software-architecture

software-architecture is a skill for Claude Code from sunnypatneedi/claude-starter-kit. It costs 38 tokens per session (4,750 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A software architecture guide for planning how an application is structured, using approaches such as MVC, microservices, and event-driven systems.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design system structure, assess scalability, apply SOLID principles, and record important decisions in architectural decision records.
Why use it?
It helps developers compare design trade-offs and keep a growing system understandable and maintainable. It also uses SOLID principles, which are guidelines for organizing object-oriented code.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the claude-starter-kit plugin — 42 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to design system structure, assess scalability, apply SOLID principles, and record important decisions in architectural decision records.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sunnypatneedi/claude-starter-kit/software-architecture
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 sunnypatneedi/claude-starter-kit --skill software-architecture
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sunnypatneedi/claude-starter-kit

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claude-starter-kit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 42 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 38 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,750 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 unknown 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 $0.00038 $0.04750
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.02375
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00950
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00475

Measured 10d ago against content hash 14960210a181, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

software-architecture 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 10d 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/engineering/software-architecture/SKILL.md · 954 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

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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. 10d ago First seen · 954 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A 14960210a181

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software-architecture is a skill published in the GitHub repository sunnypatneedi/claude-starter-kit (11 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 4,750 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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