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software-patterns
Compare tradeoffs and recommend architectural patterns — dependency injection, service-oriented architecture, repository, domain events, circuit breaker, and anti-corruption layer. Use when choosing between design patterns, planning microservices boundaries, evaluating system design alternatives, or asking 'which pattern should I use' for a specific coupling or resilience problem.
Works with
Install in three steps
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Download the ZIP
One file per agent, plus INSTALL.md with the exact paths below.
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Claude Code: copy SKILL.md into your skills folder
.claude/skills/software-patterns/SKILL.md # this project ~/.claude/skills/software-patterns/SKILL.md # every project
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Other agents: use the matching file
skill.mdc goes in Cursor’s .cursor/rules/. AGENTS.md works as GitHub Copilot instructions, a legacy .cursorrules, or a Codex / Gemini CLI instructions file.
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