Team Topologies

Q: What is a Claude Code skill and how does the Team Topologies skill fit in?

A Claude Code skill is a SKILL.md file that lives under ~/.claude/skills/<name>/ and tells the Claude Code CLI agent how to perform a specific task (instructions, prompts, allowed tools). Skills are auto-discovered at session start. Team Topologies is one of 67,000+ skills indexed in the open ClaudSkills catalog, classified under the Product category. Learn more at https://claudskills.com/learn/what-is-skill-md/.

Category: Product · Sub-category: product-misc · Last updated: 2026-06-18

Organize business and technology teams for fast flow using Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais''s "Team Topologies". Use when the user mentions "team topologies", "Conway''s law", "platform team", "stream-aligned team", "team boundaries", "cognitive load", "how should we split teams", "org design", "who owns this service", or "team dependencies". Also trigger when reorganizing engineering teams, aligning team and service boundaries, splitting a monolith and deciding team ownership, reducing cross-team dependencies and handoffs, or designing an internal platform. Covers the four team types, three interaction modes, the inverse Conway maneuver, and fracture planes. For bounded contexts and domain boundaries, see domain-driven-design. For dependency direction inside a codebase, see clean-architecture.

About this skill (catalog notes)

Team Topologies includes pricing or quota commentary. At roughly 2,779 words the SKILL.md is on the longer end of the catalog distribution.

Source: skills.wondel.ai
License: MIT
Original author: wondelai
Indexed lastmod: 2026-06-18
Catalog position: Product · product-misc
Indexed related skills: 10

How Team Topologies fits the catalog

Team Topologies sits in the Product category under the product-misc sub-topic in the ClaudSkills catalog. There are 10 related skills indexed alongside it; comparing a few before installing usually reveals which fits your workflow best.

These notes are auto-generated from features detected in the SKILL.md file and from this catalog's structure — they aren't part of the source repository.

From the source SKILL.md

A team-first approach to organization design from Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais's Team Topologies: four fundamental team types, three interaction modes, and deliberate attention to Conway's law and team cognitive load. Use it to structure engineering organizations for fast flow of change — and to keep evolving them as the system, technology, and market shift.

What this skill does

Team Topologies is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the product-misc sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/team-topologies/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

When to invoke it: Use when the user mentions "team topologies", "Conway''s law", "platform team", "stream-aligned team", "team boundaries", "cognitive load", "how should we split teams", "org design", "who owns this service", or "team dependencies". Also trigger when reorganizing engineering teams, aligning team and service boundaries, splitting a monolith and deciding team ownership, reducing cross-team dependencies and handoffs, or designing an internal platform.

Who uses this skill

The Team Topologies Claude Code skill is built for product managers, product designers, and cross-functional teams planning, shipping, and measuring product features. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 119,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).

How to install

Free

Manual install (2 steps)

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

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

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

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Frequently asked questions

How do I install the Team Topologies Claude Code skill?

Install via the ClaudSkills desktop app (one click) or copy SKILL.md from the source repository to ~/.claude/skills/team-topologies/SKILL.md and restart Claude Code. Both flows are detailed at claudskills.com/install/.

What does the Team Topologies skill do?

Is this skill free to install?

Yes. ClaudSkills is an open registry — every skill keeps its source repository's license, and manual install via copy is free. ClaudSkills Pro ($9/mo, $79/yr, or $149 one-time) adds one-click install via the desktop app and a multi-signal Quality Score.

When should I use the Team Topologies skill?

Use Team Topologies when your Claude Code task falls under the Product category — specifically in the product misc area. Claude Code auto-discovers installed skills and invokes the right one based on the task description, so you can also ask Claude directly (e.g. "use Team Topologies" or describe the task and let Claude pick). Browse related skills at /category/product/.

What is a Claude Code skill and how does the Team Topologies skill fit in?

A Claude Code skill is a SKILL.md file that lives under ~/.claude/skills/<name>/ and tells the Claude Code CLI agent how to perform a specific task (instructions, prompts, allowed tools). Skills are auto-discovered at session start. Team Topologies is one of 67,000+ skills indexed in the open ClaudSkills catalog, classified under the Product category. Learn more at /learn/what-is-a-claude-skill/.

Attribution & license

Source: https://github.com/wondelai/skills/blob/HEAD/team-topologies/SKILL.md
License: MIT
Author: wondelai
Website: https://skills.wondel.ai

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APA

wondelai. (2026). Team Topologies [Claude Code skill]. ClaudSkills. https://claudskills.com/skills/team-topologies/

BibTeX

@misc{team-topologies-2026,
  author    = {wondelai},
  title     = {Team Topologies [Claude Code skill]},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {ClaudSkills},
  url       = {https://claudskills.com/skills/team-topologies/}
}

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