Design Patterns

by wasabeef

Design Patterns is a Quality skill for Claude Code, published by wasabeef in claude-code-cookbook.

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Install Design Patterns

Copy Design 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/wasabeef/claude-code-cookbook/tree/main/plugins/en/skills/design-patterns ~/.claude/skills/design-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/wasabeef/claude-code-cookbook.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: plugins/en/skills/design-patterns/SKILL.md in wasabeef/claude-code-cookbook
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/design-patterns
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Quality — 1354 skills

What Design Patterns does

Design Patterns suggests applicable software design patterns and checks code for SOLID compliance and anti-patterns. Use it to evaluate existing architecture, propose refactors, and get example implementations.

Design Patterns is cataloged under Quality on DirSkills. Design Patterns comes from a repository tagged claude-code.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Suggest design patterns and evaluate SOLID principles

Suggests design patterns for your code and checks if it follows SOLID principles.

Usage

/design-patterns [analysis_target] [options]

Options

--suggest: Suggest applicable patterns (default)
--analyze: Analyze existing pattern usage
--refactor: Generate refactoring proposals
--solid: Check compliance with SOLID principles
--anti-patterns: Detect anti-patterns

Basic Examples

# Analyze patterns for entire project
/design-patterns

# Suggest patterns for specific file
/design-patterns src/services/user.js --suggest

# Check SOLID principles
/design-patterns --solid

# Detect anti-patterns
/design-patterns --anti-patterns

Pattern Categories

1. Creational Patterns

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

Commands Design Patterns provides

Slash commands named in this skill’s SKILL.md, listed in the order they first appear.

/design-patterns

Frequently asked about Design Patterns

What else does wasabeef publish alongside Design Patterns?
Design Patterns is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from wasabeef/claude-code-cookbook, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Analyze Dependencies, Analyze Performance and Check Fact. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Design Patterns does, and is maintained by wasabeef in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the wasabeef/claude-code-cookbook page.
How does Design Patterns compare to other Quality skills?
Design Patterns ranks #774 by stars among the 1354 Quality skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Benchmark, Benchmark Optimization Loop and API Design Patterns. 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 Design Patterns against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.