microservices-patterns

microservices-patterns is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from wpank/ai. It costs 4 tokens per session (2,743 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A guide to designing microservices, separate services that work together as one application. It covers splitting responsibilities, communication between services, data management, and handling failures.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when splitting an application into services, choosing how services communicate, managing data across services, or designing for partial failures.
Why use it?
It helps avoid a distributed monolith, where services are separated but still tightly dependent on each other. Clear boundaries and resilience patterns make failures and changes easier to manage.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — body not stored (licence); the path alone says nothing. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it when splitting an application into services, choosing how services communicate, managing data across services, or designing for partial failures.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/wpank/ai/microservices-patterns
View source ↗ wpank/ai
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 wpank/ai --skill microservices-patterns
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wpank/ai

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 4 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,743 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 $0.00004 $0.02743
Opus 5.5 $0.00002 $0.01097
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00001 $0.00549
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00274

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 83c46cdbd197, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

microservices-patterns 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 1mo 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/backend/microservices-patterns/SKILL.md · 427 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 1mo ago First seen · 427 lines · 4 tokens per session scan A 83c46cdbd197

Subscribe to this mod's changes

microservices-patterns is a skill published in the GitHub repository wpank/ai (12 stars, last pushed 8mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 4 tokens to every session and 2,743 once invoked, about $0.0000 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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