Individual skill
system-design
Design scalable distributed systems using structured approaches for load balancing, caching, database scaling, and message queues. Use when the user mentions "system design", "scale this", "high availability", "rate limiter", "design a URL shortener", "system design interview", "capacity planning", or "distributed architecture". Also trigger when estimating infrastructure requirements, choosing between microservices and monoliths, or designing for millions of concurrent users. Covers common system designs and back-of-the-envelope estimation. For data fundamentals, see ddia-systems. For resilience, see release-it.
system-design/SKILL.md
Source commit f3e82a7e2bfbed54fc2b4a715a1986f5f467e827
What was checked
- Matches the observed repository HEAD
- Yes
- Scanner rules are current
- No
- Repository scan complete
- No
- Skill scan complete
- No
- Observed behavior
- Not checked yet
- Last checked
- Nov 5, 2026
These are observations at the recorded commit, not a guarantee of safety. Review the source before running it.
Install this skill
Choose an agent in your Stack or copy a command below. Commands fetch the pinned commit and copy only this skill directory. Existing destinations are refused. Copying a command does not install anything.
An install command is unavailable: current rules, complete repository and skill scans, an eligible behavior level and a permitted license are required.
Repository context
- Repository stars (not skill ratings)
- 277
- Repository last updated
- Jun 22, 2026
- License
- Not available
Observed agent integration: No specific integration evidence. Standard SKILL.md installation does not imply verified compatibility.
- data Derived category
- engineering Derived category
- design Derived category
- devops Derived category
- data-databases Derived category
Files and excerpt
File metadata and permitted, redacted excerpts come from the recorded scan. Source links are pinned to that commit.
Browse files
SKILL.mdcore · 18,773 bytesSKILL.mdcore · 18,773 bytesreferences/building-blocks.mddoc · 11,730 bytesreferences/common-designs.mddoc · 12,139 bytesreferences/database-scaling.mddoc · 11,386 bytesreferences/estimation-numbers.mddoc · 8,617 bytesreferences/four-step-process.mddoc · 10,151 bytesreferences/reliability-operations.mddoc · 13,914 bytes
No licensed excerpt is available. You can inspect the pinned source.