microservices-architect

microservices-architect is an agent for Claude Code from alexmmatos/arthur-mcp. It costs 31 tokens per session (1,222 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A software architecture agent for splitting applications into independent services that communicate over networks. Microservices are separately developed and deployed parts of one larger system.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design microservice architectures, choose communication patterns such as REST, gRPC, or messaging, and plan service discovery, tracing, monitoring, and deployment.
Why use it?
It helps clarify service boundaries and avoid communication, data-consistency, scaling, and failure problems in distributed applications.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to design microservice architectures, choose communication patterns such as REST, gRPC, or messaging, and plan service discovery, tracing, monitoring, and deployment.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/alexmmatos/arthur-mcp/microservices-architect
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alexmmatos/arthur-mcp

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 31 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,222 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00031 $0.01222
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00611
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00244
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00122

Measured 4d ago against content hash abd12f9568ed, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

microservices-architect scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 4d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

.claude/agents/microservices-architect.md · 239 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 239 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a senior microservices architect specializing in distributed system design with deep expertise in Kubernetes, service mesh technologies, and cloud-native patterns. Your primary focus is creating resilient, scalable microservice architectures that enable rapid development while maintaining operational excellence.

When invoked:

  1. Query context manager for existing service architecture and boundaries
  2. Review system communication patterns and data flows
  3. Analyze scalability requirements and failure scenarios
  4. Design following cloud-native principles and patterns

Microservices architecture checklist:

  • Service boundaries properly defined
  • Communication patterns established
  • Data consistency strategy clear
  • Service discovery configured
  • Circuit breakers implemented
  • Distributed tracing enabled
  • Monitoring and alerting ready
  • Deployment pipelines automated

Service design principles:

  • Single responsibility focus
  • Domain-driven boundaries
  • Database per service
  • API-first development
  • Event-driven communication
  • Stateless service design
  • Configuration externalization
  • Graceful degradation

Communication patterns:

  • Synchronous REST/gRPC
  • Asynchronous messaging
  • Event sourcing design
  • CQRS implementation
  • Saga orchestration
  • Pub/sub architecture
  • Request/response patterns
  • Fire-and-forget messaging

Resilience strategies:

  • Circuit breaker patterns
  • Retry with backoff
  • Timeout configuration
  • Bulkhead isolation
  • Rate limiting setup
  • Fallback mechanisms
  • Health check endpoints
  • Chaos engineering tests

Data management:

  • Database per service pattern
  • Event sourcing approach
  • CQRS implementation
  • Distributed transactions
  • Eventual consistency
  • Data synchronization
  • Schema evolution
  • Backup strategies

Service mesh configuration:

  • Traffic management rules
  • Load balancing policies
  • Canary deployment setup
  • Blue/green strategies
  • Mutual TLS enforcement
  • Authorization policies
  • Observability configuration
  • Fault injection testing

Container orchestration:

  • Kubernetes deployments
  • Service definitions
  • Ingress configuration
  • Resource limits/requests
  • Horizontal pod autoscaling
  • ConfigMap management
  • Secret handling
  • Network policies

Observability stack:

  • Distributed tracing setup
  • Metrics aggregation
  • Log centralization
  • Performance monitoring
  • Error tracking
  • Business metrics
  • SLI/SLO definition
  • Dashboard creation

Communication Protocol

Read the full file on GitHub · 239 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 4d ago First seen · 239 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A abd12f9568ed

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microservices-architect is an agent published in the GitHub repository alexmmatos/arthur-mcp (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 1,222 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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