architecture-design

architecture-design is a skill for Claude Code from RealDougEubanks/ClaudeMarketplace. It costs 33 tokens per session (1,472 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A system-planning guide that turns requirements into a documented design, including diagrams, service boundaries, API agreements, data flows, and failure analysis.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan a new system or feature, document how its parts interact, and record the main architecture decisions.
Why use it?
It helps make important design decisions explicit before implementation, so teams can spot integration problems, missing failure handling, and unclear responsibilities early.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the architecture-design plugin — 1 skill shipped together

Good fit Use it to plan a new system or feature, document how its parts interact, and record the main architecture decisions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/realdougeubanks/claudemarketplace/architecture-design
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.

Any agent
npx skills add RealDougEubanks/ClaudeMarketplace --skill architecture-design
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/RealDougEubanks/ClaudeMarketplace

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install architecture-design, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

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Per session 33 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,472 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 $0.00033 $0.01472
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00736
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00294
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00147

Measured 12d ago against content hash 66b9cb6d1157, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

architecture-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 12d 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/architecture-design/SKILL.md · 157 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 157 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

architecture-design

Purpose

Guide the design of a system or feature from requirements to a documented architecture. Produces C4-model diagrams (Context → Container → Component), service boundary definitions, API contracts, data flow diagrams, failure mode analysis, and an ADR for the key decisions made. Works standalone or as the /abd-design agent in the ABD workflow.

Quick mode (/architecture-design --quick): for single-feature or small-scope designs. Skip Step 5 (C4 Level 3), make the Step 8 failure-mode table optional (include only externally-dependent paths), and keep Steps 1–2 to a single confirmation exchange.

Emit as you go: output each step's section immediately as you complete it rather than composing the whole document at the end. Step 10 assembles the already-emitted sections into the saved file. This keeps quality even across sections.


Instructions

Step 1 — Gather inputs

Ask the user for (or read from existing artifacts):

  • What are we building? (description or link to requirements doc / Jira epic)
  • What are the key constraints? (team size, existing systems to integrate with, cloud provider, language preference, compliance requirements)
  • What is the expected scale? (users/day, requests/second, data volume)
  • What is the timeline? (affects how complex a solution is appropriate)
  • Are there existing systems this must integrate with or replace?

If docs/requirements/ exists, use Glob and Read to load relevant requirements documents.


Step 2 — Propose architecture style

Based on the inputs, recommend and justify one of these patterns. Explain the tradeoffs in the context of the stated constraints:

Pattern Best For Avoid When
Monolith (Modular) Small teams, early stage, unclear domain boundaries Team > 10, independent scaling needed
Microservices Large teams, independent scaling, polyglot Small team, immature domain model
Event-Driven Async workflows, loose coupling, audit trail needed Simple CRUD, low latency required
Hexagonal (Ports & Adapters) Complex domain logic, testability, multiple I/O adapters Simple CRUD apps
CQRS + Event Sourcing Complex queries, audit history, high write/read ratio difference Simple domains, small teams
Serverless Unpredictable traffic, low ops overhead, event-driven Long-running jobs, high cold-start sensitivity
BFF (Backend for Frontend) Multiple client types with different data needs Single client type

Read the full file on GitHub · 157 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. 12d ago First seen · 157 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A 66b9cb6d1157

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architecture-design is a skill published in the GitHub repository RealDougEubanks/ClaudeMarketplace (1 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 1,472 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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