# Backend middleware (/scaffold--middleware)

/scaffold--middleware is a Claude Code skill in the Code section. Generates middleware for authentication, authorization, validation, logging, rate limiting or error handling in your project's web framework.

- Web version: https://skills.sgomez.dev/en/s/scaffold--middleware
- Section: [Code](https://skills.sgomez.dev/en/code.md)
- Author: Santiago Gómez de la Torre
- License: MIT
- Source: https://github.com/sgomez-dev/claude-skills/blob/main/skills/scaffold/middleware.md
- Updated 26 Mar 2026

## How to ask for it

- `/scaffold--middleware create a JWT authentication middleware`
- `/scaffold--middleware I need a request validation middleware`
- `/scaffold--middleware generate a logging middleware for my API`

## Install

macOS · Linux:

```
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sgomez-dev/claude-skills/main/install.sh | bash
```

Windows:

```
irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sgomez-dev/claude-skills/main/install.ps1 | iex
```

Claude Code plugin:

```
/plugin marketplace add sgomez-dev/claude-skills
/plugin install scaffold-skills@claude-skills-collection
```

## Permissions

- Reads: `**/*`
- Writes: `**/*`
- Runs: —
- Network: No
- Destructive: No

## Author's description

Generate middleware for authentication, logging, validation, etc.

- [How we review this](https://skills.sgomez.dev/en/methodology.md)