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Microservices Patterns

Design microservice architectures with clear service boundaries, messaging, and resilience patterns

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wshobson/agents
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42,095
Licence
MIT
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2 files

What it does

Once installed, the agent gets guidance for designing systems made of many small, independently deployed services. It can suggest how to split a large application into services, choose between direct request/response calls and event-based messaging, handle data ownership and multi-step transactions (such as the saga pattern), and add resilience patterns like circuit breakers, retries with backoff, and bulkheads. The skill is a set of written instructions and reference notes; it does not run code or change your systems on its own.

Great for

  • Engineers planning to break a monolithic application into microservices
  • Architects reviewing service boundaries and inter-service communication choices
  • Teams designing event-driven systems who want a checklist of resilience patterns

Skip it if

  • Small applications or single-team projects where a monolith is simpler; the skill leans toward distributed design, which adds operational cost
  • Production incident response or specific code debugging, since the skill gives general patterns rather than analysis of your system

Try asking

  • “Help me decompose our monolithic order system into microservices by business capability”
  • “Compare REST, gRPC and Kafka events for communication between our payment and inventory services”
  • “Design a saga for an order checkout that spans three services with compensating actions”
  • “Suggest circuit breaker and retry settings for calls from our API gateway to a flaky downstream service”
Step-by-step guide: how to use Microservices PatternsInstall, first run, examples, tips and FAQs

Install in 3 steps

  1. 1

    Download the skill

    The ZIP contains the 2 original files, the MIT licence and an attribution note.

    microservices-patterns.zip
  2. 2

    Add it to your agent

    Claude Code (all projects)

    mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && unzip microservices-patterns.zip -d ~/.claude/skills/

    Claude Code / Agent SDK (this project only)

    mkdir -p .claude/skills && unzip microservices-patterns.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

  • Describe your current system, team size and traffic so the agent can judge whether microservices fit before proposing a split.
  • Ask for trade-offs explicitly, since the skill's patterns come with costs such as eventual consistency and operational complexity.
  • Point the agent at your real code or diagrams so recommendations match your actual service boundaries.

What's inside

  • references/details.md
  • SKILL.md

Redistributed unmodified from wshobson/agents under the MIT 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.