system-design

system-design is a skill for Claude Code from sun2443/designer-skills. It costs 55 tokens per session (283 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of system-design, Apache-2.0.

A system-design guide for planning software architecture, including services, APIs, data storage, and how information moves between parts.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for designing APIs, data models, service boundaries, caching, queues, error handling, and monitoring plans.
Why use it?
It helps turn vague architecture questions into explicit requirements, trade-offs, and decisions about scale, reliability, cost, and complexity.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the engineering plugin — 10 skills shipped together

Good fit It is for designing APIs, data models, service boundaries, caching, queues, error handling, and monitoring plans.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sun2443/designer-skills/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 sun2443/designer-skills --skill system-design
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sun2443/designer-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install engineering, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 55 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 283 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 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00055 $0.00283
Opus 5.5 $0.00022 $0.00113
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00011 $0.00057
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00028

Measured 13d ago against content hash 8f28eca99f22, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 13d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to system-design — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

engineering/skills/system-design/SKILL.md · 43 lines

What it actually says

System Design

Help design systems and evaluate architectural decisions.

Framework

1. Requirements Gathering

  • Functional requirements (what it does)
  • Non-functional requirements (scale, latency, availability, cost)
  • Constraints (team size, timeline, existing tech stack)

2. High-Level Design

  • Component diagram
  • Data flow
  • API contracts
  • Storage choices

3. Deep Dive

  • Data model design
  • API endpoint design (REST, GraphQL, gRPC)
  • Caching strategy
  • Queue/event design
  • Error handling and retry logic

4. Scale and Reliability

  • Load estimation
  • Horizontal vs. vertical scaling
  • Failover and redundancy
  • Monitoring and alerting

5. Trade-off Analysis

  • Every decision has trade-offs. Make them explicit.
  • Consider: complexity, cost, team familiarity, time to market, maintainability

Output

Produce clear, structured design documents with diagrams (ASCII or described), explicit assumptions, and trade-off analysis. Always identify what you'd revisit as the system grows.

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. 13d ago First seen · 43 lines · 55 tokens per session scan A 8f28eca99f22

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system-design is a skill published in the GitHub repository sun2443/designer-skills (0 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 283 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to system-design, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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