clean-architecture

clean-architecture is a skill for Claude Code from krzysztofsurdy/code-virtuoso. It costs 88 tokens per session (3,773 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Guidance on Clean Architecture, Hexagonal Architecture, and Domain-Driven Design: ways to organize software so business rules stay separate from frameworks, databases, and user interfaces.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define application layers, model business rules with entities and value objects, set service boundaries, design ports and adapters, or structure systems with several entry points.
Why use it?
It helps keep important logic testable and easier to change when infrastructure or delivery methods change.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the knowledge-virtuoso plugin — 15 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to define application layers, model business rules with entities and value objects, set service boundaries, design ports and adapters, or structure systems with several entry points.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/krzysztofsurdy/code-virtuoso/clean-architecture
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add krzysztofsurdy/code-virtuoso --skill clean-architecture
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/krzysztofsurdy/code-virtuoso

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 88 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,773 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 $0.00088 $0.03773
Opus 5 $0.00044 $0.01886
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00755
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00377

Measured 10d ago against content hash 894e02c50d16, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

clean-architecture 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 10d 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/knowledge/clean-architecture/SKILL.md · 294 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 294 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Clean Architecture & DDD

Architectural patterns and tactical design techniques for building systems where business logic is isolated, testable, and independent of frameworks, databases, and delivery mechanisms. Rooted in the work of Robert C. Martin, Alistair Cockburn, and Eric Evans.

When to Use

  • The domain has meaningful business rules that deserve explicit modeling
  • The system must survive framework upgrades, database migrations, or delivery mechanism changes
  • Multiple entry points (API, CLI, message consumer, scheduled jobs) share the same business logic
  • Long-lived product where maintenance cost outweighs initial development speed
  • Team size or turnover demands clear boundaries and enforceable conventions
  • Testability is a priority — business rules must be verifiable without infrastructure

When NOT to Use

Not every system benefits from this level of architectural rigor. Avoid over-engineering when:

  • The application is a simple CRUD wrapper with no meaningful business logic
  • The project is a short-lived prototype or proof of concept
  • The team is very small and the domain is well understood with few rules
  • The overhead of layer separation exceeds the complexity of the problem
  • A simple framework-centric approach (e.g., MVC with active records) adequately serves the need

The key question: Does the domain have enough complexity to justify the investment? If the answer is no, a simpler architecture is the right choice. You can always introduce boundaries later as complexity grows.

Architecture Styles

Three well-known styles share the same core principle: dependencies point inward, and the domain sits at the center.

Style Origin Key Metaphor Distinguishing Idea
Clean Architecture Robert C. Martin (2012) Concentric circles Explicit layer names: Entity, Use Case, Interface Adapter, Framework
Hexagonal (Ports & Adapters) Alistair Cockburn (2005) Hexagon with ports Symmetry between driving (primary) and driven (secondary) adapters
Onion Architecture Jeffrey Palermo (2008) Onion layers Emphasis on domain model at the core, infrastructure at the outer ring

Read the full file on GitHub · 294 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 10d ago First seen · 294 lines · 88 tokens per session scan A 894e02c50d16

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clean-architecture is a skill published in the GitHub repository krzysztofsurdy/code-virtuoso (21 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 88 tokens to every session and 3,773 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 2026-08-30.

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