Agent skill

Domain Driven Design

by ciembor in ciembor/agent-rules-books

Apply Eric Evans-inspired DDD rules when modeling a complex domain, defining bounded contexts, protecting ubiquitous language, or designing aggregates.

MITAuto-check passedDevelopment

Install Domain Driven Design

skills CLI
$ npx skills add ciembor/agent-rules-books --skill domain-driven-design -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install ciembor/agent-rules-books domain-driven-design --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ciembor/agent-rules-books.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/domain-driven-design .claude/skills/domain-driven-design && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
domain-driven-design
GitHub stars
2.9k
Token cost
~177 tokens
SKILL.md length
55 words
Files
4
Skills in repo
14
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Apply Eric Evans-inspired DDD rules when modeling a complex domain, defining bounded contexts, protecting ubiquitous language, or designing aggregates.

  • Tasks that involve Domain-driven design
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Domain Driven Design is an agent skill from ciembor/agent-rules-books. Apply Eric Evans-inspired DDD rules when modeling a complex domain, defining bounded contexts, protecting ubiquitous language, or designing aggregates.

Its SKILL.md is about 180 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 3 other files (for example `domain-driven-design.md`, `domain-driven-design.mini.md` and `domain-driven-design.nano.md`).

It sits in Development, covering Domain-driven design. The repository describes itself as: AGENTS.md rules / skills for AI coding agents: Codex, Cursor & Claude Code. Inspired by Clean Code, Refactoring, DDD, Clean Architecture and DDIA programming books. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Tasks that involve Domain-driven design

Example prompts

  • “/domain-driven-design”

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 893a88a. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Domain Driven Design loads about 177 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 43 tokens; SKILL.md has 55 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~43
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~177

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from ciembor/agent-rules-books at commit 893a88a, republished under its MIT licence (© ciembor). 55 words, ~177 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/domain-driven-design/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 3 other files; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
domain-driven-design
description
Apply Eric Evans-inspired DDD rules when modeling a complex domain, defining bounded contexts, protecting ubiquitous language, or designing aggregates.
license
MIT

Domain-Driven Design Skill

Use this skill when a task involves strategic domain modeling, ubiquitous language, bounded contexts, context mapping, aggregates, repositories, domain services, or model-driven design.

Before making design or code decisions, read and apply domain-driven-design.mini.md. Use domain-driven-design.md only as a deeper reference when the mini rules are not enough for the current domain-modeling tradeoff.

© ciembor, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 3 other files in domain-driven-design of ciembor/agent-rules-books.

  • SKILL.md
  • domain-driven-design.md
  • domain-driven-design.mini.md
  • domain-driven-design.nano.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 893a88a

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Domain Modelingbrim-borium/spotify_sdk1665 repos~806Automated safety check: PassApache-2.0
Domain Modeling and Glossarywindmill-labs/windmill18k—~622Automated safety check: PassCustom licence

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Categories

Questions about Domain Driven Design

What does Domain Driven Design do?

Apply Eric Evans-inspired DDD rules when modeling a complex domain, defining bounded contexts, protecting ubiquitous language, or designing aggregates. Domain Driven Design is an agent skill from ciembor/agent-rules-books. Apply Eric Evans-inspired DDD rules when modeling a complex domain, defining bounded contexts, protecting ubiquitous language, or designing aggregates.

When should I use Domain Driven Design?

Domain Driven Design fits situations like: tasks that involve Domain-driven design.

How do I install Domain Driven Design in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add ciembor/agent-rules-books --skill domain-driven-design -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (domain-driven-design in ciembor/agent-rules-books) into .claude/skills/domain-driven-design in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Domain Driven Design in Codex?

Run `npx skills add ciembor/agent-rules-books --skill domain-driven-design -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (domain-driven-design in ciembor/agent-rules-books) into .agents/skills/domain-driven-design in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Domain Driven Design in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add ciembor/agent-rules-books --skill domain-driven-design -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/domain-driven-design, .gemini/skills/domain-driven-design, .github/skills/domain-driven-design and .opencode/skills/domain-driven-design in your project.

What does Domain Driven Design need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Domain Driven Design is instructions for the agent only.

Does Domain Driven Design access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Domain Driven Design safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Domain Driven Design use?

Domain Driven Design is published under the MIT licence (declared in SKILL.md). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Domain Driven Design use?

About 177 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 708 characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Domain Driven Design?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Domain Driven Design: Domain Modeling (fossasia/eventyay-interpretation, 1.6k stars), Architecture Governance (zai-org/ZCode, 7.5k stars), Evolutionary Modular Architecture (tech-leads-club/agent-skills, 7k stars) and Domain Modeling (brim-borium/spotify_sdk, 166 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Domain Driven Design?

ciembor (a GitHub user) maintains it in ciembor/agent-rules-books, which has 2,921 GitHub stars. The repository holds 14 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 10, 2026.

Source: ciembor/agent-rules-books on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.