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title: "Architecture Patterns - Air Market"
description: "A backend where everything depends on everything gets harder to change every month. These are established ways of drawing the lines - Clean Architecture, Hexagonal, Domain-Driven Design - so each lay…"
canonical: "https://airmarket.ai/app/architecture-patterns"
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[Air Market](/) / [Developer Tools](/category/devtools) / Architecture Patterns

Skill by [Seth Hobson](/@wshobson)

# Architecture Patterns

Give a backend clear layers instead of tangled dependencies

## What this does

A backend where everything depends on everything gets harder to change every month. These are established ways of drawing the lines - Clean Architecture, Hexagonal, Domain-Driven Design - so each layer has a job and the dependencies point one way. Reach for it when starting a service or reshaping one that has grown tangled.

### Top 3 things it does for you

- Design a new microservice with clean architecture
- Break a monolith into bounded contexts
- Implement hexagonal or onion architecture

## Information

**Architecture Patterns at a glance**

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| Kind | Skill |
| Publisher | [Seth Hobson](/@wshobson) |
| Category | [Developer Tools](/category/devtools) |
| Works with | Agent Skills - an open standard supported by 40+ agents |
| Size | 33 KB |
| Licence | MIT |
| Repository | [wshobson/agents](https://github.com/wshobson/agents/tree/be57c0b2e3c05c528ca6132b87410b385718775f/plugins/backend-development/skills/architecture-patterns) |
| GitHub stars | 39,077 (as of Nov 2026) |
| Installs | 25,150, counted by skills.sh (Nov 2026) |

## Security report

**Verified.** AIR scanned this exact version of Architecture Patterns and recorded 0 findings and 2 flagged items. AIR's verdict: **safe**.

**What Architecture Patterns's check was run against**

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| Commit | be57c0b2e3c05c528ca6132b87410b385718775f |
| Content hash | 31bda190ee185e3a8a9344fda0a94c9727d9337c46704a443ec5c2acad50a7e8 |
| Files read | [Browse the files at this exact commit](https://github.com/wshobson/agents/blob/be57c0b2e3c05c528ca6132b87410b385718775f/plugins/backend-development/skills/architecture-patterns/SKILL.md) |

A scan is named by the exact content it read, not by a version number. A different version is a different artifact, and nothing here applies to a version AIR has not scanned.

[Read the full security report for Architecture Patterns](/security/architecture-patterns)

## About Architecture Patterns

This covers proven backend architecture patterns, including Clean Architecture, Hexagonal Architecture and Domain-Driven Design.

Use it when designing clean architecture for a new microservice, refactoring a monolith into bounded contexts, implementing hexagonal or onion architecture, or debugging dependency cycles between application layers.

## What's inside

- SKILL.md - instructions
- references/advanced-patterns.md - reference
- references/details.md - reference

## Questions

### Is Architecture Patterns safe to install?

AIR scanned this exact version of Architecture Patterns and recorded 0 findings and 2 flagged items. AIR's verdict: safe. The verdict is named by the content that was read, at commit be57c0b2e3c0, so it cannot drift onto a version nobody scanned. The full report is at https://airmarket.ai/security/architecture-patterns.

### How do I install Architecture Patterns?

Open https://airmarket.ai/app/architecture-patterns on Air Market and use the install action: Air Market hands Claude a prompt naming this exact skill, and Claude sets it up. Source, pinned to the exact commit this listing describes: https://github.com/wshobson/agents/tree/be57c0b2e3c05c528ca6132b87410b385718775f/plugins/backend-development/skills/architecture-patterns. Install from that link, not the branch.

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- [More Developer Tools listings](/category/devtools)
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