Designing Data Intensive Applications
Designing Data Intensive Applications is an agent skill (a SKILL.md file) from ciembor/agent-rules-books. Apply Martin Kleppmann-inspired data-system rules when designing reliability, scalability, consistency, replication, transactions, streams, or schema evolution. It works with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and GitHub Copilot and has 3,114 GitHub stars across a repository of 4 listed skills.
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Claude
Claude Code loads skills from ~/.claude/skills/ (all projects) or .claude/skills/ (one project):
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ciembor/agent-rules-books.git
cp -r agent-rules-books/designing-data-intensive-applications ~/.claude/skills/designing-data-intensive-applications # personal, or .claude/skills in a projectIn the Claude apps, zip the designing-data-intensive-applications folder and upload it under Customize > Skills > + > Upload a skill (code execution must be on).
ChatGPT / Codex
Codex reads skills from .agents/skills/ in a repo or ~/.agents/skills/ for every project:
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ciembor/agent-rules-books.git
cp -r agent-rules-books/designing-data-intensive-applications .agents/skills/designing-data-intensive-applications # repo; ~/.agents/skills for all projectsStandalone skills also load in the ChatGPT desktop app.
Cursor
Cursor loads skills from .cursor/skills/ (or ~/.cursor/skills/) and also reads .claude/skills/:
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ciembor/agent-rules-books.git
cp -r agent-rules-books/designing-data-intensive-applications .cursor/skills/designing-data-intensive-applications # project; ~/.cursor/skills for all projectsSource (checked Oct 7, 2026): code.claude.com/docs/en/skills (opens in a new tab), support.claude.com/en/articles/12512180-using-skills-in-claude (opens in a new tab), learn.chatgpt.com/docs/build-skills (opens in a new tab), cursor.com/docs/context/skills (opens in a new tab)
What this skill does
Apply Martin Kleppmann-inspired data-system rules when designing reliability, scalability, consistency, replication, transactions, streams, or schema evolution. Use this skill when a task involves data ownership, consistency semantics, event flows, replication, partitioning, transactions, streams, batch processing, fault tolerance, or schema evolution.
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How do I install the Designing Data Intensive Applications skill?
Copy the designing-data-intensive-applications folder (the one containing SKILL.md) into ~/.claude/skills/ for Claude Code, .agents/skills/ for Codex or .cursor/skills/ for Cursor. The agent picks it up automatically when a task matches its description.
Is the Designing Data Intensive Applications skill free?
Yes. The repository is open source under the MIT license.
Is Designing Data Intensive Applications maintained?
The repository's most recent commit was on Sep 10, 2026. Its latest release is v0.5. appsgit only lists skills from repositories with a commit in the last six months.