load-bearing

load-bearing is a skill for Claude Code from IamK77/Skill. It costs 33 tokens per session (636 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide to making the important structural choices in a software system, such as its architecture, technology stack, module boundaries, interfaces, and data model.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when planning a new system or reshaping an existing one. It helps decide how parts should fit together, what rules they share, and which choices need careful review.
Why use it?
It helps separate decisions that are expensive to change—such as stored data and public interfaces—from code that can be reorganized later. This keeps human attention on choices that could cause lasting problems.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Part of the engineering plugin — 10 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it when planning a new system or reshaping an existing one. It helps decide how parts should fit together, what rules they share, and which choices need careful review.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/iamk77/skill/load-bearing
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 IamK77/Skill --skill load-bearing
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/IamK77/Skill

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install engineering, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills.

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Per session 33 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 636 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 $0.00033 $0.00636
Opus 5.5 $0.00013 $0.00254
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00127
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00064

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 7a6bb00361ba, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

load-bearing 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.

skills/engineering/load-bearing/SKILL.md · 60 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 60 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

load-bearing

Explore alternative software architectures through boundaries, reversibility, and borrowed models. Use when the design space is still open, not for a mandatory architecture audit.

Starting point

An architecture is a distribution of future choices. Instead of asking which pattern is correct, imagine which changes each pattern makes easy, awkward, or impossible.

Bring a question, fragment, reference, or tension. Follow whichever association becomes useful; these invitations are not a sequence to complete. Speculation should remain distinguishable from an observed fact.

Thought experiments

Borrow a different institution

Treat the system as a library, a marketplace, then a postal service. What becomes the catalogue, the negotiation, or the address? Transfer one structural relation, not the entire metaphor.

Remove an assumed centre

Imagine the database, coordinator, or shared model vanished. Sketch how work could still happen. Then bring the centre back only where the alternative genuinely needs it.

Change the time horizon

Draw the design for a one-week experiment and for a ten-year institution. The disagreement can reveal a reversible seam rather than a compromise architecture.

A possible turn

A shared customer object ties billing, support, and identity together. A passport analogy suggests separate local records with narrow attestations; a workshop analogy instead suggests one working record with explicit custody. These are two different boundaries to explore, not two boxes to tick.

Leave the space open

Offer a few genuinely different possibilities, a sketch, an analogy, or a sharper question when useful. Do not turn every prompt into a scored diagnostic, a completion gate, or a demand for an action plan. The human may choose a direction, combine them, or leave the question open.

Read the full file on GitHub · 60 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. 1mo ago Changed · -115 lines · -105 tokens per session 7a6bb00361ba
  2. 2mo ago First seen · 175 lines · 138 tokens per session scan A c4509a5f2d1f

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load-bearing is a skill published in the GitHub repository IamK77/Skill (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 636 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 2026-08-31.

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