# Designing Data Intensive Applications (agent skill)

> 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.

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.

## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Repository | https://github.com/ciembor/agent-rules-books |
| Skill path | designing-data-intensive-applications/SKILL.md |
| Skill name | designing-data-intensive-applications |
| GitHub stars | 3,114 |
| Installs on skills.sh | 4 |
| License | MIT |
| Skills in repo | 4 |
| Plugin marketplace | no |
| Official | no |
| Works with | Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot |
| Category | Data & analysis |
| Last commit | Sep 10, 2026 |

## Add this skill

### Claude Code

```sh
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 project
```

In the Claude apps, zip the skill folder and upload it under Customize > Skills > + > Upload a skill (code execution must be on).

### ChatGPT / Codex

```sh
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 projects
```

### Cursor

```sh
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 projects
```

Sources (checked 2026-10-07): https://code.claude.com/docs/en/skills, https://support.claude.com/en/articles/12512180-using-skills-in-claude, https://learn.chatgpt.com/docs/build-skills, https://cursor.com/docs/context/skills

skills.sh listing: https://www.skills.sh/ciembor/agent-rules-books/designing-data-intensive-applications

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