ClaudSkills / Engineering / architecture

Software Design

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

Software design principles, patterns, and architecture from SOLID through distributed systems. Covers the five SOLID principles with violations and fixes, DRY/KISS/YAGNI heuristics, separation of concerns, 12 GoF design patterns organized by intent (creational, structural, behavioral), architectural patterns (MVC, MVP, MVVM, layered, hexagonal, microservices, event-driven), coupling and cohesion metrics, dependency injection, and the design decision framework for choosing between competing approaches. Use when making design decisions, reviewing architecture, refactoring code, or teaching software engineering principles.

What this skill does

Software Design 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/software-design/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

When to invoke it: Use when making design decisions, reviewing architecture, refactoring code, or teaching software engineering principles.

Who uses this skill

The Software Design 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/software-design
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/software-design/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/software-design/SKILL.md

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

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