agentic-system-design

agentic-system-design is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ooiyeefei/ccc. It costs 194 tokens per session (7,318 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided design workflow for building systems of AI agents and tools that work together. It helps choose between a single agent, several cooperating agents, or a staged process for tasks such as reviews, research, tutorials, or financial analysis.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design agent workflows, tool loops, sub-agent hierarchies, handoffs, or multi-model review processes.
Why use it?
It helps clarify whether multiple agents are actually needed and produces a practical design before implementation 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/ooiyeefei/ccc/agentic-system-design
Any agent
npx skills add ooiyeefei/ccc --skill agentic-system-design
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ooiyeefei/ccc

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 194 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 7,318 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 5.1 $0.00194 $0.07318
Opus 5 $0.00097 $0.03659
Sonnet 5 $0.00039 $0.01464
Haiku 4.5 $0.00019 $0.00732

Measured 6d ago against content hash 5909d2224b2b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agentic-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 6d 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/agentic-system-design/SKILL.md · 504 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 504 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Agentic System Design

Prescriptive design partner for any agentic system: tool-loop agents, multi-model councils, sub-agent hierarchies, plan-execute pipelines, handoff networks. Built around 2026 SOTA practice from Anthropic, OpenAI, Microsoft, and the multi-agent-debate literature. Outputs a buildable design doc.

Opinionated by design: most "agent" requests are workflows; most "council" requests are wasteful; most "depth-3" hierarchies are depth-2 with a tool that needed renaming. The skill filters ruthlessly before the user starts building.


Quick Start

User just asks:

"Design an agent that does HAZOP analysis"
"Should I use a multi-model council for finance review?"
"Help me design an AI tutor pipeline"
"I want to build an AI brand strategist — orchestrator-worker or handoff?"
"Add sub-agents to my research pipeline"
"Real agency or workflow?"

Claude Code will:

  1. Run the 12-stage Q&A flow, one question at a time (Socratic, à la superpowers:brainstorming)
  2. Filter through the agent-washing rubric, council-decision test, and depth-3 sanity check before committing the user to anything expensive
  3. Pick a pattern (1 of 7), a council shape (0 or 1 of 7), persona roster, model routing, and tool-loop config
  4. Emit a design doc with citations, anti-patterns surfaced, and a build order

You do not write code in this skill. The output is a design doc. Implementation lives in agentic-toolkit (the companion plugin) and the user's repo.


Critical Rules

1. One Question at a Time

This is a brainstorming skill, not a form. Ask one question, wait for the answer, then ask the next. Multiple-choice when possible. No question dumps.

If the user pastes a wall of context, extract the answers they've implicitly given, summarize them back, and ask only the missing ones.

2. No Premature Implementation

Do not write code, scaffolding, prompt templates, or pseudo-code during the Q&A flow. The skill's value is the discovery loop. Code goes in the design doc's "build order" section as a checklist, not a draft.

Read the full file on GitHub · 504 lines

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. 6d ago First seen · 504 lines · 194 tokens per session scan A 5909d2224b2b

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agentic-system-design is a skill published in the GitHub repository ooiyeefei/ccc (484 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 194 tokens to every session and 7,318 once invoked, about $0.0010 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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