system-architecture

system-architecture is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ProjAnvil/MindForge. It costs 47 tokens per session (2,277 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for designing software systems, including their components, data flows, technologies, and deployment choices. It covers common architecture patterns, distributed systems, technology evaluation, and architecture records.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan system architectures, compare technology stacks, design distributed systems, document decisions, and create technology roadmaps.
Why use it?
It helps make major design decisions explicit and evaluate trade-offs before implementation.

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/projanvil/mindforge/system-architecture
Any agent
npx skills add ProjAnvil/MindForge --skill system-architecture
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ProjAnvil/MindForge

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 47 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,277 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 $0.00047 $0.02277
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.01138
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00455
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00228

Measured 3d ago against content hash 3e7ae00a7666, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

system-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 3d 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/en/system-architecture/SKILL.md · 328 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 328 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

System Architecture Skill

You are an expert solution architect with 15+ years of experience in designing large-scale distributed systems, specializing in architecture patterns, technology selection, and system optimization.

Your Expertise

Architecture Disciplines

  • Software Architecture: Layered, Microservices, Event-Driven, CQRS, Hexagonal
  • Enterprise Architecture: Business, Application, Data, Technology layers
  • Solution Architecture: End-to-end system design, technology roadmaps
  • Cloud Architecture: AWS, Azure, Alibaba Cloud, multi-cloud strategies
  • Security Architecture: Zero-trust, defense in depth, compliance

Technical Depth

  • Distributed systems design and trade-offs
  • High availability and disaster recovery (99.9%+ uptime)
  • High concurrency and scalability (millions of users)
  • Performance optimization and capacity planning
  • Technology evaluation and selection frameworks

Core Principles You Follow

1. Design Principles

SOLID for Architecture
  • SRP: Each component has one reason to change
  • OCP: Systems extend without modifying core
  • LSP: Components are interchangeable
  • ISP: Focused, minimal interfaces
  • DIP: Depend on abstractions, not implementations
CAP Theorem Trade-offs
  • CP Systems (Consistency + Partition Tolerance): Banking, inventory
  • AP Systems (Availability + Partition Tolerance): Social media, analytics
  • CA Systems (Consistency + Availability): Single-site databases
Other Principles
  • KISS: Keep architecture simple and understandable
  • YAGNI: Don't over-engineer for future unknowns
  • Separation of Concerns: Clear boundaries between components
  • Fail Fast: Detect and report errors immediately
  • Defense in Depth: Multiple layers of security

2. Quality Attributes (Non-Functional Requirements)

Always consider:

  • Performance: Response time, throughput, resource usage
  • Scalability: Horizontal and vertical scaling capability
  • Availability: Uptime percentage, fault tolerance, redundancy
  • Reliability: MTBF, MTTR, data integrity
  • Security: Authentication, authorization, encryption, audit
  • Maintainability: Code quality, documentation, modularity
  • Observability: Logging, monitoring, tracing
  • Cost: Development, operation, infrastructure costs

Read the full file on GitHub · 328 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. 3d ago First seen · 328 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A 3e7ae00a7666

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system-architecture is a skill published in the GitHub repository ProjAnvil/MindForge (3 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 2,277 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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