system-design

system-design is a skill for Claude Code from kkunkunya/ai-frontend-design-kit. It costs 72 tokens per session (1,329 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for making major software structure decisions and recording them in design documents or Architecture Decision Records (ADRs), which explain important technical choices.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for system redesigns, high-risk integrations, shared APIs, and choices such as databases, message queues, or deployment architecture.
Why use it?
It helps teams reason about module boundaries, data flow, dependencies, and failure risks before changing a multi-part or existing system.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the ai-frontend-design-kit plugin — 10 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it for system redesigns, high-risk integrations, shared APIs, and choices such as databases, message queues, or deployment architecture.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kkunkunya/ai-frontend-design-kit/system-design
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 kkunkunya/ai-frontend-design-kit --skill system-design
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kkunkunya/ai-frontend-design-kit

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ai-frontend-design-kit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills.

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Per session 72 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,329 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 $0.00072 $0.01329
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00665
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00266
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00133

Measured 9d ago against content hash 65f4ba5ee993, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

system-design 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 9d 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/system-design/SKILL.md · 123 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 123 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

系统架构决策

技能定位

本技能处理"系统怎么切"的问题:模块边界、数据流向、存储选型、API 契约、依赖拓扑、扩展点。

核心方法论:Alternatives Considered 强制 + trade-off 诚实。没有 alternatives 段的 Design Doc 是推销文档,不是设计文档。

何时进入

  • 多模块项目或跨模块改造
  • 存量系统新增模块(需评估是否破坏现有边界)
  • 高风险集成(第三方服务、跨团队 API)
  • 重大技术选型(数据库、消息队列、部署架构)
  • req-suite:project-spec 路由过来

何时不进入

  • 前端技术栈选型(Next.js/Vite/状态管理)→ frontend-design-research
  • 视觉/动效/组件库 → frontend-design-research
  • 纯 UI 项目无后端 → 不需要本 skill
  • 单模块小项目、local-light 模式 → 不需要本 skill

前置输入

req-suite:project-spec 获取:

  • knowledge/product-specs/PRODUCT-BRIEF.md(目标结果 + 非目标)
  • knowledge/references/research-*.md(调研结果,如有)
  • 选择题清单中和架构相关的 🟡/🔴 项

核心流程

1. 结构影响分析 → 2. Design Doc / ADR → 3. 更新 ARCHITECTURE.md

步骤 1:结构影响分析

回答这些问题:

  • 这次变化涉及哪些模块?
  • 有没有模块不该碰(boundary violation)?
  • 数据流方向是什么?有没有循环依赖?
  • 失败模式是什么?一个模块挂了会影响什么?
  • 有没有共享状态需要加锁/同步?

步骤 2:写 Design Doc 或 ADR

根据决策规模选用:

大 Design Doc(重要方案决策)

核心段(按社区最佳实践):

写什么 质量标准
Context 背景事实 + 相关链接,不写观点 3-5 行,读完知道为什么在讨论这件事
Goals / Non-goals 要达成什么、明确不追求什么 可验证的 bullet 列表
Proposed Design 方案概述 + 关键架构图 Agent 读完能开始实现
Alternatives Considered 考虑过的其他方案 + 每个的 trade-off 这是核心。没有这段的 doc 是推销文档
Risks & Mitigations 已知风险和应对 每条 risk 有对应 mitigation
Success Criteria 怎么判断方案成功 可测量、可验证

规模:1-3 页小方案,5-10 页大方案。超过 10 页说明该拆。

产出写入 knowledge/design-docs/DESIGN-DOC-[标题].md

小 ADR(单个决策记录)

适用于具体技术选择、配置决策、依赖选型。

# ADR-NNN: [决策标题]

## Status
Proposed | Accepted | Superseded by ADR-NNN | Deprecated

## Context
[驱动这个决策的背景力量、约束、需求]

## Decision
[选了什么、怎么做]

## Consequences
[好的后果 + 坏的后果 + trade-off]

一个文件一个决策,不合并。不修改已 Accepted 的 ADR,用新 ADR 替代。

产出写入 knowledge/design-docs/ADR-NNN-[标题].md

步骤 3:更新 ARCHITECTURE.md

将稳定的结构事实写入项目根的 ARCHITECTURE.md(不是 knowledge/ 下的):模块拓扑、关键依赖、数据流向。只写事实,不写决策理由(理由住在 Design Doc / ADR 里)。

与 frontend-design-research 的边界

两个 skill 是正交子域,不是上下层:

本 skill 管 frontend-design-research 管
模块边界、数据流、存储、API 契约 主语言、参考案例、动效采访、视觉 token
依赖拓扑、扩展点 前端技术栈(框架/路由/状态/构建)
跨层集成协议 组件库路由、动效资产库

Read the full file on GitHub · 123 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. 9d ago First seen · 123 lines · 72 tokens per session scan A 65f4ba5ee993

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system-design is a skill published in the GitHub repository kkunkunya/ai-frontend-design-kit (7 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 72 tokens to every session and 1,329 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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