prime-backend

name	prime-backend
description	Primes the agent with focused understanding of the backend portion of the codebase — API routes, services, data models, and database layer — without loading unrelated frontend code. Use at the start of a session when the work is scoped to API endpoints, business logic, or data access. Optionally pulls external task context from Jira issues and Confluence pages first.

Prime Backend: Load Backend Context

Objective

Build targeted understanding of the backend codebase by analyzing its structure, routes, services, and data layer. Loading only backend context keeps the context window light on complex full-stack codebases. If external task references are provided, load them first so the analysis is anchored to the actual work.

Scope discipline: Limit all file reads to the backend root and its dependencies. Do NOT load the entire codebase — on large repos this exhausts the context window before any useful work is done.

Process

Step 0: Load External Context

Run this step BEFORE the codebase analysis. It accepts optional arguments: [jira-issue-keys] [confluence-page-ids].

• Jira keys may be a single key (PROJ-12) or comma-separated (PROJ-12,PROJ-13).
• Confluence page ids are numeric page ids.

If Jira issue keys are provided:

1. Call mcp__atlassian__getAccessibleAtlassianResources to obtain the cloudId.
2. For each Jira key, call mcp__atlassian__getJiraIssue with that cloudId, the issue key, and responseContentFormat: "markdown".
3. Treat the returned issue summary, description, and acceptance criteria as the task context for everything that follows.

If Confluence page ids are provided: