AI skills for Express
AI Coding Skills for Express
Browse the best AI coding skills for Express.js in 2026, typed routes, Zod validation middleware, supertest tests, Prisma integration, and migration to Fastify or Hono. Works with every major AI coding tool.
Short answer
The best AI coding skills for Express are skills-hub's `code-review`, `unit-test` (Vitest + supertest), `api-scaffold` (Express + Zod validation middleware), `db-schema` (Prisma / Drizzle), `secure`, and `migrate` (Express → Fastify or Hono). All portable across major AI coding tools.
Express remains the most-deployed Node.js framework in 2026 even as Fastify and Hono win new projects. The skills below detect your Express stack and emit idiomatic typed routes with Zod validation middleware, proper error-handler ordering, and async-route safety, and can also migrate to Fastify or Hono when you're ready.
Top skills for Express
01code-to-prd
13 installsReverse-engineer any codebase into a complete Product Requirements Document (PRD). Analyzes routes, components, state management, API integrations, and user interactions to produce business-readable documentation detailed enough for engineers or AI agents to fully reconstruct every page and endpoint. Works with frontend frameworks (React, Vue, Angular, Svelte, Next.js, Nuxt), backend frameworks (NestJS, Django, Express, FastAPI), and fullstack applications. Trigger when users mention: generate PRD, reverse-engineer requirements, code to documentation, extract product specs from code, document page logic, analyze page fields and interactions, create a functional inventory, write requirements from an existing codebase, document API endpoints, or analyze backend routes.
Buildfrom Multi-Domain Skills02api-review
10 installsReview API design against REST best practices and internal consistency. Audits naming conventions, HTTP method semantics, status code correctness, pagination and filtering patterns, error response format, versioning strategy, rate limiting, idempotency keys, HATEOAS links, and content negotiation. Works with Express, Fastify, Hono, Flask, Django REST, Spring, Rails, Gin, and any HTTP API framework. Use when you need to review an API, audit REST endpoints, check API consistency, fix HTTP status codes, add pagination, or prepare an API for public release.
Reviewfrom Skills Hub03api-docs
5 installsGenerate OpenAPI 3.1 documentation from your API codebase. Auto-detects Express, Fastify, NestJS, Django, FastAPI, Flask, Rails, Spring, Go, and more. Extracts routes, request/response schemas, auth requirements, and validation rules. Sets up interactive docs with Swagger UI, Redoc, or Scalar. Use when you need API documentation, OpenAPI spec, Swagger docs, endpoint reference, or REST API docs.
Docsfrom Skills Hub04surprise-me
5 installsCreate a delightful, unexpected "wow" experience for the user by dynamically discovering and creatively combining other enabled skills. Triggers when the user says "surprise me" or any request expressing a desire for an unexpected creative showcase. Also triggers when the user is bored, wants inspiration, or asks for "something interesting".
Buildfrom DeerFlow05integration-test
4 installsGenerate integration tests for APIs, databases, and external services. Auto-detects backend stack (Express, Fastify, NestJS, Django, FastAPI, Rails, Go), ORM (Prisma, TypeORM, SQLAlchemy, GORM), and database (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Firestore), then creates tests covering endpoint CRUD, auth flows, DB transactions, and external service failures with proper fixtures and mocks. Self-heals failing tests up to 3 iterations. Use when you need to test API endpoints end-to-end, verify database operations, test service interactions, or validate auth and error handling.
Testfrom Skills Hub06find-skills
4 installsHelps users discover and install agent skills when they ask questions like "how do I do X", "find a skill for X", "is there a skill that can...", or express interest in extending capabilities. This skill should be used when the user is looking for functionality that might exist as an installable skill.
