system-design

system-design is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from shahtuyakov/claude-setup. It costs 54 tokens per session (451 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of architecture patterns and decision guides for web applications and native iOS apps with custom backends.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when choosing APIs, databases, authentication, real-time updates, storage, hosting structure, or an iOS app architecture.
Why use it?
It gives a structured way to compare technology choices and record why an architecture decision was made.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it when choosing APIs, databases, authentication, real-time updates, storage, hosting structure, or an iOS app architecture.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/shahtuyakov/claude-setup/system-design
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 shahtuyakov/claude-setup --skill system-design
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/shahtuyakov/claude-setup

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 54 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 451 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 $0.00054 $0.00451
Opus 5 $0.00027 $0.00226
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00090
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00045

Measured 8d ago against content hash 6052ef04f9a6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

system-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 8d 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.

skills/system-design/SKILL.md · 53 lines

What it actually says

System Design

Architectural decision framework for web apps and iOS native applications with custom backends.

Decision Process

  1. Identify requirements (scale, platform, constraints)
  2. Load relevant reference file (see table below)
  3. Use comparison matrix to evaluate options
  4. Verify compatibility using MCP context7 for latest docs
  5. Document decision with rationale

Reference Navigation

Decision Type Load Use When
API style references/api-patterns.md Choosing REST vs GraphQL vs gRPC
Database references/database-patterns.md Selecting primary database, caching layer
Authentication references/auth-patterns.md Designing auth flow, token strategy
Real-time references/realtime-patterns.md Adding live updates, push notifications
iOS architecture references/ios-patterns.md Native iOS app structure, offline-first
Backend architecture references/architecture-patterns.md Monolith vs microservices, serverless
File storage references/storage-patterns.md Media uploads, CDN, cloud storage

Decision Documentation

Record each decision in .agents/architect/decisions.md:

## [date] - [decision title]
Context: [what prompted this decision]
Options: [what was considered]
Decision: [what was chosen]
Rationale: [why]

Platform Considerations

Web + iOS Projects

  • Design API with mobile constraints in mind (bandwidth, battery)
  • Plan for offline-first on iOS with backend sync
  • Consider BFF (Backend for Frontend) if needs diverge significantly

iOS-Specific

  • Always check references/ios-patterns.md for native patterns
  • Auth must include Keychain storage and biometrics
  • Push notifications require APNs backend integration
Files

What ships with it

7 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. 8d ago First seen · 53 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A 6052ef04f9a6

Subscribe to this mod's changes

system-design is a skill published in the GitHub repository shahtuyakov/claude-setup (13 stars, last pushed 8mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 451 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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