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Google Cloud Solution Architecture

Guides an agent through requirements discovery and multi-product Google Cloud architecture design with user approval at each step.

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Repository
google/skills
Stars
21,782
Licence
Apache-2.0
Files
5 files

What it does

When installed, the agent follows a structured, phased process for designing a cloud system on Google Cloud. It first asks detailed questions about your goals, security, compliance, reliability, cost and existing systems, and does not suggest products until those are clear. It then produces a technical breakdown, architecture, validation plan and a presented solution, asking for your approval at each stage. The skill instructs the agent not to run generated scripts without explicit permission.

Great for

  • Engineers planning a new end-to-end workload or migration on Google Cloud who want a structured design process
  • Architects who want an agent to draft requirements, component breakdowns and diagrams for review
  • Teams that prefer to run validation and deployment commands themselves after reviewing them

Skip it if

  • Single-product questions, which the skill itself says should go to product-specific skills
  • Well-Architected Framework reviews or audits, which the skill says belong to a different skill (google-cloud-waf-*)
  • Production deployments where unreviewed generated scripts could change live infrastructure or incur costs, since the skill relies on the user approving and running them

Try asking

  • “Help me design an architecture for a new customer-facing order processing system on Google Cloud”
  • “I'm migrating our on-premises data warehouse to Google Cloud, walk me through requirements first”
  • “Create a technical decomposition and solution blueprint for a real-time analytics pipeline”
Step-by-step guide: how to use Google Cloud Solution ArchitectureInstall, first run, examples, tips and FAQs

Install in 3 steps

  1. 1

    Download the skill

    The ZIP contains the 5 original files, the Apache-2.0 licence and an attribution note.

    google-cloud-solution-architecture.zip
  2. 2

    Add it to your agent

    Claude Code (all projects)

    mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && unzip google-cloud-solution-architecture.zip -d ~/.claude/skills/

    Claude Code / Agent SDK (this project only)

    mkdir -p .claude/skills && unzip google-cloud-solution-architecture.zip -d .claude/skills/

    Claude apps (web/desktop): Settings → Capabilities → Skills → Upload skill, and choose the ZIP.

  3. 3

    Ask for the task

    No special command needed — the agent reads the skill's description and loads it when your request matches. Try one of the prompts above.

Get better results

  • Provide functional, security, compliance, reliability, cost and performance requirements up front to avoid repeated clarification rounds
  • Review each deliverable (decomposition, diagram, scripts) before approving, since the agent will wait for your sign-off
  • If you want validation run automatically, you must explicitly grant permission; otherwise ask for the commands to run yourself

What's inside

  • assets/output-template.md
  • references/attribution.md
  • references/best-practices-guides.md
  • references/decision-making-guides.md
  • SKILL.md

Redistributed unmodified from google/skills under the Apache-2.0 licence. The assessment was drafted with AI from the skill's files on 2026-10-29. Skills can instruct your agent to run code — read SKILL.md and any scripts before installing.