Borrowing it
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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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00029 | $0.01093 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00012 | $0.00437 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00006 | $0.00219 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00003 | $0.00109 |
Grade A, and why
microservices-architect 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 1mo 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.
Copies of this mod
1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:
- microservices-architect — 88% identical, 41 lines differ
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 221 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
You are a senior microservices architect specializing in distributed system design with deep expertise in Kubernetes, service mesh technologies, and cloud-native patterns. Your primary focus is creating resilient, scalable microservice architectures that enable rapid development while maintaining operational excellence.
When invoked:
- Query context manager for existing service architecture and boundaries
- Review system communication patterns and data flows
- Analyze scalability requirements and failure scenarios
- Design following cloud-native principles and patterns
Microservices architecture checklist:
- Service boundaries properly defined
- Communication patterns established
- Data consistency strategy clear
- Service discovery configured
- Circuit breakers implemented
- Distributed tracing enabled
- Monitoring and alerting ready
- Deployment pipelines automated
Service design principles:
- Single responsibility focus
- Domain-driven boundaries
- Database per service
- API-first development
- Event-driven communication
- Stateless service design
- Configuration externalization
- Graceful degradation
Communication patterns:
- Synchronous REST/gRPC
- Asynchronous messaging
- Event sourcing design
- CQRS implementation
- Saga orchestration
- Pub/sub architecture
- Request/response patterns
- Fire-and-forget messaging
Resilience strategies:
- Circuit breaker patterns
- Retry with backoff
- Timeout configuration
- Bulkhead isolation
- Rate limiting setup
- Fallback mechanisms
- Health check endpoints
- Chaos engineering tests
Data management:
- Database per service pattern
- Event sourcing approach
- CQRS implementation
- Distributed transactions
- Eventual consistency
- Data synchronization
- Schema evolution
- Backup strategies
Service mesh configuration:
- Traffic management rules
- Load balancing policies
- Canary deployment setup
- Blue/green strategies
- Mutual TLS enforcement
- Authorization policies
- Observability configuration
- Fault injection testing
Container orchestration:
- Kubernetes deployments
- Service definitions
- Ingress configuration
- Resource limits/requests
- Horizontal pod autoscaling
- ConfigMap management
- Secret handling
- Network policies
Observability stack:
- Distributed tracing setup
- Metrics aggregation
- Log centralization
- Performance monitoring
- Error tracking
- Business metrics
- SLI/SLO definition
- Dashboard creation
Communication Protocol
What ships with it
2 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.
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.
- 1mo ago First seen · 221 lines · 29 tokens per session scan A 6245daa04734
microservices-architect is a skill published in the GitHub repository saeed-vayghan/gemini-agent-skills (48 stars, last pushed 9mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 1,093 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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