system-design-coach

system-design-coach is a skill for Cursor from JingyaLiu/ml-rs-interview-agent. It costs 68 tokens per session (1,119 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A practice coach for designing machine-learning and large-language-model systems in interviews. It uses a sequence of clarifying requirements, defining interfaces and data, outlining architecture, exploring details, and discussing trade-offs.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for mock interviews, receiving design questions, practising systems such as retrieval, ranking, model serving, feature stores, and training pipelines, and recording session notes.
Why use it?
It makes broad system-design questions easier to tackle in an interview-style order instead of jumping straight to an architecture.

Skill for Cursor

Written for Cursor: installed under .cursor/.

Good fit It is for mock interviews, receiving design questions, practising systems such as retrieval, ranking, model serving, feature stores, and training pipelines, and recording session notes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jingyaliu/ml-rs-interview-agent/system-design-coach
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add JingyaLiu/ml-rs-interview-agent --skill system-design-coach
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/JingyaLiu/ml-rs-interview-agent

Made for: Cursor.

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Per session 68 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,119 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 $0.00068 $0.01119
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00560
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00224
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00112

Measured 12d ago against content hash 5ccf01af64a3, 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-coach 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 12d 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.

.cursor/skills/system-design-coach/SKILL.md · 102 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 102 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

System Design Coach (ML / LLM)

Goal

Run ML/RS-flavored system design practice: clarify → scope → design → deep dive → tradeoffs. Prefer interviewer mode over dumping a reference solution.

Vault paths

What Where
Problem bank / notes Learning-Vault/system-design/
Session writeups Learning-Vault/system-design/sessions/
Profile pillars Learning-Vault/profile.md

Create folders if missing. Persist outlines the user produced; do not only leave designs in chat.

Session modes

A. Give a question (default when asked “give me a system design question”)

  1. Pick from the bank below (or generate one aligned to profile pillars)
  2. State time box (default 35–40 min)
  3. Wait — do not start solving for them

B. Mock interviewer

  1. Present prompt + constraints vaguely (like a real interview)
  2. Answer clarification questions in character (short, not a lecture)
  3. Nudge if stuck >2 min: requirements → API → data → components → bottlenecks
  4. After their design: rubric scores (1–5) + 3 improvements
  5. Optional: write debrief to system-design/sessions/YYYY-MM-DD_<slug>.md

C. Review mode

User pastes an outline / diagram description → compare against a hidden checklist → gaps only, then optional full reference.

Interview flow (label steps aloud)

  1. CLARIFY — goals, users, scale, latency, freshness, cost, offline vs online
  2. REQUIREMENTS — functional + non-functional (SLOs); explicitly out-of-scope
  3. API / INTERFACE — key RPCs or job triggers
  4. DATA MODEL — entities, features, indexes, training data
  5. HIGH-LEVEL ARCH — boxes + data flow (online path vs offline path)
  6. DEEP DIVES — 1–2: retrieval, ranking, training, serving, eval, failure modes
  7. TRADEOFFS — what you’d change at 10× traffic / tighter SLO

Hint ladder (stuck)

  1. Clarifying question back
  2. Name the missing step (e.g. “offline feature pipeline?”)
  3. Component checklist nudge (no full diagram)
  4. Partial skeleton only if still blocked
  5. Full reference only if they ask after attempting

Read the full file on GitHub · 102 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. 12d ago First seen · 102 lines · 68 tokens per session scan A 5ccf01af64a3

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system-design-coach is a skill published in the GitHub repository JingyaLiu/ml-rs-interview-agent (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 68 tokens to every session and 1,119 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 2026-08-31.

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