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Cloud design patterns for distributed systems architecture covering 42 industry-standard patterns across reliability, performance, messaging, security, and deployment categories.
Install Cloud Design Patterns
$ npx skills add github/awesome-copilot --skill cloud-design-patterns -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install github/awesome-copilot cloud-design-patterns --agent claude-codeProject scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/github/awesome-copilot.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/cloud-design-patterns .claude/skills/cloud-design-patterns && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.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/
Install the "cloud-design-patterns" agent skill from https://github.com/github/awesome-copilot/tree/main/skills/cloud-design-patterns into .claude/skills/cloud-design-patterns/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "cloud-design-patterns", then confirm the skill loads.Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$skill-installer install https://github.com/github/awesome-copilot/tree/main/skills/cloud-design-patternsType this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.
$ npx skills add github/awesome-copilot --skill cloud-design-patterns -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install github/awesome-copilot cloud-design-patterns --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/github/awesome-copilot.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/cloud-design-patterns .agents/skills/cloud-design-patterns && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "cloud-design-patterns" agent skill from https://github.com/github/awesome-copilot/tree/main/skills/cloud-design-patterns into .agents/skills/cloud-design-patterns/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "cloud-design-patterns", then confirm the skill loads.Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add github/awesome-copilot --skill cloud-design-patterns -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install github/awesome-copilot cloud-design-patterns --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/github/awesome-copilot.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/cloud-design-patterns .cursor/skills/cloud-design-patterns && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.
Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/
Install the "cloud-design-patterns" agent skill from https://github.com/github/awesome-copilot/tree/main/skills/cloud-design-patterns into .cursor/skills/cloud-design-patterns/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "cloud-design-patterns", then confirm the skill loads.Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gemini skills install https://github.com/github/awesome-copilot.git --path skills/cloud-design-patterns--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.
$ npx skills add github/awesome-copilot --skill cloud-design-patterns -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install github/awesome-copilot cloud-design-patterns --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/github/awesome-copilot.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/cloud-design-patterns .gemini/skills/cloud-design-patterns && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.
Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "cloud-design-patterns" agent skill from https://github.com/github/awesome-copilot/tree/main/skills/cloud-design-patterns into .gemini/skills/cloud-design-patterns/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "cloud-design-patterns", then confirm the skill loads.Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gh skill install github/awesome-copilot cloud-design-patternsInstalls for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ npx skills add github/awesome-copilot --skill cloud-design-patterns -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/github/awesome-copilot.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/cloud-design-patterns .github/skills/cloud-design-patterns && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.
GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "cloud-design-patterns" agent skill from https://github.com/github/awesome-copilot/tree/main/skills/cloud-design-patterns into .github/skills/cloud-design-patterns/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "cloud-design-patterns", then confirm the skill loads.GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add github/awesome-copilot --skill cloud-design-patterns -a opencodeOpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.
$ gh skill install github/awesome-copilot cloud-design-patterns --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/github/awesome-copilot.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/cloud-design-patterns .opencode/skills/cloud-design-patterns && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.
OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "cloud-design-patterns" agent skill from https://github.com/github/awesome-copilot/tree/main/skills/cloud-design-patterns into .opencode/skills/cloud-design-patterns/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "cloud-design-patterns", then confirm the skill loads.OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
Facts
- Skill name
cloud-design-patterns- GitHub stars
- 40k
- Used in
- 1 other repo
- Token cost
- ~1.1k tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 432 words
- Files
- 10 (incl. references)
- Skills in repo
- 417
- Repo updated
- First seen
- Licence
- MIT
At a glance
Cloud design patterns for distributed systems architecture covering 42 industry-standard patterns across reliability, performance, messaging, security, and deployment categories.
