design-patterns

design-patterns is a skill for Claude Code from CasLubbers/code-design-skills. It costs 0 tokens per session (795 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A guide to the 23 Gang of Four design patterns, which are common ways to structure object-oriented software. It covers their purpose, suitability, trade-offs, and simpler alternatives.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for choosing a design pattern, identifying an existing structure, or refactoring code toward one.
Why use it?
It helps developers decide whether a pattern fits instead of adding structure that costs more than it helps.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the code-design-skills plugin — 28 skills shipped together

Good fit It is for choosing a design pattern, identifying an existing structure, or refactoring code toward one.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/caslubbers/code-design-skills/design-patterns
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 CasLubbers/code-design-skills --skill design-patterns
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/CasLubbers/code-design-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install code-design-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 28 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.

agentmods badge for design-patterns

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/caslubbers/code-design-skills/design-patterns"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/caslubbers/code-design-skills/design-patterns.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 795 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 unknown 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 $0.00000 $0.00795
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00398
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00159
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00080

Measured 7d ago against content hash e7c35bdd3656, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

design-patterns 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 7d 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/design-patterns/SKILL.md · 57 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

Read it on GitHub

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. 7d ago First seen · 57 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A e7c35bdd3656

Subscribe to this mod's changes

design-patterns is a skill published in the GitHub repository CasLubbers/code-design-skills (1 stars, last pushed 13d ago), with no licence file. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 795 tokens. 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.