Design Principles

Quality score: 70/100 · Category: General · Sub-category: design-creative

Explains distributed-systems and database principles — CAP, PACELC, consistency models (linearizable/causal/eventual), consensus (Raft/Paxos/quorums), ACID vs BASE, idempotency, Bloom/HyperLogLog/Count-Min/Merkle. Auto-activates when the user mentions these terms or asks "why does X happen in distributed systems". Grounded in DDIA ch. 5, 7, 9.

What this skill does

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

Who uses this skill

The Design Principles skill is built for Claude Code users and developers across all disciplines looking for general-purpose AI assistance. 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/design-principles
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/design-principles/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/design-principles/SKILL.md

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

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/design-principles/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\design-principles\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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