designing-architecture

designing-architecture is a skill for Claude Code from CloudAI-X/claude-workflow-v2. It costs 48 tokens per session (1,465 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A software-planning guide for choosing how an application is organised, such as a single application, separate services, or clearly separated modules. It considers project requirements, size, team size, directory structure, and trade-offs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when starting a project, dividing code into modules, selecting between monoliths and microservices, or making other system-design decisions.
Why use it?
It helps avoid choosing an architecture that is too complex, too limited, or difficult for the team to maintain. It also provides a way to document and check the decision.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the claude-workflow-v2 plugin — 14 skills, 26 commands, 7 agents, 6 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it when starting a project, dividing code into modules, selecting between monoliths and microservices, or making other system-design decisions.

Compare 6 skills from other repositories ↓
Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cloudai-x/claude-workflow-v2/designing-architecture
About the project

Project Starter is a workflow plugin that equips coding agents with specialized subagents, reusable skills, commands, hooks, and output styles for software projects. It is for developers who want structured assistance with tasks such as planning, debugging, code review, security, and automation across several coding-agent platforms. Catalogue add-ons are components of its own workflow.

CloudAI-X/claude-workflow-v2 · 1,413 stars · on GitHub

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 CloudAI-X/claude-workflow-v2 --skill designing-architecture
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/CloudAI-X/claude-workflow-v2

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claude-workflow-v2, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 14 skills, 26 commands, 7 agents, 6 hooks.

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 designing-architecture

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/cloudai-x/claude-workflow-v2/designing-architecture/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/cloudai-x/claude-workflow-v2/designing-architecture)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/cloudai-x/claude-workflow-v2/designing-architecture"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/cloudai-x/claude-workflow-v2/designing-architecture/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 designing-architecture

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/cloudai-x/claude-workflow-v2/designing-architecture"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/cloudai-x/claude-workflow-v2/designing-architecture.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 48 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,465 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 $0.00048 $0.01465
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00732
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00293
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00146

Measured 9d ago against content hash 479f4abc528c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

designing-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 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.

skills/designing-architecture/SKILL.md · 230 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 230 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Designing Architecture

When to Load

  • Trigger: System design, module structure, new project scaffolding, choosing architecture patterns
  • Skip: Simple bug fixes or minor code changes that don't affect architecture

Architecture Decision Workflow

Copy this checklist and track progress:

Architecture Design Progress:
- [ ] Step 1: Understand requirements and constraints
- [ ] Step 2: Assess project size and team capabilities
- [ ] Step 3: Select architecture pattern
- [ ] Step 4: Define directory structure
- [ ] Step 5: Document trade-offs and decision
- [ ] Step 6: Validate against decision framework

Pattern Selection Guide

By Project Size

Size Recommended Pattern
Small (<10K LOC) Simple MVC/Layered
Medium (10K-100K) Clean Architecture
Large (>100K) Modular Monolith or Microservices

By Team Size

Team Recommended
1-3 devs Monolith with clear modules
4-10 devs Modular Monolith
10+ devs Microservices (if justified)

Common Patterns

1. Layered Architecture

┌─────────────────────────────┐
│       Presentation          │  ← UI, API Controllers
├─────────────────────────────┤
│       Application           │  ← Use Cases, Services
├─────────────────────────────┤
│         Domain              │  ← Business Logic, Entities
├─────────────────────────────┤
│      Infrastructure         │  ← Database, External APIs
└─────────────────────────────┘

Use when: Simple CRUD apps, small teams, quick prototypes

2. Clean Architecture

┌─────────────────────────────────────┐
│            Frameworks & Drivers      │
│  ┌─────────────────────────────┐    │
│  │     Interface Adapters       │    │
│  │  ┌─────────────────────┐    │    │
│  │  │   Application       │    │    │
│  │  │  ┌─────────────┐    │    │    │
│  │  │  │   Domain    │    │    │    │
│  │  │  └─────────────┘    │    │    │
│  │  └─────────────────────┘    │    │
│  └─────────────────────────────┘    │
└─────────────────────────────────────┘

Read the full file on GitHub · 230 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 · 230 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A 479f4abc528c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

designing-architecture is a skill published in the GitHub repository CloudAI-X/claude-workflow-v2 (1,413 stars, last pushed 14d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 1,465 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 2026-08-30.

Related

Other skills, from other repositories

data-charts-tako

Search and visualize the world's data - get charts, insights, and embeddable knowledge cards for finance, economics, demographics, sports, and more.

gooseworks-ai/goose-skills · 35 tokens

apollo-lead-finder

Two-phase Apollo.io prospecting: free People Search to discover ICP-matching leads, then selective enrichment to reveal emails/phones (credits per contact). Creates Apollo lists. Deduplicates against existing contacts by LinkedIn URL.

gooseworks-ai/goose-skills · 51 tokens

monorepo-management

Master monorepo management with Turborepo, Nx, and pnpm workspaces to build efficient, scalable multi-package repositories with optimized builds and dependency management. Use when setting up monorepos, optimizing builds, or managing shared dependencies.

wshobson/agents · 54 tokens

browse-and-evaluate

Use when exploring the ai-agent-skills catalog to find, compare, and evaluate skills before installing. Always use --fields to limit output size and --dry-run before committing to an install.

MoizIbnYousaf/Ai-Agent-Skills · 43 tokens

render-airdrop-carousel

Assemble a viral iOS "AirDrop" notification-carousel video ad (≈6–8s, 9:16) from a brand line plus 6–16 real product photos — a native AirDrop share-sheet card ("Brand would like to share a · Decline / Accept") springs up and its preview window CYCLES through the products, landing on a range/lineup payoff with an…

gooseworks-ai/goose-skills · 207 tokens

render-3d-product-showcase

Assemble a premium 3D product-showcase ad from a config — four beat clips (an orbiting hero rotation, a macro push-in, a physics reveal, a typographic close) normalized to the brand-color canvas, hard-concatenated in order, closed on a deterministic Playwright brand end card, and mixed under one instrumental bed at…

gooseworks-ai/goose-skills · 159 tokens