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.claude/skills/microservices/SKILL.md

microservices is a skill for Claude Code from cohen-liel/hivemind. It costs 32 tokens per session (1,831 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

Guidance for designing microservices, which are applications split into smaller services that communicate over networks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan service boundaries, API gateways, service-to-service calls, event-driven workflows, and distributed-system layouts.
Why use it?
It helps turn a large application into clearly separated services and addresses communication, routing, service discovery, and shared data formats.

Skill for Claude Code

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When invoked 1,831 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.
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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00032 $0.01831
Opus 5.5 $0.00013 $0.00732
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00366
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00183

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 59b617bb3013, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

microservices 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 1mo 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.

.claude/skills/microservices/SKILL.md · 257 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 257 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Microservices Architecture Patterns

Service Structure

services/
  api-gateway/          # Entry point, routing, auth
  user-service/         # User management, auth
  product-service/      # Products, catalog, inventory
  order-service/        # Orders, checkout flow
  notification-service/ # Email, push, SMS (event-driven)
  payment-service/      # Stripe, billing
shared/
  proto/                # gRPC definitions (if used)
  events/               # Event schemas (Pydantic/TypeScript)
  libs/                 # Shared utilities
docker-compose.yml

API Gateway (FastAPI)

# api-gateway/main.py
import httpx
from fastapi import FastAPI, Request, Depends, HTTPException
from fastapi.middleware.cors import CORSMiddleware

app = FastAPI()
app.add_middleware(CORSMiddleware, allow_origins=["*"], allow_methods=["*"])

SERVICE_URLS = {
    "users": "http://user-service:8001",
    "products": "http://product-service:8002",
    "orders": "http://order-service:8003",
}

@app.api_route("/{service}/{path:path}", methods=["GET", "POST", "PUT", "DELETE", "PATCH"])
async def proxy(service: str, path: str, request: Request, user=Depends(verify_token)):
    if service not in SERVICE_URLS:
        raise HTTPException(404, "Service not found")

    url = f"{SERVICE_URLS[service]}/{path}"
    async with httpx.AsyncClient() as client:
        response = await client.request(
            method=request.method,
            url=url,
            headers={"X-User-Id": str(user.id), "X-User-Role": user.role},
            content=await request.body(),
            params=dict(request.query_params),
            timeout=30,
        )
    return Response(content=response.content, status_code=response.status_code,
                   media_type=response.headers.get("content-type"))

Inter-Service Communication

Synchronous (HTTP)

# Shared HTTP client with circuit breaker
import httpx
from tenacity import retry, stop_after_attempt, wait_exponential

class ServiceClient:
    def __init__(self, base_url: str):
        self.client = httpx.AsyncClient(base_url=base_url, timeout=10)

    @retry(stop=stop_after_attempt(3), wait=wait_exponential(multiplier=1, min=1, max=10))
    async def get(self, path: str, **kwargs):
        response = await self.client.get(path, **kwargs)
        response.raise_for_status()
        return response.json()

# order-service calling user-service
user_client = ServiceClient("http://user-service:8001")

async def get_order_with_user(order_id: str):
    order = await db.orders.find_one(order_id)
    user = await user_client.get(f"/users/{order['user_id']}")  # Retries on failure
    return {**order, "user": user}

Read the full file on GitHub · 257 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

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  1. 1mo ago First seen · 257 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A 59b617bb3013

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microservices is a skill published in the GitHub repository cohen-liel/hivemind (112 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 1,831 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 2026-08-30.

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