system-design-integration-patterns

system-design-integration-patterns is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from HoangNguyen0403/agent-skills-standard. It costs 62 tokens per session (830 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for choosing patterns that let distributed software services exchange data and change independently. It explains options such as an outbox, CQRS, event sourcing, sagas, leader election, sidecars, and translation layers.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when services must stay consistent across a boundary, when a transaction spans services, when legacy systems need isolation, or when jobs, reads, writes, and events need different designs.
Why use it?
It connects each pattern to a specific problem and states the operational cost it adds. This helps teams choose based on a real constraint instead of adopting architecture by habit.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Good fit Use it when services must stay consistent across a boundary, when a transaction spans services, when legacy systems need isolation, or when jobs, reads, writes, and events need different designs.

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Any agent
npx skills add HoangNguyen0403/agent-skills-standard --skill system-design-integration-patterns
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/HoangNguyen0403/agent-skills-standard

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Per session 62 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 830 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

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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 $0.00062 $0.00830
Opus 5 $0.00031 $0.00415
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00166
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00083

Measured 13d ago against content hash 471d75bdf0c9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

system-design-integration-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 13d 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.

.agents/skills/system-design/system-design-integration-patterns/SKILL.md · 65 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 65 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Integration Patterns

Priority: P1 (HIGH)

Each pattern buys one guarantee and charges operational complexity. Adopt on evidence, not on architecture fashion.

Selection Table

Constraint observed Pattern Cost accepted
A write must update the database and publish an event atomically Transactional outbox A relay (poller or CDC) to run and monitor
Read shape and write shape have diverged and one model serves neither CQRS Two models, sync lag, doubled tests
The sequence of changes is itself the product (audit, replay, temporal queries) Event sourcing Projections, event versioning, no easy delete
A business transaction spans services and cannot hold a lock Saga with compensations Compensating action per step; no isolation
Exactly one instance may run a job or own a resource Leader election (lease-based) Fencing tokens; split-brain handling
Cross-cutting concerns repeated in every service Sidecar or ambassador Another process per pod to operate
A legacy or third-party model would infect the domain Anti-corruption layer A translation layer to maintain
Each client surface needs a different aggregate shape Backends-for-frontends One backend per surface, owned by that team
A monolith must be replaced without a rewrite freeze Strangler fig Dual routing and a live seam until the last slice moves

Consistency Across a Boundary

  • Never dual-write. Write to your own store, then publish from the outbox or CDC stream; anything else drifts silently.
  • Saga orchestration puts the sequence in one coordinator: use it beyond ~4 steps, or when compensations must be reasoned about together.
  • Saga choreography lets each service react to events: use it for short flows between 2-3 services that already publish.
  • Every saga step needs its compensation defined before implementation. A step with no compensation is a step that must move to the end or become idempotent-retryable.
  • Correlate everything: one id threads the whole flow through logs, events, and compensations.

Read the full file on GitHub · 65 lines

Files

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1 file 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. 13d ago First seen · 65 lines · 62 tokens per session scan A 471d75bdf0c9

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system-design-integration-patterns is a skill published in the GitHub repository HoangNguyen0403/agent-skills-standard (565 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 62 tokens to every session and 830 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.

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