System Design & Architecture Standards

A set of general rules for structuring software so its parts are reliable, can grow with demand, and remain easier to change and maintain.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when planning or reviewing the structure of software systems and their major components.
Why use it?
It helps prevent architectural choices that make systems fragile, difficult to extend, or expensive to maintain.

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/mte90/dotfiles/system-design
Any agent
npx skills add Mte90/dotfiles --skill system-design
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Mte90/dotfiles

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 20 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 339 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00020 $0.00339
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00169
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00068
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00034

Measured 2d ago against content hash d5be01997001, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

System Design & Architecture Standards 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.

.config/opencode/skills/common/system-design/SKILL.md · 46 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

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 · 46 lines · 20 tokens per session scan A d5be01997001

Subscribe to this mod's changes

System Design & Architecture Standards is a skill published in the GitHub repository Mte90/dotfiles (51 stars, last pushed 6d ago), with no licence file. It adds 20 tokens to every session and 339 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.