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title: "System Design - Air Market"
description: "You are about to build something and are not sure how it should be shaped. This helps you think through the design - the architecture, the APIs, how the data is modelled, where one service ends and t…"
canonical: "https://airmarket.ai/app/system-design"
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[Air Market](/) / [Developer Tools](/category/devtools) / System Design

Skill by [Anthropic](/@anthropics)

# System Design

Think through the architecture before you commit to it

## What this does

You are about to build something and are not sure how it should be shaped. This helps you think through the design - the architecture, the APIs, how the data is modelled, where one service ends and the next begins. Reach for it when you are at the whiteboard stage rather than the coding stage.

### Top 3 things it does for you

- Work out the right architecture for something new
- Design an API
- Figure out where the service boundaries should go

## Information

**System Design at a glance**

|  |  |
| --- | --- |
| Kind | Skill |
| Publisher | [Anthropic](/@anthropics) |
| Category | [Developer Tools](/category/devtools) |
| Works with | Agent Skills - an open standard supported by 40+ agents |
| Size | 1 KB |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 |
| Repository | [anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins](https://github.com/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins/tree/9789ea78ad66e395a9c709146cacecdc14ce2abf/engineering/skills/system-design) |
| GitHub stars | 23,642 (as of Nov 2026) |

## Security report

**Verified.** AIR scanned this exact version of System Design and flagged nothing. AIR's verdict: **safe**.

**What System Design's check was run against**

|  |  |
| --- | --- |
| Commit | 9789ea78ad66e395a9c709146cacecdc14ce2abf |
| Content hash | 96df2797ae9194a0f7da7754ee13ac8fe6d38b0c670d481656bc0b8ee1706582 |
| Files read | [Browse the files at this exact commit](https://github.com/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins/blob/9789ea78ad66e395a9c709146cacecdc14ce2abf/engineering/skills/system-design/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 System Design](/security/system-design)

## About System Design

This is for the design stage - systems, services, and architectures, before any of it is code.

It covers API design, data modeling, and where service boundaries should fall, and picks up on questions like "how should we architect this" or "what's the right architecture for".

## What's inside

- SKILL.md - instructions

## Questions

### Is System Design safe to install?

AIR scanned this exact version of System Design and flagged nothing. AIR's verdict: safe. The verdict is named by the content that was read, at commit 9789ea78ad66, so it cannot drift onto a version nobody scanned. The full report is at https://airmarket.ai/security/system-design.

### How do I install System Design?

Open https://airmarket.ai/app/system-design 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/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins/tree/9789ea78ad66e395a9c709146cacecdc14ce2abf/engineering/skills/system-design. Install from that link, not the branch.

## Related on Air Market

- [More Developer Tools listings](/category/devtools)
- [Everything by Anthropic](/@anthropics)

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Canonical URL: <https://airmarket.ai/app/system-design>