Healthcarefrom OpenClaw Medical07api-scaffold
3 installsScaffold a production-ready backend REST API -- generate a complete server project with routes, controllers, service layer, repository pattern, database models with migrations, JWT authentication with RBAC, request validation, global error handling with custom error classes, structured JSON logging, rate limiting, CORS, health check endpoint, OpenAPI/Swagger documentation, multi-stage Dockerfile, and docker-compose with PostgreSQL and Redis. Supports Fastify 5, NestJS, Express, FastAPI, Django REST, Gin, Chi, Echo, and Rails -- auto-detects framework from context. Build a backend, create an API, generate server, scaffold REST service, new backend project.
Buildfrom Skills Hub08find-skills
2 installsHelps users discover and install agent skills when they ask questions like "how do I do X", "find a skill for X", "is there a skill that can...", or express interest in extending capabilities. This skill should be used when the user is looking for functionality that might exist as an installable skill.
Buildfrom DeerFlow09wechat-article-search-api-skill
1 installsThis skill helps users extract full article contents from WeChat using the BrowserAct API. The Agent should proactively apply this skill when users express needs like finding full WeChat articles for specific keywords, tracking WeChat public accounts for industry trends, extracting WeChat article contents for media research, monitoring public relations on WeChat platforms, collecting competitor updates from WeChat, getting full article body from WeChat links, monitoring brand exposure on WeChat articles, retrieving structured WeChat data for sentiment analysis, summarizing daily news from WeChat, getting author and publication date for WeChat articles, or automating WeChat content extraction without scraping.
Buildfrom BrowserAct10accessibility-lead
1 installsAccessibility team lead and orchestrator. Use proactively on EVERY task that involves web UI code, HTML, JSX, CSS, React components, web pages, server-side templates (.leaf, .ejs, .erb, .hbs), or any user-facing web content. This agent coordinates the accessibility specialist team and ensures no accessibility requirement is missed. Runs the final review before any UI code is considered complete. Applies to any web framework, server-side templating framework (Vapor/Leaf, Rails/ERB, Django/Jinja, Express/EJS), or vanilla HTML/CSS/JS. Works alongside other team leads (e.g., swift-lead) in multi-language projects.
Buildfrom Accessibility Agents11contract-test
1 installsGenerate consumer-driven contract tests for APIs. Auto-detects framework (Express, Fastify, NestJS, Django, FastAPI, Go), selects Pact, OpenAPI validation, or schema snapshots, verifies backward compatibility, catches breaking changes before deploy, and configures CI verification. Use when you need to validate API schemas, prevent breaking changes, verify backward compatibility, or set up consumer-driven contracts.
Testfrom Skills Hub12google-news-api-skill
1 installsThis skill helps users automatically extract structured news data from Google News via BrowserAct API. Agent should proactively apply this skill when users express needs like searching for news about a specific topic, tracking industry trends, monitoring public relations or sentiment, collecting competitor updates, getting latest reports on specific keywords, monitoring brand exposure in media, researching market hot topics, summarizing daily industry news, tracking media activities of specific individuals, retrieving hot events from the past 24 hours, extracting structured data for market research, monitoring global breaking news.
Buildfrom BrowserAct13youtube-api-skill
1 installsThis skill helps users automatically extract detailed video metrics and channel information from YouTube based on keyword searches using the BrowserAct API. The Agent should proactively apply this skill when users express needs such as extract specific keyword YouTube video detailed data, monitor the latest video performance of competitor channels, collect comment and like counts for videos on a specific topic, find AI agent tutorials published this week and extract metrics, evaluate total views and subscriber info for specific videos, scrape detailed metrics of marketing campaign videos, track video trends for a tech topic periodically, get high quality video list data for specified keywords on YouTube, mine detailed information of the latest YouTube videos, collect video duration and engagement data for specific industries, or monitor YouTube content creator performance metrics.
Buildfrom BrowserAct14social-media-finder-skill
1 installsThis skill helps users automatically find social media profiles across platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, etc. using the BrowserAct API. Agent should proactively apply this skill when users express needs like finding someone's social media accounts, discovering a brand's social media presence, tracking down social profiles of job candidates, finding contact info for sales prospects, researching a person's digital footprint, verifying the identity of someone met online, monitoring the social media reach of influencers, checking social accounts of business competitors, gathering public profiles for background research, locating official customer service accounts across platforms, or compiling contact databases for networking.
