Agent skill

Modular Design Principles

by tech-leads-club in tech-leads-club/agent-skills

Technology-agnostic guidance for modular systems: bounded contexts, clear boundaries, composability, state isolation, explicit contracts, failure containment, scaffolding workflows, split/merge…

Custom licenceAuto-check passedDevelopment

Install Modular Design Principles

skills CLI
$ npx skills add tech-leads-club/agent-skills --skill modular-design-principles -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install tech-leads-club/agent-skills modular-design-principles --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/tech-leads-club/agent-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/'packages/skills-catalog/skills/(architecture)/modular-design-principles' .claude/skills/modular-design-principles && 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
modular-design-principles
GitHub stars
7k
Token cost
~3.1k tokens
SKILL.md length
1,462 words
Files
2 (incl. references)
Skills in repo
74
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Custom licence

At a glance

Technology-agnostic guidance for modular systems: bounded contexts, clear boundaries, composability, state isolation, explicit contracts, failure containment, scaffolding workflows, split/merge…

  • Works in 8 steps: Colliding concepts — the same name or… → Reach-through persistence — one module… → Centralized data ownership — a single… → …
  • Reviewing module structure
  • SKILL.md covers What to load, Layered mental model, The ten principles and Typical violations (stated…, plus 6 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Modular Design Principles is an agent skill from tech-leads-club/agent-skills. Technology-agnostic guidance for modular systems: bounded contexts, clear boundaries, composability, state isolation, explicit contracts, failure containment, scaffolding workflows, split/merge criteria, sub-units inside a context, and compliance review signals. Use when designing or reviewing module structure, service boundaries, package layout, cross-cutting dependencies, "how should we split this?", modularity assessments, coupling between domains, greenfield context design, or architecture discussions without…

Its SKILL.md is about 3.1k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 2 other files, including reference files (for example `references/principles.md`).

It sits in Development, covering Domain-driven design, Project scaffolding and Microservices. The repository describes itself as: The secure, validated skill registry for professional AI coding agents. Extend Antigravity, Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot and more with absolute confidence.

When your agent uses it

  • Reviewing module structure
  • Service boundaries
  • Cross-cutting dependencies
  • How should we split this?

Example prompts

  • “how should we split this?”
  • “/modular-design-principles”

Workflow steps

8 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Colliding concepts — the same name or schema for different things in different modules, or duplicate “global” definitions that diverge…
  2. Reach-through persistence — one module reading or writing another module’s tables, buckets, or documents without going through an agreed…
  3. Centralized data ownership — a single persistence layer that registers and exposes all stores for all modules, encouraging hidden coupling.
  4. Logic at the edge — business rules in transport adapters (HTTP handlers, UI, CLI) instead of domain/application code.
  5. Edge talking to storage directly — adapters depending on low-level persistence APIs instead of use cases or application services.
  6. Unscoped transactions — writes that span boundaries without clear transaction ownership and failure semantics.
  7. Leaky exports — repositories, internal services, or implementation types exposed as the module’s public API.
  8. Facades that aren’t thin — “public” entry points that embed querying, mapping, or policy instead of delegating to the right layer inside…

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 6df68d5. 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

Modular Design Principles loads about 3.1k tokens when it runs, and up to ~4.8k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 225 tokens; SKILL.md has 1,462 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~225
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~3.1k
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~4.8k

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

Its licence (Custom licence) doesn't allow us to republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 1,462 words (~3,078 tokens).

“Use this skill when reasoning about structure and boundaries in any codebase. It intentionally avoids framework names, folder conventions, and tooling — map principles to your stack locally.”

— opening of SKILL.md by tech-leads-club, Custom licence
name
modular-design-principles

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

SKILL.md and 1 other file (references) in packages/skills-catalog/skills/(architecture)/modular-design-principles of tech-leads-club/agent-skills.

  • SKILL.md
  • references/principles.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 6df68d5

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Categories

Questions about Modular Design Principles

What does Modular Design Principles do?

Technology-agnostic guidance for modular systems: bounded contexts, clear boundaries, composability, state isolation, explicit contracts, failure containment, scaffolding workflows, split/merge…. Modular Design Principles is an agent skill from tech-leads-club/agent-skills. Technology-agnostic guidance for modular systems: bounded contexts, clear boundaries, composability, state isolation, explicit contracts, failure containment, scaffolding workflows, split/merge criteria, sub-units inside a context, and compliance review signals.

When should I use Modular Design Principles?

Modular Design Principles fits situations like: reviewing module structure; service boundaries; cross-cutting dependencies; how should we split this?.

How do I install Modular Design Principles in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add tech-leads-club/agent-skills --skill modular-design-principles -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (packages/skills-catalog/skills/(architecture)/modular-design-principles in tech-leads-club/agent-skills) into .claude/skills/modular-design-principles in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Modular Design Principles in Codex?

Run `npx skills add tech-leads-club/agent-skills --skill modular-design-principles -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (packages/skills-catalog/skills/(architecture)/modular-design-principles in tech-leads-club/agent-skills) into .agents/skills/modular-design-principles in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Modular Design Principles 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 tech-leads-club/agent-skills --skill modular-design-principles -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/modular-design-principles, .gemini/skills/modular-design-principles, .github/skills/modular-design-principles and .opencode/skills/modular-design-principles in your project.

What does Modular Design Principles need to run?

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

Does Modular Design Principles 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 Modular Design Principles 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 Modular Design Principles use?

Modular Design Principles has a licence file (the repository's licence) that doesn't match a standard licence. Read it on GitHub before reusing the skill.

How many tokens does Modular Design Principles use?

About 3.1k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 12k 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 1.7k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

What are the alternatives to Modular Design Principles?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Modular Design Principles: Spring Boot Project Creator (giuseppe-trisciuoglio/developer-kit, 357 stars), Add Module (fullstackhero/dotnet-starter-kit, 6.8k stars), Scaffold (codewithmukesh/dotnet-claude-kit, 756 stars) and Architect Review (AratKruglik/claude-laravel, 155 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Modular Design Principles?

tech-leads-club (a GitHub organization) maintains it in tech-leads-club/agent-skills, which has 7,045 GitHub stars. The repository holds 74 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 9, 2026.

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