patterns-of-enterprise-application-architecture

patterns-of-enterprise-application-architecture is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ciembor/agent-rules-books. It costs 38 tokens per session (174 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to common ways of structuring business applications. It explains layers, service layers, transaction scripts, domain models, repositories, data mappers, units of work, and data-transfer objects.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when designing application architecture, separating business logic from storage, choosing repository or service patterns, or moving data between system boundaries.
Why use it?
It helps choose a clear place for business rules, database access, and data conversion. This can prevent application code from becoming tightly coupled or difficult to change.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it when designing application architecture, separating business logic from storage, choosing repository or service patterns, or moving data between system boundaries.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ciembor/agent-rules-books/patterns-of-enterprise-application-architecture
About the project

agent-rules-books is a collection of Markdown rules and skills that guide AI coding agents using principles from books on software design, refactoring, architecture, domain-driven design, reliability, and data systems. Developers use the rules with Codex, Cursor, Claude Code, and other compatible agents to shape how they perform coding tasks. The catalogue skills package these rule sets for installation and use by coding agents.

ciembor/agent-rules-books · 2,741 stars · on GitHub · ciembor.github.io

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 ciembor/agent-rules-books --skill patterns-of-enterprise-application-architecture
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ciembor/agent-rules-books

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 38 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 174 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 $0.00038 $0.00174
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00087
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00035
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00017

Measured yesterday against content hash fa705698efa8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

patterns-of-enterprise-application-architecture 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 yesterday.

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.

patterns-of-enterprise-application-architecture/SKILL.md · 12 lines

What it actually says

Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture Skill

Use this skill when a task involves enterprise application structure, layering, service layer, transaction script, domain model, data mapper, repository, unit of work, identity map, DTOs, or integration patterns.

Before making design or code decisions, read and apply patterns-of-enterprise-application-architecture.mini.md. Use patterns-of-enterprise-application-architecture.md only as a deeper reference when the mini rules are not enough for the current enterprise-pattern tradeoff.

Files

What ships with it

3 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. yesterday First seen · 12 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A fa705698efa8

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patterns-of-enterprise-application-architecture is a skill published in the GitHub repository ciembor/agent-rules-books (2,741 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 174 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 2026-09-09.

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