Buildfrom BrowserAct15youtube-batch-transcript-extractor-api-skill
1 installsThis skill helps users automatically extract YouTube video transcripts and metadata in batch via the BrowserAct API. The Agent should proactively apply this skill when users express needs like batch extract full transcripts from YouTube videos for specific keywords, scrape YouTube subtitles for a list of videos, get batch video metadata and likes counts for analysis, automate YouTube search and subtitle extraction, collect multiple video transcripts published this week, download bulk YouTube video subtitles without writing crawler scripts, build a dataset of transcripts from top YouTube videos, extract YouTube video URLs and publisher info in batch, gather full video content for AI summarization pipelines, monitor recent YouTube videos and extract their transcripts, batch retrieve structured subtitle data for media research, extract transcripts from trending YouTube content automatically.
Buildfrom BrowserAct16amazon-reviews-api-skill
1 installsThis skill helps users automatically extract Amazon product reviews via the Amazon Reviews API. Agent should proactively apply this skill when users express needs like getting reviews for Amazon product with ASIN B07TS6R1SF, analyzing customer feedback for a specific Amazon item, getting ratings and comments for a competitive product, tracking sentiment of recent Amazon reviews, extracting verified purchase reviews for quality assessment, summarizing user experiences from Amazon product pages, monitoring product performance through customer reviews, collecting reviewer profiles and links for market research, gathering review titles and descriptions for content analysis, scraping Amazon reviews without requiring a login.
Buildfrom BrowserAct17flowstudio-power-automate-debug
Debug failing Power Automate cloud flows using the FlowStudio MCP server. The Graph API only shows top-level status codes. This skill gives your agent action-level inputs and outputs to find the actual root cause. Load this skill when asked to: debug a flow, investigate a failed run, why is this flow failing, inspect action outputs, find the root cause of a flow error, fix a broken Power Automate flow, diagnose a timeout, trace a DynamicOperationRequestFailure, check connector auth errors, read error details from a run, or troubleshoot expression failures. Requires a FlowStudio MCP subscription — see https://mcp.flowstudio.app
Buildfrom GitHub Copilot18offensive-cicd-pipeline
Comprehensive CI/CD pipeline exploitation methodology covering GitHub Actions injection vectors (expression injection via PR titles and issue bodies, workflow_run event abuse, GITHUB_TOKEN over-scoping, composite action supply chain compromise), Jenkins attack paths (Groovy sandbox escapes, script console remote code execution, Java remoting deserialization, credential store dumping, shared library injection), GitLab CI exploitation (YAML anchor injection, runner registration token abuse, CI variable extraction, protected branch bypass via merge request pipelines), and Azure DevOps pipeline agent compromise with service connection theft. Includes artifact poisoning techniques across all platforms, tooling guidance for gato and jenkins-attack-framework, and maps to MITRE ATT&CK T1195.002 (Supply Chain Compromise: Compromise Software Supply Chain). Covers enumeration of pipeline configurations, privilege escalation from contributor to code execution, lateral movement through pipeline tru
Buildfrom Claude-Red
Frequently asked questions
Do AI skills handle Express middleware ordering?
Yes. The code-review skill flags common mistakes, body-parser ordering, error handlers in the wrong slot, async handlers without next(error) propagation, and the api-scaffold skill emits them in the right order.
Can AI migrate Express to Fastify or Hono?
Yes via the migrate skill. It maps Express middleware to Fastify hooks or Hono middleware functions, rewrites route handlers, and updates types. Tests run against both old and new to catch regressions.
What's the best AI tool for Express?
Any of them. Express is the best-represented JS backend in every model's training data, so all major AI coding tools handle it well.
Should I start a new project in Express or Fastify in 2026?
Fastify or Hono for new projects, faster, better TypeScript support, OpenAPI generation, no Express 4 vs 5 churn. Express remains right when you're maintaining an existing app or your team is deeply familiar with it.