microservices-architect

An agent skill by Jeffallan, from Jeffallan/claude-skills. Tags: api, architecture, devops, microservices, performance, strategy.

What it does

Designs distributed system architectures, decomposes monoliths into bounded-context services, recommends communication patterns, and produces service boundary diagrams and resilience strategies. Use when designing distributed systems, decomposing monoliths, or implementing microservices patterns — including service boundaries, DDD, saga patterns, event sourcing, CQRS, service mesh, or distributed tracing.

Install

With the skills CLI, which installs into Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other agents:

npx skills add Jeffallan/claude-skills --skill microservices-architect

Or copy the skill folder into Claude Code's skills directory by hand (~/.claude/skills for every project, or .claude/skills inside one):

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Jeffallan/claude-skills
cp -r claude-skills/skills/microservices-architect ~/.claude/skills/microservices-architect

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Source

Repository

Jeffallan/claude-skills (all skills from this repository)

Path

skills/microservices-architect/SKILL.md

Branch

main

Updated

2026-09-19

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