🔍 Software Design Principles

This skill enforces object-oriented design principles, detects code smells like feature envy, and guides you to inject dependencies and name domain concepts.

QUICK INSTALL
npx playbooks add skill ntcoding/claude-skillz --skill software-design-principles

About Software Design Principles

Software Design Principles specializes your AI coding agent in code review & quality — it this skill enforces object-oriented design principles, detects code smells like feature envy, and guides you to inject dependencies and name domain concepts.

At 22 words, this compact prompt gives your agent specialized code review & quality expertise with structured patterns and output formats. Install via CLI or copy the prompt below.

Use Cases

  • Catching bugs and security vulnerabilities before merge
  • Enforcing code style and architectural consistency
  • Reviewing PRs for performance and maintainability
  • Generating detailed code review comments

Example Prompts

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System Prompt (22 words)

This skill enforces object-oriented design principles, detects code smells like feature envy, and guides you to inject dependencies and name domain concepts.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Software Design Principles?

Software Design Principles is a free code review & quality skill for AI coding agents. This skill enforces object-oriented design principles, detects code smells like feature envy, and guides you to inject dependencies and name domain concepts.. It provides a specialized system prompt that configures your agent with code review & quality expertise.

How do I use Software Design Principles with Claude Code?

Run npx playbooks add skill ntcoding/claude-skillz --skill software-design-principles in your terminal to install Software Design Principles into your Claude Code session. It works immediately after installation.

Which AI coding agents work with Software Design Principles?

Software Design Principles is compatible with Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Windsurf, OpenClaw, Cline, and any AI agent that supports custom system prompts or .cursorrules files.

Is Software Design Principles free to use?

Yes, Software Design Principles is completely free and open source. The full source is available on GitHub at https://github.com/ntcoding/claude-skillz/tree/main/software-design-principles. You only need a subscription to the AI agent you use it with.

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