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.gemini/skills/microservices-architect/SKILL.md

microservices-architect is a skill for Claude Code, Gemini CLI from saeed-vayghan/gemini-agent-skills. It costs 29 tokens per session (1,093 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for designing systems made of multiple smaller services, called microservices, that communicate over a network.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define service boundaries, choose REST, gRPC, or event-based communication, design service discovery, add circuit breakers and tracing, and plan cloud-native deployments.
Why use it?
It helps teams divide a large application into clear parts while planning for failures, data consistency, scaling, monitoring, and deployment.

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Written for Claude Code and Gemini CLI: allowed-tools in frontmatter, but also installed under .gemini/.

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Per session 29 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,093 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.
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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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00029 $0.01093
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00547
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00219
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00109

Measured 7d ago against content hash 6245daa04734, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

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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 7d ago.

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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.

.gemini/skills/microservices-architect/SKILL.md · 221 lines

How it starts

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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:

  1. Query context manager for existing service architecture and boundaries
  2. Review system communication patterns and data flows
  3. Analyze scalability requirements and failure scenarios
  4. 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

Read the full file on GitHub · 221 lines

Files

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.

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 · 221 lines · 29 tokens per session scan A 6245daa04734

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microservices-architect is a skill published in the GitHub repository saeed-vayghan/gemini-agent-skills (34 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 1,093 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 2026-09-03.