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Claude Code Architecture

Quality score: 70/100 · Category: Engineering · Sub-category: architecture

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Self-reference guide for Claude Code's own architecture, configuration, and extension points. Use when needing to know where Claude Code stores its configuration files, skills, plugins, hooks, MCP servers, settings, or any other internal structure. Triggers on questions like "where do skills go?", "how do I configure hooks?", "where is the settings file?", or when creating/modifying Claude Code extensions.

What this skill does

Claude Code Architecture is a production-ready Claude Code skill (quality score 70/100) in the architecture sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/claude-code-architecture/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

When to invoke it: Use when needing to know where Claude Code stores its configuration files, skills, plugins, hooks, MCP servers, settings, or any other internal structure. Triggers on questions like "where do skills go?", "how do I configure hooks?", "where is the settings file?", or when creating/modifying Claude Code extensions.

Who uses this skill

The Claude Code Architecture skill is built for software engineers, backend developers, full-stack teams, and technical leads building and maintaining production systems. It is part of the open ClaudSkills registry, a community-curated catalog of 15,000+ capabilities you can install for Claude Code — the Claude CLI agent.

How to install

Free

Manual install (2 steps)

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/claude-code-architecture
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/claude-code-architecture/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/claude-code-architecture/SKILL.md

Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/claude-code-architecture/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/claude-code-architecture/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\claude-code-architecture\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.

Pro

One-click install via the desktop app

The ClaudSkills desktop app installs any skill directly into ~/.claude/skills/ with one click — no terminal required. Pro starts at $9/mo or $149 lifetime.

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