# replica-backend

Builds the backend of an app clone: auth, database migrations and access rules, Stripe payments, email and background jobs. Reads replica/architecture.md and keeps a checklist in replica/backend.md.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 613 installs · ★ 5557
- Author: Jakeschincariol
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/Jakeschincariol/replica-skill/tree/HEAD/replica-backend/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-03
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/replica-backend

## What it does

The skill works from the map left by recon: it reads `replica/architecture.md`, writes migrations and server code, and keeps `replica/backend.md` up to date with the checklist ticked. Auth covers email sign up with verification, password reset, magic link if the original has one, and OAuth through your own Google or Apple developer apps. Sessions use http-only secure cookies, and roles with teams come with a single function that answers whether this user can do this to this record.

Payments run through Stripe Checkout and the Customer Portal; card forms are not built. Webhooks verify the signature, store the event id, and every handler is idempotent because Stripe retries. Subscription status lives in your database, updated by webhooks. Cancelling takes one click, and hard-to-cancel billing is a top complaint about most apps and illegal in many places.

You create the accounts and keys. The skill never signs up for services and never types a password or a live key: you set up the Stripe, Supabase, Resend or Google Cloud project, values go into `.env.local`, and the skill writes `.env.example` listing every variable name with no values. Until deploy, everything stays on Stripe test keys and test cards. Watch the calendar: Google scopes like Calendar need Google's OAuth verification before public launch, which takes weeks, so start it early.

## Requirements
- Works with: Google Workspace, Stripe

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add Jakeschincariol/replica-skill --skill replica-backend -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/replica-backend/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/replica-backend/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add Jakeschincariol/replica-skill --skill replica-backend -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/replica-backend/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add Jakeschincariol/replica-skill --skill replica-backend -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/replica-backend/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install Jakeschincariol/replica-skill replica-backend
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/replica-backend/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add Jakeschincariol/replica-skill --skill replica-backend -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/Jakeschincariol/replica-skill --path replica-backend
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/replica-backend/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add Jakeschincariol/replica-skill --skill replica-backend -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/Jakeschincariol/replica-skill/tree/HEAD/replica-backend/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- ship email sign up with verification and password reset
- write migrations and per-table access rules
- wire Stripe Checkout and handle subscription webhooks
- send transactional email from your own domain
- run background jobs with retries and a dead-letter log

## Example prompts
- add login to my clone
- connect Stripe and set up subscriptions
- set up emails and background jobs

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: replica-backend
description: >-
  Builds the backend of an app clone: auth, database migrations and access
  rules, payments with Stripe, email, background jobs and third-party
  integrations through official APIs only, plus a security checklist. Use when
  the user says "add login", "set up auth", "wire up the database", "add
  payments", "connect Stripe", "add Google Calendar", "send emails",
  "backend for my clone", or when /replica-build is running on fake data.
---

# replica-backend

Reads `replica/architecture.md`. Writes migrations and server code, and keeps
`replica/backend.md` (checklist below) up to date.

## The rules

- **Official, public APIs only, with the user's own keys.** Never call the
  original app's private endpoints, never reuse its OAuth client, never proxy
  through it.
- **The user creates accounts and keys.** Claude never signs up for services,
  never types a password, card or live key. The user creates the Stripe,
  Supabase, Resend or Google Cloud project and puts keys in `.env.local`.
  Claude writes `.env.example` with every variable name and no values.
- **Test mode first.** Stripe test keys and test cards until replica-deploy.

## Auth

- Email sign up with verification, password reset, magic link if the original
  has it. OAuth (Google, Apple) with the user's own developer apps.
- Sessions: http-only secure cookies. Sign out everywhere.
- Roles and teams if the recon map has them: owner, admin, member, with one
  function that answers "can this user do this to this record".
- Account deletion that actually deletes. Apple requires it for apps with
  sign up.

## Database

- Migrations from `architecture.md`, checked in, run by a script.
- Access rules on every table: row level security policies on Supabase, or
  the authorisation function called in every query. Test it: a second user
  must get nothing back.
- Seed script with realistic fake data (no real people).
- Backups on (the host's daily backups count, check they are enabled).

## Payments

- Stripe Checkout for sign up to a plan, the Customer Portal for changes and
  cancelling. Do not build card forms.
- Webhooks: verify the signature, store the event id, make every handler
  idempotent (Stripe retries). Handle `checkout.session.completed`,
```
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