architecture-paradigm-domain-driven

architecture-paradigm-domain-driven is a skill for Claude Code from athola/claude-night-market. It costs 26 tokens per session (2,140 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A software design approach that models a business using its own language, rules, and concepts. It divides complex areas into bounded contexts, meaning clearly defined parts of the business with their own models.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to identify domain concepts, define shared terminology, separate business areas, and design models with input from the people who do the work.
Why use it?
It helps developers build software that matches how the business actually works and avoids imposing structures that do not fit. It is useful when real business rules are important to the system.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the archetypes plugin — 15 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to identify domain concepts, define shared terminology, separate business areas, and design models with input from the people who do the work.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/athola/claude-night-market/architecture-paradigm-domain-driven
Install

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Any agent
npx skills add athola/claude-night-market --skill architecture-paradigm-domain-driven
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/athola/claude-night-market

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install archetypes, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 15 skills.

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Per session 26 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,140 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
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Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00026 $0.02140
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.01070
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00428
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00214

Measured 9d ago against content hash 4823eff06491, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

architecture-paradigm-domain-driven 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 9d 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.

plugins/archetypes/skills/architecture-paradigm-domain-driven/SKILL.md · 233 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 233 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

The Domain-Driven Design Paradigm

Design for the future, build for now.

DDD is modeling a business in the business's own language. The goal is not to avoid structure. It is to avoid structure you cannot back out of, and to defer structure you do not yet need.

What DDD Is

Ubiquitous language, bounded contexts, and a model built by talking to the people who do the work. The measure of a domain model is whether a person in the business would recognize their own job in it.

What DDD Is Not

Clean Architecture. Mandatory layering. A mapper between every tier. A count of design patterns applied before the first line of business logic is written.

These are DDD-adjacent choices. Each has its own justification, and none of them is entailed by DDD. Wanting to decouple an API from the domain is a good reason to add a DTO. "This is what DDD requires" is not, because it does not.

Strategic Design Is The Core

The building blocks are not the point, and this is not the repo's opinion. Evans said so himself, ten years after the book, about the book:

"things like the entities and value objects [..] [People] come away thinking that that's really the core of DDD, whereas, in fact, it's really not."

"I really think that the way I arranged the book gives people the wrong emphasis, so that's the biggest part of what I do is rearrange those things."

Source: SE-Radio Episode 226, "Eric Evans on Domain-Driven Design at 10 Years" (video). Quotes as transcribed by The Core of Domain-Driven Design, which also cites his DDD Europe 2016 keynote criticizing the "over-emphasis on building blocks."

What the core actually is: discovering subdomains and drawing bounded contexts, in language the business already speaks. Entities, value objects, and aggregates are how a model reaches code once it exists. They are the translation, not the thing being translated.

Read the full file on GitHub · 233 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

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  1. 9d ago First seen · 233 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A 4823eff06491

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architecture-paradigm-domain-driven is a skill published in the GitHub repository athola/claude-night-market (337 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 2,140 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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