design-patterns-expert

design-patterns-expert is a skill for Claude Code from rysweet/amplihack. It costs 49 tokens per session (1,274 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A guide to the 23 classic Gang of Four design patterns, with explanations that move from a quick overview to practical and detailed advice.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when designing or reviewing object-oriented code and deciding whether a design pattern is appropriate.
Why use it?
It helps you recognise recurring software design problems and choose a fitting solution without adding unnecessary complexity.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

Part of the amplihack plugin — 101 skills, 45 commands, 1 agent, 6 hooks shipped together

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/rysweet/amplihack/design-patterns-expert
Any agent
npx skills add rysweet/amplihack --skill design-patterns-expert
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rysweet/amplihack

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install amplihack, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 101 skills, 45 commands, 1 agent, 6 hooks.

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README.md
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Per session 49 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,274 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00049 $0.01274
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00637
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00255
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00127

Measured 2d ago against content hash 735bc37c5261, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

design-patterns-expert 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 2d 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.

.claude/skills/design-patterns-expert/SKILL.md · 157 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

Files

What ships with it

10 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. 2d ago First seen · 157 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A 735bc37c5261

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design-patterns-expert is a skill published in the GitHub repository rysweet/amplihack (77 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 1,274 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 2026-09-03.

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