microservices-architect

microservices-architect is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from OneDro1d/dark-factory. It costs 58 tokens per session (1,107 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A design guide for microservices, which are applications split into separately running services. It covers service boundaries, APIs, data flows, security, testing, deployment, and how services communicate.

In plain words
What is it for?
Designing new services, APIs, event-driven data flows, message-based communication, authorization, observability, testing, and deployment plans.
Why use it?
It gives teams a structured way to make architecture decisions about reliability, visibility, asynchronous communication, and trust between services.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Designing new services, APIs, event-driven data flows, message-based communication, authorization, observability, testing, and deployment plans.

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Any agent
npx skills add OneDro1d/dark-factory --skill microservices-architect
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OneDro1d/dark-factory

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 58 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,107 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.
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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00058 $0.01107
Opus 5 $0.00029 $0.00553
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00221
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00111

Measured 8d ago against content hash 23790feaeb99, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

microservices-architect 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 8d ago.

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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/microservices-architect/SKILL.md · 117 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 117 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Microservices Architect

Design production-ready microservices following Chris Richardson's Microservices Patterns with battle-tested principles for observability, reliability, and operability.

Overview

This skill guides you through microservices design with a focus on:

  • Operability over cleverness — Systems we can run, trust, and evolve
  • Observability first — If you can't see it, you can't trust it
  • Async by default — Pub/sub patterns for resilience
  • Explicit trust — Security and authorization built-in

Prime Directives (Non-Negotiables)

These are the rules every microservices design must follow. Exceptions require explicit justification.

# Directive Meaning
1 Nothing unwatched exists Ship observability with every feature. Know before customers.
2 Produce it → publish it. Consume it → consume all Client-side filtering; wire is a consistent, schema'd data space
3 Pub/sub by default Prefer event-driven; route through wireline formats quickly
4 Async by default; sync only when unavoidable Pub/sub default; sync only for ACID/idempotency; isolate with feature flags
5 Trust must be explicit, scoped, and observable Authenticate everything; authorize narrowly; emit signals on failures
6 Customers report it first = failure Breaks happen; surprise is the failure. Detect before impact.
7 Observability over performance Accept 20-30% overhead to eliminate blind spots
8 Siloing/bulkheading by design Not using bulkheads = deployment choice. Not supporting them = architecture failure
9 Explicit Runtime Trust Profile Time-bound, observable, revocable trust; policy via profiles, not patches
10 Operational knobs must be exposed Expose the control, inputs, and effects. Operating > building

Design Workflow

For every feature request, produce these outputs:

1. Design

  • Message flows and sequence diagrams
  • Schemas (events, commands, queries)
  • Idempotency strategy
  • Failure modes and recovery

Read the full file on GitHub · 117 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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

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  1. 8d ago First seen · 117 lines · 58 tokens per session scan A 23790feaeb99

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microservices-architect is a skill published in the GitHub repository OneDro1d/dark-factory (0 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 58 tokens to every session and 1,107 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 2026-09-01.

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