multi-region-design

multi-region-design is a skill for Claude Code from sethdford/claude-skills. It costs 36 tokens per session (624 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for designing software that runs across several geographic regions, such as Europe, North America, and Asia.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan data replication, traffic routing, caching, failover, and data-residency requirements for globally distributed systems.
Why use it?
It helps reduce delays for users in different places, keep services running during regional failures, and meet rules about where data may be stored.

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 plan data replication, traffic routing, caching, failover, and data-residency requirements for globally distributed systems.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sethdford/claude-skills/multi-region-design
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add sethdford/claude-skills --skill multi-region-design
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 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 624 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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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00036 $0.00624
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00312
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00125
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00062

Measured 12d ago against content hash 06c3f9097e38, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

multi-region-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 12d 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.

architect/infrastructure-design/skills/multi-region-design/SKILL.md · 48 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 48 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Multi-Region Design

Architect globally distributed systems with low latency, data sovereignty, and automatic failover.

Context

You are designing systems spanning multiple regions. Plan data replication, edge caching, latency optimization, and compliance. Read user distribution, latency requirements, and regulatory constraints.

Domain Context

Based on global infrastructure design (Netflix, Google, Cloudflare):

  • Latency: User experiences slowness if round-trip > 100ms. Multi-region with CDN typically needed for global audience.
  • Data Replication: Eventual consistency (asynchronous) for high availability. Strong consistency harder to achieve globally; usually not needed.
  • Compliance: GDPR requires EU data in EU. PIPL requires China data in China. Design for data residency.
  • Edge Computing: Run compute near users; offload from central region
  • DNS-Based Routing: Route users to nearest healthy region using geo-DNS

Instructions

  1. Map User Distribution: Where are users? 50% US-East, 30% Europe, 20% Asia? Design regions to minimize latency to majority.

  2. Plan Data Replication: How quickly must data replicate to other regions? Realtime streaming (DynamoDB global tables) or batch (daily sync)? Cost increases with replication frequency.

  3. Implement Read Replicas: Let each region read locally. Writes go to primary region, asynchronously replicate to replicas. Handle read-after-write consistency issues.

  4. Set Up Failover: Primary region fails, automatically route to standby region. Traffic reroutes via DNS or load balancer health checks. Test failover regularly.

  5. Optimize Latency: CDN caches static content near users. API Gateway in each region. Database read replicas local to region. Monitor latency by region; identify bottlenecks.

Anti-Patterns

  • Multi-Region Without Plan: "Let's just replicate everything globally." Result: complexity, cost, hard to debug. Guard: Design for specific latency/compliance needs; multi-region is expensive.
  • Strong Consistency Globally: Require all regions to immediately see writes. Result: latency, complexity. Guard: Accept eventual consistency; design application for it.
  • No Failover Testing: Assume it works. Result: regional failure becomes outage. Guard: Monthly failover drills; practice responding to regional incidents.
  • Ignoring Data Residency: Replicate data to any region for performance. Result: compliance violation. Guard: Implement geofences; restrict EU data to EU regions.

Read the full file on GitHub · 48 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. 12d ago First seen · 48 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A 06c3f9097e38

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multi-region-design is a skill published in the GitHub repository sethdford/claude-skills (41 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 624 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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