- Implementing distributed system architectures
- SKILL.md covers How Cloud Design Patterns…, References, Pattern Categories at a Glance and External Links
- Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
- Tasks that involve Cloud architecture
What it does
Cloud Design Patterns is an agent skill from github/awesome-copilot, published by the product's own GitHub organization. Cloud design patterns for distributed systems architecture covering 42 industry-standard patterns across reliability, performance, messaging, security, and deployment categories. Use when designing, reviewing, or implementing distributed system architectures.
Its SKILL.md is about 1.1k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 10 other files, including reference files (for example `references/architecture-design.md`, `references/azure-service-mappings.md` and `references/best-practices.md`).
It sits in DevOps & Cloud, covering Cloud architecture. The repository describes itself as: Community-contributed instructions, agents, skills, and configurations to help you make the most of GitHub Copilot. The licence is MIT.
When your agent uses it
- Implementing distributed system architectures
- Tasks that involve Cloud architecture
Example prompts
- “/cloud-design-patterns”
What it can do on your machine
Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 727ff2e. 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
Links to these hosts (documentation or services it may open):
learn.microsoft.com
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
Cloud Design Patterns loads about 1.1k tokens when it runs, and up to ~8.8k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 70 tokens; SKILL.md has 432 words of instructions outside code blocks.
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 github/awesome-copilot at commit 727ff2e, republished under its MIT licence (© github). 432 words, ~1,139 tokens.
Download SKILL.mdSave it as
.claude/skills/cloud-design-patterns/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 9 other files; get the full folder from GitHub.- name
- cloud-design-patterns
- description
- Cloud design patterns for distributed systems architecture covering 42 industry-standard patterns across reliability, performance, messaging, security, and deployment categories. Use when designing, reviewing, or implementing distributed system architectures.
Cloud Design Patterns
Architects design workloads by integrating platform services, functionality, and code to meet both functional and nonfunctional requirements. To design effective workloads, you must understand these requirements and select topologies and methodologies that address the challenges of your workload's constraints. Cloud design patterns provide solutions to many common challenges.
System design heavily relies on established design patterns. You can design infrastructure, code, and distributed systems by using a combination of these patterns. These patterns are crucial for building reliable, highly secure, cost-optimized, operationally efficient, and high-performing applications in the cloud.
The following cloud design patterns are technology-agnostic, which makes them suitable for any distributed system. You can apply these patterns across Azure, other cloud platforms, on-premises setups, and hybrid environments.
How Cloud Design Patterns Enhance the Design Process
Cloud workloads are vulnerable to the fallacies of distributed computing, which are common but incorrect assumptions about how distributed systems operate. Examples of these fallacies include:
- The network is reliable.
- Latency is zero.
- Bandwidth is infinite.
- The network is secure.
- Topology doesn't change.
- There's one administrator.
- Component versioning is simple.
- Observability implementation can be delayed.
These misconceptions can result in flawed workload designs. Design patterns don't eliminate these misconceptions but help raise awareness, provide compensation strategies, and provide mitigations. Each cloud design pattern has trade-offs. Focus on why you should choose a specific pattern instead of how to implement it.
