architecture-paradigms

architecture-paradigms is a skill for Claude Code from athola/claude-night-market. It costs 33 tokens per session (1,950 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A decision guide that compares software architecture patterns and routes you to the pattern that best matches a system’s needs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when starting a system or comparing architecture options, then follow the selected pattern’s guidance for design and implementation.
Why use it?
It helps teams choose an architecture before implementation by considering factors such as team structure, traffic, real-time processing, testing, and legacy constraints.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the archetypes plugin — 15 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it when starting a system or comparing architecture options, then follow the selected pattern’s guidance for design and implementation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/athola/claude-night-market/architecture-paradigms
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.

Any agent
npx skills add athola/claude-night-market --skill architecture-paradigms
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.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 33 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,950 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
How audits are shown
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 $0.00033 $0.01950
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00975
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00390
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00195

Measured 9d ago against content hash 02fd82cb123d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

architecture-paradigms 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-paradigms/SKILL.md · 180 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 180 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

When NOT To Use

  • The paradigm is already chosen, so go straight to that paradigm's skill
  • Reviewing an existing design against its ADRs (use pensive:architecture-review)

Table of Contents

Architecture Paradigm Router

This skill helps you select the right architecture paradigm(s) for your system, then routes you to the specific paradigm skill for implementation details.

Quick Scenario Router

Match your needs to the recommended paradigm:

Your Scenario Primary Paradigm Load Skill
Enterprise app with multiple teams Microservices or Modular Monolith architecture-paradigm-microservices or architecture-paradigm-modular-monolith
Complex business rules & testing Functional Core, Imperative Shell architecture-paradigm-functional-core
Real-time/event processing Event-Driven Architecture architecture-paradigm-event-driven
Legacy system modernization Hexagonal (Ports & Adapters) architecture-paradigm-hexagonal
Cloud-native/bursty workloads Serverless architecture-paradigm-serverless
ETL/data processing pipeline Pipeline Architecture architecture-paradigm-pipeline
Simple CRUD app Layered Architecture architecture-paradigm-layered
Command/query separation CQRS and Event Sourcing architecture-paradigm-cqrs-es
Rich business rules to model Domain-Driven Design architecture-paradigm-domain-driven

One of these is not like the others. Domain-Driven Design answers "what are the concepts and what do we call them." The rest answer "where does the code go." DDD composes with a structural paradigm (commonly layered, hexagonal, or modular monolith) rather than competing with it, so selecting it does not mean deselecting one of the others.

Read the full file on GitHub · 180 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. 9d ago First seen · 180 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A 02fd82cb123d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

architecture-paradigms is a skill published in the GitHub repository athola/claude-night-market (337 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 1,950 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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