# Python Design Patterns (agent skill)

> Python Design Patterns is an agent skill (a SKILL.md file) from wshobson/agents. Python design patterns including KISS, Separation of Concerns, Single Responsibility, and composition over inheritance. It works with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode and has 40,254 GitHub stars across a repository of 8 listed skills.

Python design patterns including KISS, Separation of Concerns, Single Responsibility, and composition over inheritance. Use this skill when designing a new service or component from scratch and choosing how to layer responsibilities, when refactoring a God class or monolithic function that has grown too large, when deciding whether to add a new abstraction or live with duplication, when evaluating a pull request for structural issues like tight coupling or leaking internal types, when choosing…

## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Repository | https://github.com/wshobson/agents |
| Skill path | plugins/python-development/skills/python-design-patterns/SKILL.md |
| Skill name | python-design-patterns |
| GitHub stars | 40,254 |
| Installs on skills.sh | 4 |
| License | MIT |
| Skills in repo | 8 |
| Plugin marketplace | claude-code-workflows |
| Official | no |
| Works with | Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, OpenCode |
| Category | Design & frontend |
| Last commit | Oct 4, 2026 |

## When it triggers

- Use this skill when designing a new service or component from scratch and choosing how to layer responsibilities, when refactoring a God class or monolithic function that has grown too large, when deciding whether to add a new abstraction o

## Add this skill

### Claude Code

```sh
/plugin marketplace add wshobson/agents
/plugin install python-development@claude-code-workflows
```

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/wshobson/agents.git
cp -r agents/plugins/python-development/skills/python-design-patterns .agents/skills/python-design-patterns   # repo; ~/.agents/skills for all projects
```

### Cursor

```sh
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wshobson/agents.git
cp -r agents/plugins/python-development/skills/python-design-patterns .cursor/skills/python-design-patterns   # 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/wshobson/agents/python-design-patterns

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