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System Design skills for AI agents

8 practitioner-grade system design skills, each a focused Markdown document your agent loads into context on demand. Search them from Claude Desktop, Cursor or any MCP client, or pull one with the CLI.

$ npx skilldb search "system design"

All 8 skills

API Gateway Design
API gateway and Backend-for-Frontend (BFF) patterns for managing client-service communication
120 lines
Circuit Breaker
Circuit breaker and resilience patterns for building fault-tolerant distributed systems
118 lines
Database Scaling
Database scaling patterns including sharding, replication, and read replicas for high-throughput systems
120 lines
Distributed Caching
Distributed caching strategies for reducing latency and database load in large-scale systems
110 lines
Event-Driven
Event-driven architecture and CQRS patterns for reactive, decoupled distributed systems
106 lines
Message Queues
Message queue patterns including pub/sub, fan-out, and reliable delivery for asynchronous communication
117 lines
Microservices
Microservices architecture patterns for building independently deployable, loosely coupled services
107 lines
Rate Limiting Design
Rate limiting and throttling strategies for protecting distributed systems at scale
106 lines