backend

name	backend
description	Use when the request is broadly about backend runtime, API routes, services, agents, or protocol package behavior and the correct backend specialist skill is not yet clear.

Hussh Backend Skill

Purpose and Trigger

• Primary scope: backend-intake
• Trigger on broad backend requests across runtime routes, services, agents, protocol docs, tests, and package surfaces.
• Avoid overlap with security-audit, repo-operations, and repo-context.

Coverage and Ownership

• Role: owner
• Owner family: backend

Owned repo surfaces:

1. consent-protocol/api
2. consent-protocol/hushh_mcp
3. consent-protocol/tests
4. consent-protocol/docs
5. consent-protocol/scripts
6. packages/hushh-mcp

Non-owned surfaces:

1. docs-governance
2. security-audit
3. repo-operations

Do Use

1. Broad backend intake before the correct backend spoke is clear.
2. Requests spanning API routes, service boundaries, backend tests, agents, and backend package surfaces.
3. Choosing whether the work belongs to runtime governance, API contracts, agents/operons, or the MCP developer surface.

Do Not Use

1. Trust, IAM, vault, or audit work where security is the primary domain.
2. CI/deploy/env parity work that belongs to repo-operations.
3. Broad repo mapping before the domain itself is known.

Read First

1. consent-protocol/README.md
2. consent-protocol/docs/README.md
3. docs/reference/architecture/architecture.md
4. docs/project_context_map.md

Workflow

1. Decide whether the task belongs to runtime governance, API contracts, agents/operons, or the MCP developer surface.
2. Keep backend docs, tests, and boundary contracts aligned when the underlying rule changes.
3. Route IAM, consent, vault, PKM, and audit-heavy issues into security-audit when those are the real ownership surface.
4. If the user explicitly wants a visible OS terminal window, prefer ./bin/hushh terminal backend --mode local --reload as the primary backend path.
5. Local runtime uses three separate terminals (no combined stack command): ./bin/hushh proxy --mode local, ./bin/hushh backend --mode local --reload, and ./bin/hushh web --mode local. Use the ./bin/hushh terminal proxy|backend|web wrappers only when a visible OS terminal window is explicitly preferred.

Handoff Rules

1. Route route and service-boundary work to backend-runtime-governance.
2. Route proxy/backend contract work to backend-api-contracts.
3. Route agents, operons, and ADK surfaces to backend-agents-operons.
4. Route @hushh/mcp and developer API/package work to mcp-developer-surface.
5. If the task begins as a cross-domain scan, start with repo-context.

Required Checks

./bin/hushh protocol --help
cd consent-protocol && python3 -m pytest tests -q