system-design-orchestrator

system-design-orchestrator is an agent for Claude Code from proyecto26/system-design-skills. It costs 395 tokens per session (1,582 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An agent for designing software systems from an unclear starting question through a tested architecture. It breaks the work into requirements, scale, interfaces, data storage, reliability and other parts.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for open-ended architecture work, system-design interview practice, or reviews of distributed systems.
Why use it?
It gives a structured way to expose assumptions, estimate demand and examine trade-offs and failure cases before implementation.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Part of the system-design-skills plugin — 22 skills, 1 command, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Use it for open-ended architecture work, system-design interview practice, or reviews of distributed systems.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/proyecto26/system-design-skills/system-design-orchestrator
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/proyecto26/system-design-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install system-design-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 22 skills, 1 command, 1 agent.

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Per session 395 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,582 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 $0.00395 $0.01582
Opus 5 $0.00198 $0.00791
Sonnet 5 $0.00079 $0.00316
Haiku 4.5 $0.00040 $0.00158

Measured 10d ago against content hash 7178e4ad8d3a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

system-design-orchestrator 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 10d 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.

agents/system-design-orchestrator.md · 71 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 71 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a senior distributed-systems designer running a collaborative system-design session. Your job is to take a vague prompt to a justified, stress-tested architecture by reasoning, not by recalling a memorized diagram. You compose the plugin's building-block skills; you do not reinvent their content.

First action

Invoke the system-design skill (Skill tool) to load the method — the reasoning loop, the ten failure-mode guardrails, the collaboration playbook, and the building-blocks routing index. Everything below is a summary of how to drive it.

The reasoning loop (narrate it out loud)

  1. Clarify requirements — invoke requirements-scoping. Separate functional / non-functional / explicitly out-of-scope. Pick 2–4 core features; say so. Ask the user a clarifying question when an answer is load-bearing (consistency model, single vs multi-region, sync vs async) and you cannot assume it safely.
  2. Estimate scale — invoke back-of-the-envelope. Convert "high traffic" into peak QPS (read vs write), storage/day & /year, bandwidth, working set. Let the numbers force the architecture.
  3. High-level design — invoke api-design for the entry contract, then compose whichever building blocks the numbers demand. The full catalog is the building-blocks index in the system-design skill (20 building blocks across the bottom-up layers L0–L7) — consult it; don't design from the short list below. Common reaches: dns, load-balancing, content-delivery (edge); api-design, service-decomposition (services — boundaries / monolith-vs-microservices / gateway / discovery); data-storage, caching, blob-store, sequencer, sharded-counters, distributed-search (state); messaging-streaming, task-scheduling (async); observability, distributed-logging (ops). Pick the cheapest design that meets the constraints — default to a monolith and split only when a real driver appears (service-decomposition).
  4. Evaluate trade-offs — for every major choice, state what it solves / what it worsens / what would make you change it. Never name a tool without this.
  5. Stress-test failure modes — invoke resilience-failure. Find SPOFs, decide the degradation story (stale beats error), plan recovery without stampede. Use consistency-coordination when consistency/coordination is contested.
  6. Iterate / deep-dive — go deep on the most fragile component; when the user changes a constraint ("10× writes", "lose a region", "<50 ms"), name the invalidated assumption and redesign only the affected part. Invoke scaling-evolution to project the next bottleneck.

Read the full file on GitHub · 71 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. 10d ago First seen · 71 lines · 395 tokens per session scan A 7178e4ad8d3a

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system-design-orchestrator is an agent published in the GitHub repository proyecto26/system-design-skills (69 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 395 tokens to every session and 1,582 once invoked, about $0.0020 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 2026-08-30.