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References
| Reference | When to load |
|---|---|
| Reliability & Resilience Patterns | Ambassador, Bulkhead, Circuit Breaker, Compensating Transaction, Retry, Health Endpoint Monitoring, Leader Election, Saga, Sequential Convoy |
| Performance Patterns | Async Request-Reply, Cache-Aside, CQRS, Index Table, Materialized View, Priority Queue, Queue-Based Load Leveling, Rate Limiting, Sharding, Throttling |
| Messaging & Integration Patterns | Choreography, Claim Check, Competing Consumers, Messaging Bridge, Pipes and Filters, Publisher-Subscriber, Scheduler Agent Supervisor |
| Architecture & Design Patterns | Anti-Corruption Layer, Backends for Frontends, Gateway Aggregation/Offloading/Routing, Sidecar, Strangler Fig |
| Deployment & Operational Patterns | Compute Resource Consolidation, Deployment Stamps, External Configuration Store, Geode, Static Content Hosting |
| Security Patterns | Federated Identity, Quarantine, Valet Key |
| Event-Driven Architecture Patterns | Event Sourcing |
| Best Practices & Pattern Selection | Selecting appropriate patterns, Well-Architected Framework alignment, documentation, monitoring |
| Azure Service Mappings | Common Azure services for each pattern category |
Pattern Categories at a Glance
| Category | Patterns | Focus |
|---|---|---|
| Reliability & Resilience | 9 patterns | Fault tolerance, self-healing, graceful degradation |
| Performance | 10 patterns | Caching, scaling, load management, data optimization |
| Messaging & Integration | 7 patterns | Decoupling, event-driven communication, workflow coordination |
| Architecture & Design | 7 patterns | System boundaries, API gateways, migration strategies |
| Deployment & Operational | 5 patterns | Infrastructure management, geo-distribution, configuration |
| Security | 3 patterns | Identity, access control, content validation |
| Event-Driven Architecture | 1 pattern | Event sourcing and audit trails |
External Links
© github, 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 9 other files (references) in skills/cloud-design-patterns of github/awesome-copilot.
- SKILL.md
- references/architecture-design.md
- references/azure-service-mappings.md
- references/best-practices.md
- references/deployment-operational.md
- references/event-driven.md
- references/messaging-integration.md
- references/performance.md
- references/reliability-resilience.md
- references/security.md
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 727ff2e
Used in 1 other repository
We found 1 copy of this SKILL.md (exact, near-identical or edited) in other folders, from 1 other GitHub owner. This page covers the copy in github/awesome-copilot, which our catalogue first saw on October 7, 2026.
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What does Cloud Design Patterns do?
Cloud design patterns for distributed systems architecture covering 42 industry-standard patterns across reliability, performance, messaging, security, and deployment categories. Cloud Design Patterns is an agent skill from github/awesome-copilot, published by the product's own GitHub organization. Cloud design patterns for distributed systems architecture covering 42 industry-standard patterns across reliability, performance, messaging, security, and deployment categories.
When should I use Cloud Design Patterns?
Cloud Design Patterns fits situations like: implementing distributed system architectures; tasks that involve Cloud architecture.
How do I install Cloud Design Patterns in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add github/awesome-copilot --skill cloud-design-patterns -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/cloud-design-patterns in github/awesome-copilot) into .claude/skills/cloud-design-patterns in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install Cloud Design Patterns in Codex?
Run `npx skills add github/awesome-copilot --skill cloud-design-patterns -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/cloud-design-patterns in github/awesome-copilot) into .agents/skills/cloud-design-patterns in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use Cloud Design Patterns 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 github/awesome-copilot --skill cloud-design-patterns -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/cloud-design-patterns, .gemini/skills/cloud-design-patterns, .github/skills/cloud-design-patterns and .opencode/skills/cloud-design-patterns in your project.
What does Cloud Design Patterns need to run?
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Cloud Design Patterns is instructions for the agent only.
Does Cloud Design Patterns access the network?
SKILL.md names 1 domain. As links in the text: learn.microsoft.com. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.
Is Cloud Design Patterns 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 Cloud Design Patterns use?
Cloud Design Patterns is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.
How many tokens does Cloud Design Patterns use?
About 1.1k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.6k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 7.6k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.
What are the alternatives to Cloud Design Patterns?
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Cloud Design Patterns: Cloud Cost Optimization (wshobson/agents, 40k stars), AWS Cloud Advisor (tech-leads-club/agent-skills, 7k stars), Dangling DNS Finder (anirudhbiyani/findmytakeover, 180 stars) and Azure Bicep Skill (timothywarner-org/claude-code, 224 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
Who maintains Cloud Design Patterns?
github (a GitHub organization, an official publisher) maintains it in github/awesome-copilot, which has 39,748 GitHub stars. The repository holds 417 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 7, 2026.
Source: github/awesome-copilot on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.