system-design

system-design is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from atstaeff/ai-agents. It costs 21 tokens per session (129 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to planning software systems that solve current problems while leaving room for future changes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when planning architecture, weighing trade-offs, and making decisions about how software components should work together.
Why use it?
It helps compare design choices and avoid building a system that is difficult or expensive to adapt.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it when planning architecture, weighing trade-offs, and making decisions about how software components should work together.

Compare 6 skills from other repositories ↓
Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/atstaeff/ai-agents/system-design
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 atstaeff/ai-agents --skill system-design
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/atstaeff/ai-agents

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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.

agentmods badge for system-design

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/atstaeff/ai-agents/system-design/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/atstaeff/ai-agents/system-design)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/atstaeff/ai-agents/system-design"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/atstaeff/ai-agents/system-design/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for system-design

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/atstaeff/ai-agents/system-design"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/atstaeff/ai-agents/system-design.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 21 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 129 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 $0.00021 $0.00129
Opus 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00052
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00004 $0.00026
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00013

Measured 12d ago against content hash 4cf21ad453da, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

system-design 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 12d 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.

skills/system-design/SKILL.md · 21 lines

What it actually says

System Design

Workflow

  1. Establish use cases, scale, data lifecycle and quality requirements before choosing components.
  2. Use architecture-planning for a compact option comparison and decision.
  3. Keep topology as simple as the needs allow and verify the riskiest assumption.

Completion

Return the concrete result, verification evidence and any material unresolved limitation. Keep documentation proportional to the change and preserve human feedback.

Select a focused topic

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md 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. 12d ago Changed · +1 lines · +3 tokens per session 4cf21ad453da
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 20 lines · 18 tokens per session scan A c3e547fa08a3

Subscribe to this mod's changes

system-design is a skill published in the GitHub repository atstaeff/ai-agents (3 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 21 tokens to every session and 129 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-08-31.

Related

Other skills, from other repositories

local-ai-agents

Build local-first AI agents that run entirely on a developer workstation with Microsoft Foundry Local and Qwen function-calling models. Covers Small Language Models (SLMs), the OpenAI-compatible local endpoint, sandboxed local tools, local RAG with Chroma, local MCP servers, hybrid cloud/local routing, and the…

microsoft/ai-agents-for-beginners · 200 tokens

next-cache-components-adoption

Turn on Cache Components in a Next.js app and resolve the blocking routes it surfaces. Use when the user wants to enable, adopt, or migrate to Cache Components, flip the cacheComponents flag, work through a flood of blocking-prerender / instant validation errors, run the cache-components-instant-false codemod, or…

vercel/next.js · 95 tokens

chat-pet-sprite-creation

Use when creating or changing VS Code chat pet sprite art, sprite sheets, state animations, eye treatments, Stable/Insiders variants, or pet transitions under src/vs/workbench/contrib/chat/browser/widget/media/chatPet.

microsoft/vscode · 53 tokens

cpu-profile-analysis

Analyze V8/Chrome CPU profiles (.cpuprofile) and DevTools trace files (Trace-.json). Use when: profiling performance, investigating slow functions, comparing code paths, finding bottlenecks, analyzing timeToRequest, understanding call trees from sampling profiler data, analyzing layout/paint/rendering, investigating…

microsoft/vscode · 71 tokens

insight-error-page

Write or audit an insight-kind error page for the Next.js dev overlay. Use when creating a new errors/ .mdx page, auditing an existing one, or checking that a page matches the framework fix cards. Covers page structure, title alignment, FixCard cards with Copy prompt button, code snippets, terminology verification…

vercel/next.js · 83 tokens

next-cache-components-optimizer

Optimize the meaningful UI available immediately from a Next.js route on an initial load (hard navigation) or named client-side navigation (soft navigation). Encode the goal as a failing @next/playwright instant() e2e and work it to green, one verified route and entry point at a time; the shipped test then guards…

vercel/next.js · 123 tokens