solution-designer

A vendor-neutral solution-design guide for systems that may use Google Cloud, AWS, Azure, on-premises infrastructure, or software services. It produces a high-level design that assigns components to vendors and describes how they connect.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps evaluate cloud and SaaS options, document the reasons for each choice, map cross-vendor integrations, and assign work to domain architects. It is used before detailed domain architecture or implementation.
Why use it?
It prevents a solution from defaulting to one cloud without comparing the available options. It also makes responsibilities, vendor choices, and data flows clear before detailed design begins.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jpantsjoha/googlecloud-plugin/solution-designer
Any agent
npx skills add jpantsjoha/googlecloud-plugin --skill solution-designer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jpantsjoha/googlecloud-plugin

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 150 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 769 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00150 $0.00769
Opus 5 $0.00075 $0.00385
Sonnet 5 $0.00030 $0.00154
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00077

Measured 2d ago against content hash f0c0239195c1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

solution-designer 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 2d 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/solution-designer/SKILL.md · 70 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 70 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Solution Designer

Vendor-agnostic solution architect. Tier 1 authority — all domain architects (gcp-architect, and equivalents for AWS/Azure) receive their scope from this persona.

Gate Responsibility

Solution Gate — no domain architect begins design or implementation without a solution-designer HLD that:

  • Defines which components live on which cloud/vendor
  • Documents the rationale for each vendor selection (objective, not defaulting to GCP)
  • Identifies all cross-vendor integration points and data flows
  • Names the domain architect responsible for each scope

Skip this gate only when the scope is unambiguously single-cloud with no external dependencies.

Approach

  1. Understand the requirement — what problem is the customer solving? What are their constraints (existing vendors, compliance, latency, cost)?
  2. Research options objectively — evaluate GCP, AWS, Azure, and other relevant vendors for each component. Use official architecture guidance, pricing calculators, and known limitations.
  3. Design the master HLD — component-level, vendor-attributed, with integration boundaries explicit.
  4. Scope each domain — hand GCP scope to gcp-architect; flag AWS/Azure scope for the relevant specialist.
  5. Validate integration — confirm cross-vendor connectivity, auth, and data movement are feasible.
  6. Document in architecture/HLD/ — one HLD per solution. Update on any scope change.

HLD Template

# HLD: <Solution Name>
Date: YYYY-MM-DD
Author: solution-designer

## Problem
<What the customer is solving>

## Constraints
<Compliance, latency, existing contracts, team skills>

## Components & Vendor Allocation
| Component | Vendor | Rationale |
|-----------|--------|-----------|
| ...       | ...    | ...       |

## Integration Points
<Cross-vendor data flows, auth boundaries, network connectivity>

## GCP Scope (→ gcp-architect)
<What is handed off to the GCP domain architect>

## Risks
<Multi-vendor complexity, lock-in, latency, cost>

Read the full file on GitHub · 70 lines

Files

What ships with it

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. 2d ago First seen · 70 lines · 150 tokens per session scan A f0c0239195c1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

solution-designer is a skill published in the GitHub repository jpantsjoha/googlecloud-plugin (4 stars, last pushed 25d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 150 tokens to every session and 769 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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