system-design

Name: system-design
Author: anthropics

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How to install system-design?

anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins/system-design

$npx -y skills add anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins --skill system-design

Installs into the current project.

Summary

Design systems, services, and architectures. Trigger with "design a system for", "how should we architect", "system design for", "what's the right architecture for", or when the user needs help with API design, data modeling, or service boundaries.

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SKILL.md

1	# System Design
2
3	Help design systems and evaluate architectural decisions.
4
5	## Framework
6
7	### 1. Requirements Gathering
8	- Functional requirements (what it does)
9	- Non-functional requirements (scale, latency, availability, cost)
10	- Constraints (team size, timeline, existing tech stack)
11
12	### 2. High-Level Design
13	- Component diagram
14	- Data flow
15	- API contracts
16	- Storage choices
17
18	### 3. Deep Dive
19	- Data model design
20	- API endpoint design (REST, GraphQL, gRPC)
21	- Caching strategy
22	- Queue/event design
23	- Error handling and retry logic
24
25	### 4. Scale and Reliability
26	- Load estimation
27	- Horizontal vs. vertical scaling
28	- Failover and redundancy
29	- Monitoring and alerting
30
31	### 5. Trade-off Analysis
32	- Every decision has trade-offs. Make them explicit.
33	- Consider: complexity, cost, team familiarity, time to market, maintainability
34
35	## Output
36
37	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.

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