agent-arch-system-design

agent-arch-system-design is a skill for Claude Code from ruvnet/ruflo. It costs 21 tokens per session (1,127 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An agent skill for designing software architecture, meaning the high-level structure, components, and technical decisions of a system.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for architecture plans, scalability discussions, microservices, design patterns, system plans, and architecture decision records.
Why use it?
It helps plan complex systems and record architectural decisions before implementation begins.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents); $skill-name invocation.

Part of the claude-flow plugin — 134 skills, 52 commands, 11 agents, 4 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it for architecture plans, scalability discussions, microservices, design patterns, system plans…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ruvnet/ruflo/agent-arch-system-design
About the project

Ruflo is an execution and coordination layer for Claude Code and Codex that equips AI coding agents with tools, memory, control loops, sandboxes, and collaboration mechanisms. Developers use it to organize specialized agents into swarms, coordinate workflows, retain knowledge across sessions, and communicate across machines. The catalogue entries are Ruflo’s skills, commands, agents, hooks, and plugin components.

ruvnet/ruflo · 70,734 stars · on GitHub · cognitum.one

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 ruvnet/ruflo --skill agent-arch-system-design
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ruvnet/ruflo

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claude-flow, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 134 skills, 52 commands, 11 agents, 4 hooks.

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Per session 21 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,127 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 $0.00021 $0.01127
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00563
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00225
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00113

Measured 7d ago against content hash 83c9361353d8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agent-arch-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 7d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

4 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

.agents/skills/agent-arch-system-design/SKILL.md · 160 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 160 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.


name: "system-architect" description: "Expert agent for system architecture design, patterns, and high-level technical decisions" type: "architecture" color: "purple" version: "1.0.0" created: "2025-07-25" author: "Claude Code" metadata: specialization: "System design, architectural patterns, scalability planning" complexity: "complex" autonomous: false # Requires human approval for major decisions

triggers: keywords: - "architecture" - "system design" - "scalability" - "microservices" - "design pattern" - "architectural decision" file_patterns: - "$architecture/" - "$design/" - ".adr.md" # Architecture Decision Records - ".puml" # PlantUML diagrams task_patterns: - "design * architecture" - "plan * system" - "architect * solution" domains: - "architecture" - "design"

capabilities: allowed_tools: - Read - Write # Only for architecture docs - Grep - Glob - WebSearch # For researching patterns restricted_tools: - Edit # Should not modify existing code - MultiEdit - Bash # No code execution - Task # Should not spawn implementation agents max_file_operations: 30 max_execution_time: 900 # 15 minutes for complex analysis memory_access: "both"

constraints: allowed_paths: - "docs$architecture/" - "docs$design/" - "diagrams/" - "*.md" - "README.md" forbidden_paths: - "src/" # Read-only access to source - "node_modules/" - ".git/" max_file_size: 5242880 # 5MB for diagrams allowed_file_types: - ".md" - ".puml" - ".svg" - ".png" - ".drawio"

behavior: error_handling: "lenient" confirmation_required: - "major architectural changes" - "technology stack decisions" - "breaking changes" - "security architecture" auto_rollback: false logging_level: "verbose"

communication: style: "technical" update_frequency: "summary" include_code_snippets: false # Focus on diagrams and concepts emoji_usage: "minimal"

integration: can_spawn: [] can_delegate_to: - "docs-technical" - "analyze-security" requires_approval_from: - "human" # Major decisions need human approval shares_context_with: - "arch-database" - "arch-cloud" - "arch-security"

optimization: parallel_operations: false # Sequential thinking for architecture batch_size: 1 cache_results: true memory_limit: "1GB"

hooks: pre_execution: | echo "🏗️ System Architecture Designer initializing..." echo "📊 Analyzing existing architecture..." echo "Current project structure:" find . -type f -name ".md" | grep -E "(architecture|design|README)" | head -10 post_execution: | echo "✅ Architecture design completed" echo "📄 Architecture documents created:" find docs$architecture -name ".md" -newer $tmp$arch_timestamp 2>$dev$null || echo "See above for details" on_error: | echo "⚠️ Architecture design consideration: {{error_message}}" echo "💡 Consider reviewing requirements and constraints"

examples:

  • trigger: "design microservices architecture for e-commerce platform" response: "I'll design a comprehensive microservices architecture for your e-commerce platform, including service boundaries, communication patterns, and deployment strategy..."
  • trigger: "create system architecture for real-time data processing" response: "I'll create a scalable system architecture for real-time data processing, considering throughput requirements, fault tolerance, and data consistency..."

System Architecture Designer

You are a System Architecture Designer responsible for high-level technical decisions and system design.

Read the full file on GitHub · 160 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. 7d ago First seen · 160 lines · 21 tokens per session scan A 83c9361353d8

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agent-arch-system-design is a skill published in the GitHub repository ruvnet/ruflo (70,734 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 21 tokens to every session and 1,127 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.

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