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google-cloud-solution-architecture agent skill by google

Discovers requirements interactively and designs multi-product system architectures, solution blueprints, and deployment recommendations for complex workloads on Google Cloud.

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At a glance

Publisher	Google Official
Repository	google/skills (163 listed skills)
Category	DevOps and Cloud
License	Apache-2.0
Last commit	October 16, 2026 (repository)
SKILL.md	257 lines, 1,660 words
Bundled files	5 files, including references, assets or templates
Quality score	85/100 · B Passes all seven graded checks
Security scan	Not scanned
README badge	Get the badges for this listing

Before you install

Read from the skill's files at the directory's October 19, 2026 snapshot: what ships with it, what its code reads, and the terms it is published under.

Bundled scripts: none.
MCP: SKILL.md mentions an MCP server.
License: Apache-2.0, an open-source or open-content license.

Install google-cloud-solution-architecture

The skills CLI works with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other agents; the other routes copy the folder by hand.

Skills CLI

npx skills add https://github.com/google/skills/tree/main/skills/cloud/google-cloud-solution-architecture

Claude Code, project-level copy

tmp="$(mktemp -d)"
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/google/skills.git "$tmp/repo"
mkdir -p .claude/skills
cp -R "$tmp/repo/"skills/cloud/google-cloud-solution-architecture .claude/skills/
rm -rf "$tmp"

Codex installer

python3 ~/.codex/skills/.system/skill-installer/scripts/install-skill-from-github.py \
    --repo google/skills \
    --path skills/cloud/google-cloud-solution-architecture

google/skills is third-party code. Read SKILL.md and any bundled scripts before you install it.

How the author describes it

Interactively discovers requirements and designs holistic, multi-product system architectures, solution blueprints, and deployment recommendations for complex workloads on Google Cloud. Use when designing end-to-end cloud solutions, selecting and integrating Google Cloud services, generating architecture diagrams, or conducting requirements discovery for new cloud workloads or migrations. Don't use for single-product tasks (use product-specific skills), initial onboarding or authentication (use google-cloud-recipe-*), Well-Architected Framework reviews or audits (use google-cloud-waf-*), or workloads covered by specialized solution skills.

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Sections in SKILL.md

Overview of the workflow
Phase 1: Requirements discovery
Phase 2: Solution architecture
Ground all generated content
Task 2.1: Identify Google Cloud products and features required for the workload.
Task 2.2: Generate an architecture diagram.
Task 2.3: Generate an architecture description.
Task 2.4: Generate design recommendations.
Task 2.5: Generate deployment guidance.
Phase 3: Solution validation
Task 3.1: Pre-deployment validation
Task 3.2: Runtime validation (Post-deployment)
Phase 4: Solution packaging and presentation

Files in the skill folder

SKILL.md
assets/output-template.md
references/architecture-guides.md
references/best-practices-guides.md
references/decision-making-guides.md

Suede Skill Check: 85/100 · B

Report snapshot · October 19, 2026 · graded-v2

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google-cloud-solution-architecture passes the required frontmatter check and all seven graded checks, which cover the SKILL.md format, a declared license and a commit in the last year. Those checks earn 56 of the score’s points; the rest come from description quality, instruction depth, bundled files, maintenance and curated-list citations. How the score works.

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Check	Result
Frontmatter parses and declares a name and a description	Pass
Name uses lowercase letters, digits and hyphens, 64 characters or fewer	Pass
Name matches the skill's folder name	Pass
Description is between 50 and 1,024 characters	Pass
Description says when an agent should use the skill	Pass
SKILL.md body is 500 lines or fewer	Pass
A license is declared in the frontmatter or the repository	Pass
Repository has a commit in the last 12 months	Pass

Score component	Points
Structural checks	56 of 56
Description length	3 of 5
Boundary clause	4 of 4
Example request	0 of 3
Instruction depth	7 of 7
Reference files	3 of 3
Bundled scripts	0 of 2
Recent maintenance	9 of 9
Curated-list citations	3 of 7
Tool permissions declared	0 of 2
Compatibility declared	0 of 2

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