes to .claude/skills/backend-integration/ in the current project. For every project instead, run mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && t=$(mktemp -d) && curl -fsSL -o "$t/bundle.tar.gz" https://mcprush.com/api/skills/backend-integration/bundle.tar.gz && tar -xzf "$t/bundle.tar.gz" -C "$t" && [ -d "$t/backend-integration" ] && { [ ! -e ~/.claude/skills/backend-integration ] || { mv ~/.claude/skills/backend-integration "$t/.previous" && echo "Previous copy moved to $t/.previous"; }; } && mv "$t/backend-integration" ~/.claude/skills/ && echo "Installed ~/.claude/skills/backend-integration" (macOS, Linux) — or add --global to the npx line. The curl line replaces .claude/skills/backend-integration/ only after the download succeeds, so files left there by another skill of the same name, or by an older release, do not mix in. A copy already there is moved aside, not deleted, and the line prints where. It appears as integrate-backend in Gemini CLI, Codex, Copilot and Grok (its own name); Claude Code lists it by the folder name, backend-integration.

Which clients pick it up on their own

A skill is a folder of text. Most of these read a skills folder and pick it up without being told; the rest take the same folder another way — an upload in the app, a parameter on an API call — and then choose it by its description just the same.

Claude Code.claude/skills/
Claude DesktopCustomize › Skills
ChatGPTSkills › Create › Upload
Cursor.cursor/skills/
VS Code.github/skills/
Codex CLI.agents/skills/
Gemini CLI.gemini/skills/
Grok Build.grok/skills/
Microsoft CopilotSkills › Upload a skill
PerplexityComputer › Skills › Upload a skill
DeepSeek Harness.dsh/skills/
Zed.agents/skills/
Devin Desktop.devin/skills/
Windsurf (legacy).windsurf/skills/
OpenAI Agents SDKInstructions or sandbox Skills
HTTP / APIa request parameter
This release
Versionnot versioned
Publishedno release date on file
PriceFree
Referencemicrosoft/backend-integration

Versions

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