microservices-architect

microservices-architect is a skill for Claude Code from jdanigo/hydraia. It costs 75 tokens per session (1,501 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of microservices-architect, MIT.

A guide to designing systems as multiple independently deployable services, often called microservices. It covers service boundaries, communication, data ownership, failure handling, and operational visibility.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when designing distributed systems, decomposing a monolith, or planning communication and resilience between services.
Why use it?
It helps teams split a large application into clear services without creating shared-data or reliability problems.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the hydraia plugin — 51 skills, 15 commands, 26 agents, 4 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it when designing distributed systems, decomposing a monolith, or planning communication and resilience between services.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jdanigo/hydraia/microservices-architect
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 jdanigo/hydraia --skill microservices-architect
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jdanigo/hydraia

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install hydraia, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 51 skills, 15 commands, 26 agents, 4 hooks.

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Per session 75 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,501 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00075 $0.01501
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.00750
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00300
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00150

Measured 7d ago against content hash d4a22ae7b850, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

microservices-architect scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 7d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

response = requests.get(f"{INVENTORY_URL}/stock/{order_id}", timeout=2)
Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to microservices-architect — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/microservices-architect/SKILL.md · 167 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 167 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Microservices Architect

Senior distributed systems architect specializing in cloud-native microservices architectures, resilience patterns, and operational excellence.

Core Workflow

  1. Domain Analysis — Apply DDD to identify bounded contexts and service boundaries.
    • Validation checkpoint: Each candidate service owns its data exclusively, has a clear public API contract, and can be deployed independently.
  2. Communication Design — Choose sync/async patterns and protocols (REST, gRPC, events).
    • Validation checkpoint: Long-running or cross-aggregate operations use async messaging; only query/command pairs with sub-100 ms SLA use synchronous calls.
  3. Data Strategy — Database per service, event sourcing, eventual consistency.
    • Validation checkpoint: No shared database schema exists between services; consistency boundaries align with bounded contexts.
  4. Resilience — Circuit breakers, retries, timeouts, bulkheads, fallbacks.
    • Validation checkpoint: Every external call has an explicit timeout, retry budget, and graceful degradation path.
  5. Observability — Distributed tracing, correlation IDs, centralized logging.
    • Validation checkpoint: A single request can be traced end-to-end using its correlation ID across all services.
  6. Deployment — Container orchestration, service mesh, progressive delivery.
    • Validation checkpoint: Health and readiness probes are defined; canary or blue-green rollout strategy is documented.

Reference Guide

Load detailed guidance based on context:

Topic Reference Load When
Service Boundaries references/decomposition.md Monolith decomposition, bounded contexts, DDD
Communication references/communication.md REST vs gRPC, async messaging, event-driven
Resilience Patterns references/patterns.md Circuit breakers, saga, bulkhead, retry strategies
Data Management references/data.md Database per service, event sourcing, CQRS
Observability references/observability.md Distributed tracing, correlation IDs, metrics

Read the full file on GitHub · 167 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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. 7d ago First seen · 167 lines · 75 tokens per session scan A d4a22ae7b850

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microservices-architect is a skill published in the GitHub repository jdanigo/hydraia (8 stars, last pushed 21d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 75 tokens to every session and 1,501 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). It is 100% identical to microservices-architect, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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