Architecture Patterns

Architecture Patterns is a DevOps skill for Claude Code, published by wshobson in agents.

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Install Architecture Patterns

Copy Architecture Patterns into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/wshobson/agents/tree/main/plugins/backend-development/skills/architecture-patterns ~/.claude/skills/architecture-patterns

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/wshobson/agents.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: plugins/backend-development/skills/architecture-patterns/SKILL.md in wshobson/agents
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/architecture-patterns
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: DevOps — 798 skills

What Architecture Patterns does

Architecture Patterns provides patterns for Clean Architecture, Hexagonal Architecture, and Domain-Driven Design to build maintainable, testable, and scalable backend services. Use it when designing new services, refactoring monoliths, establishing bounded contexts, or debugging dependency cycles.

Architecture Patterns is cataloged under DevOps on DirSkills. Architecture Patterns comes from a repository tagged agent-skills, agentic-ai, agents, ai-agents and anthropic.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Architecture Patterns

Master proven backend architecture patterns including Clean Architecture, Hexagonal Architecture, and Domain-Driven Design to build maintainable, testable, and scalable systems.

Given: a service boundary or module to architect. Produces: layered structure with clear dependency rules, interface definitions, and test boundaries.

When to Use This Skill

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Architecture Patterns

What else does wshobson publish alongside Architecture Patterns?
Architecture Patterns is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from wshobson/agents, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include API Design Principles, Before You Build and Block No-Verify Hook. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Architecture Patterns does, and is maintained by wshobson in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the wshobson/agents page.
How does Architecture Patterns compare to other DevOps skills?
Architecture Patterns ranks #36 by stars among the 798 DevOps skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Backend Patterns, API Connector Builder and Migration. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Architecture Patterns against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.