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architecture-designer

Use when designing new high-level system architecture, reviewing existing designs, or making architectural decisions. Invoke to create architecture diagrams, write Architecture Decision Records (ADRs), evaluate technology trade-offs, design component interactions, and plan for scalability. Use for system design, architecture review, microservices structuring, ADR authoring, scalability planning, and infrastructure pattern selection — distinct from code-level design patterns or database-only design tasks.

ScannedSkillSource: GitHub

11,943 stars +108 this week Updated 19d ago License MIT Context ≈133 tokens always loaded

81popular

Why this score

Stars

22/35

Usage (forks)

9/15

Upkeep

25/25

License

15/15

Owner history

10/10

This repo hosts 10 skills, so its 11,943 stars are split between them (about 1,194 each) for scoring.

Popularity score: 81/100 from public GitHub signals only. It shows how widely used and maintained this is, not how well it works. Not included yet: the fake-star check. The security scan is shown separately and doesn't change the score. How we rank

Security

Scanned Oct 20, 2026 at commit 36f3fe8052da, with Cisco's open-source skill-scanner.

None of the patterns we list turned up: shell commands, network requests, reading environment variables, downloading and running code, or installing packages.

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Install

mkdir -p .claude/skills/architecture-designer

curl -sL https://codeload.github.com/Jeffallan/claude-skills/tar.gz/36f3fe8052da7c57083783268c6ea3265d075265 | tar -xz -C .claude/skills/architecture-designer --strip-components=3 "claude-skills-36f3fe8052da7c57083783268c6ea3265d075265/skills/architecture-designer"

To remove it later:

rm -rf .claude/skills/architecture-designer

npx skills add Jeffallan/claude-skills --skill architecture-designer

Pinned to commit 36f3fe8052da as listed by GitHub.

Context cost: ≈133 tokens loaded every session (name and description), plus ≈1.2k tokens when the skill is used.

The Claude Code command downloads this skill folder at the pinned commit into .claude/skills/. The Skills CLI (npx skills) works with many agents but can't pin a version, so it installs whatever is current.

Used for

Engineering › Databases Engineering › DevOps & cloud Engineering › Architecture

Facts

Repo: Jeffallan/claude-skills
Stars: 11,943
Forks: 1,333
Last push: 2026-10-16 (19d ago)
License: MIT
Owner: Jeffallan · since 2016
Language: Python
Works with: Claude Code, Skills CLI