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Distributed Systems Design — Design skill for Claude Code

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Guides distributed system design using a structured 4-step framework.

How to install Distributed Systems Design

Installs to ~/.claude/skills/ryanthedev-systems-design.skill-distributed-systems-design/SKILL.md

Terminal
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/ryanthedev-systems-design.skill-distributed-systems-design && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ryanthedev/systems-design.skill/HEAD/commands/distributed-systems-design.md -o ~/.claude/skills/ryanthedev-systems-design.skill-distributed-systems-design/SKILL.md

Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.

What Distributed Systems Design does

description: "Guides distributed system design using a structured 4-step framework. CHECKER mode audits existing designs. APPLIER mode walks through design step-by-step. Use when: system design, architecture review, scaling, capacity planning." argument-hint: "[design prompt or system to review]" allowed-tools: ["Bash", "Glob", "Grep", "Read", "Edit", "Write", "Agent", "Skill", "AskUserQuestion"]

/systems-design:distributed-systems-design

Load the skill from `skills/distributed-syste

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