system-design-skill

A software-architecture review tool that examines a repository, clarifies requirements, calculates capacity needs, and compares different system designs. It produces an interactive report, a structured design file, and a lasting design document.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess a repository's current architecture, close unanswered design requirements, plan for capacity, and record a recommended system design.
Why use it?
It turns an existing codebase and incomplete requirements into a documented comparison of architecture choices, including their expected scale and trade-offs.

Plugin for Claude Code

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.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add pinchen147/system-design-skill
agentmods
npx agentmods add plugins/pinchen147/system-design-skill/system-design-skill
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/pinchen147/system-design-skill

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session not measured What this adds to a session before it is invoked.
When invoked not measured Not applicable: nothing here is loaded into a session.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Security

Grade A, and why

system-design-skill 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 2d 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-plugin/plugin.json · 21 lines

What it actually says

{
  "name": "system-design-skill",
  "version": "1.1.1",
  "description": "Reads a repository as its current architecture, closes the open requirements, runs the capacity math, and compares structurally distinct candidates before recommending one. Outputs an interactive HTML report, a structured design.json, and a durable DESIGN.md.",
  "author": {
    "name": "Pin Chen",
    "url": "https://github.com/pinchen147"
  },
  "homepage": "https://github.com/pinchen147/system-design-skill",
  "repository": "https://github.com/pinchen147/system-design-skill",
  "license": "MIT",
  "keywords": [
    "system-design",
    "software-architecture",
    "distributed-systems",
    "agent-skills",
    "capacity-planning"
  ],
  "skills": ["./skills/system-design"]
}
Files

What ships with it

1 file beside plugin.json in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 2d ago First seen · 21 lines scan A 2f9ed4c1bae5

Subscribe to this mod's changes

system-design-skill is a plugin published in the GitHub repository pinchen147/system-design-skill (22 stars, last pushed 21d ago), licensed MIT. Its token cost is not measured: this kind of file is read by the harness, not the model. 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.