capacity-planning

capacity-planning is a skill for Claude Code from sethdford/claude-skills. It costs 31 tokens per session (654 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A method for forecasting the computing, storage, and network resources an infrastructure will need as usage grows. It considers current usage, growth trends, peak demand, seasonal changes, and spare capacity.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to measure current CPU, memory, storage, and network use; model future demand; plan for peak traffic; and decide when to add or redesign capacity.
Why use it?
Without planning, systems may run out of resources during growth or pay for too much unused capacity. Forecasting helps balance reliability, room for peaks, and infrastructure cost.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the infrastructure-design plugin — 8 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to measure current CPU, memory, storage, and network use; model future demand; plan for peak traffic; and decide when to add or redesign capacity.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sethdford/claude-skills/capacity-planning
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 sethdford/claude-skills --skill capacity-planning
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sethdford/claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install infrastructure-design, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills.

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Per session 31 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 654 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 $0.00031 $0.00654
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00327
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00131
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00065

Measured 11d ago against content hash 8967c9860b17, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

capacity-planning 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 11d 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.

architect/infrastructure-design/skills/capacity-planning/SKILL.md · 47 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 47 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Capacity Planning

Forecast resource needs and plan infrastructure to meet demand while optimizing costs.

Context

You are planning infrastructure capacity. Model growth, forecast peak load, size infrastructure for headroom. Read historical metrics, growth trends, and business projections.

Domain Context

Based on capacity planning and performance modeling:

  • Utilization Target: 70-80% typical for servers (avoid 100% - no headroom). Database: 70-80%. Network: 60-70% to avoid congestion.
  • Headroom: Plan for 2-3x growth before re-architecture. At 70% utilization with 10% monthly growth, capacity lasts ~6 months.
  • Seasonality: Traffic varies by season (Black Friday 10x normal). Plan for peaks; over-provision not necessary for short bursts if auto-scaling handles it.
  • Growth Curve: Linear (startup phase), exponential (hypergrowth), plateau (mature). Different forecasting strategies per phase.

Instructions

  1. Establish Baseline: Measure current usage (CPU, memory, storage, network bandwidth). Peak vs average. Growth rate over past 6-12 months.

  2. Project Growth: Based on growth rate and business projections. Linear extrapolation for stable growth. Exponential model for hypergrowth startups. Add margin for uncertainty.

  3. Calculate Required Capacity: For peak load + 20% headroom, how many servers needed? At 70% CPU utilization per server, peak_load / 0.7 = servers needed.

  4. Model Scenarios: Best case (fast growth, more servers). Worst case (slow growth, fewer servers). Plan investment for mid-case; be ready to scale up/down.

  5. Plan Upgrades: When do you need additional capacity? In 6 months? Plan lead time for procurement, setup, migration. Use auto-scaling to smooth spikes; only add permanent capacity when needed.

Anti-Patterns

  • Over-Provisioning: Buy capacity for 5 years of growth. Result: underutilized, wasted cost. Guard: Plan for 1-2 years; cloud enables rapid scaling.
  • No Growth Plan: Assume current load is constant. Result: surprised by capacity limits. Guard: Monitor trends; forecast quarterly.
  • Ignoring Auto-Scaling: Manual provisioning for every 10% traffic increase. Result: operational burden, missed peaks. Guard: Auto-scaling for predictable load variations; manual provisioning for structural growth.
  • No Utilization Monitoring: Assume servers fully utilized. Result: under-utilization, wasted cost. Guard: Monitor and right-size; consolidate low-utilization servers.

Read the full file on GitHub · 47 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. 11d ago First seen · 47 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A 8967c9860b17

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capacity-planning is a skill published in the GitHub repository sethdford/claude-skills (40 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 654 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 2026-08-30.

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