/service-decomposition
This skill should be used when the user asks "monolith vs microservices", how to "split into services", set "service boundaries", find the right "service granularity", design an "API gateway / BFF", do "service discovery" or add a "service mesh", or worries that services are
$ npx -y skills add proyecto26/system-design-skills --skill service-decomposition --agent claude-codeHow it fires
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- Fires itselfAuto-invocation. Claude auto-loads it when your prompt matches the work.
- You can call itInvoke it directly when you want it.
- Slash command
/service-decomposition
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This skill should be used when the user asks "monolith vs microservices", how to "split into services", set "service boundaries", find the right "service granularity", design an "API gateway / BFF", do "service discovery" or add a "service mesh", or worries that services are
Design scalable systems the way strong engineers actually do — by reasoning, not by memorizing diagrams.
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Open skill - /blob-store
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Open skill - /caching
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