System Design

Use this skill when designing system topology for a new service or infrastructure layer, translating non-functional requirements into engineering specifications, planning capacity for growth, or architecting AI inference infrastructure.

When to Use

• a new system, environment, or service needs infrastructure topology specified before implementation
• non-functional requirements (latency, throughput, availability, scalability) need translating into measurable engineering targets
• capacity planning is needed for known or forecast growth
• AI inference infrastructure (GPU allocation, inference server, vector database) needs to be designed or selected
• an existing system needs a performance or capacity review
• infrastructure decisions require documented trade-off analysis

Core Rules