Architecture Patterns

Architecture Patterns is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by secondsky in claude-skills.

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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/secondsky/claude-skills/tree/main/plugins/architecture-patterns/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/secondsky/claude-skills.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: plugins/architecture-patterns/skills/architecture-patterns/SKILL.md in secondsky/claude-skills
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/architecture-patterns
Collection: One of 24 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2970 skills

What Architecture Patterns does

Architecture Patterns explains Clean Architecture, Hexagonal Architecture, and Domain-Driven Design for backend systems. Use it when designing new services or refactoring code for clearer boundaries and easier testing.

Architecture Patterns is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Architecture Patterns comes from a repository tagged claude-code, claude-code-commands, claude-code-hooks, claude-code-plugin and claude-code-plugins.

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.

When to Use This Skill

Designing new backend systems from scratch
Refactoring monolithic applications for better maintainability
Establishing architecture standards for your team
Migrating from tightly coupled to loosely coupled architectures
Implementing domain-driven design principles
Creating testable and mockable codebases
Planning microservices decomposition

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

Frequently asked about Architecture Patterns

What else does secondsky publish alongside Architecture Patterns?
Architecture Patterns is one of 24 skills that DirSkills catalogs from secondsky/claude-skills, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include API Authentication, API Changelog & Versioning and API Contract Testing. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Architecture Patterns does, and is maintained by secondsky in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the secondsky/claude-skills page.
How does Architecture Patterns compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Architecture Patterns ranks #2653 by stars among the 2970 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. 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.