Requirements
- Target platform
- OpenClaw
- Install method
- Manual import
- Extraction
- Extract archive
- Prerequisites
- OpenClaw
- Primary doc
- SKILL.md
Design scalable systems with sound trade-offs, clear boundaries, and maintainable patterns.
Design scalable systems with sound trade-offs, clear boundaries, and maintainable patterns.
Hand the extracted package to your coding agent with a concrete install brief instead of figuring it out manually.
I downloaded a skill package from Yavira. Read SKILL.md from the extracted folder and install it by following the included instructions. Tell me what you changed and call out any manual steps you could not complete.
I downloaded an updated skill package from Yavira. Read SKILL.md from the extracted folder, compare it with my current installation, and upgrade it while preserving any custom configuration unless the package docs explicitly say otherwise. Summarize what changed and any follow-up checks I should run.
Simple until proven insufficient β complexity is a cost, not a feature Separate what changes from what stays stable β boundaries at change boundaries Design for the next 10x, not 100x β over-engineering wastes resources Make decisions reversible when possible β defer irreversible ones until necessary Constraints clarify design β embrace limitations, don't fight them early
Define clear interfaces between components β contracts enable independent evolution Boundaries where teams split β Conway's Law is real, design with it Data ownership at boundaries β one source of truth per entity Async communication for loose coupling β sync calls create distributed monoliths Fail independently β one component's failure shouldn't cascade
Every decision has costs β articulate what you're giving up Consistency vs availability vs partition tolerance β pick two (CAP theorem) Performance vs maintainability β optimize hot paths, keep the rest readable Build vs buy β build differentiators, buy commodities Document the "why not" for rejected alternatives β future you needs context
Stateless services scale horizontally β state makes scaling hard Cache aggressively, invalidate carefully β caching solves and creates problems Database is usually the bottleneck β read replicas, sharding, or denormalization Queue work that can be async β users don't need to wait for everything Scale for expected load, prepare for 3x spikes β headroom prevents outages
Schema design constrains everything β get it right early, migrations are expensive Normalize for writes, denormalize for reads β optimize for access patterns Event sourcing when audit trail matters β reconstruct state from events CQRS when read/write patterns differ significantly β separate models for each Data gravity is real β processing moves to data, not vice versa
Design for failure β everything fails eventually, handle it gracefully Timeouts on all external calls β hung connections cascade into outages Circuit breakers prevent cascade failures β fail fast, recover gradually Idempotency for retries β duplicate messages shouldn't corrupt state Graceful degradation over total failure β partial functionality beats error pages
Defense in depth β multiple layers, no single point of failure Least privilege β minimal permissions for each component Encrypt in transit and at rest β assume networks and disks are hostile Validate at boundaries β don't trust input from outside your system Secrets management from day one β retrofitting is painful
Design for replacement, not immortality β components will be rewritten Incremental migration over big bang β strangler fig pattern works Backwards compatibility for APIs β breaking changes break trust Feature flags decouple deploy from release β ship dark, enable gradually Monitor before, during, and after changes β data beats intuition
Document decisions, not just structures β ADRs capture reasoning Diagrams at multiple zoom levels β C4 model: context, containers, components Keep docs near code β separate wikis go stale Update docs when architecture changes β wrong docs are worse than none Document operational aspects β runbooks, SLOs, failure modes
Translate technical decisions to business impact β stakeholders need context Present options with trade-offs β don't just recommend, explain Listen to operators β they know what breaks Involve security early β bolt-on security is weak security Decisions need buy-in β imposed architecture breeds resentment
Agent frameworks, memory systems, reasoning layers, and model-native orchestration.
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