Understand existing codebase structure before proposing changes. Check for established patterns. Follow them unless explicitly changing.
Architecture
System architecture and design patterns. Modular design, interface stability, dependency management, AI-code health nexus. Triggers: architecture, design, structure, modules, dependencies, coupling, system design.
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---name: architecturedescription: System architecture and design patterns. Modular design, interface stability, dependency management, AI-code health nexus. Triggers: architecture, design, structure, modules, dependencies, coupling, system design.---<skill id="architecture"><purpose>Architecture is about managing change over time.Good architecture makes easy things easy and hard things possible.AI-generated code amplifies existing patterns—good or bad.</purpose><prerequisite>Understand existing codebase structure before proposing changes.Check for established patterns. Follow them unless explicitly changing.</prerequisite><reference>Skill-specific: skills/architecture/reference/architecture-research.md</reference><core_principles>1. FOLLOW EXISTING PATTERNS: Don't introduce new patterns without justification.2. INTERFACE STABILITY: Changing interfaces breaks everything. Stabilize them first.3. MODULAR BOUNDARIES: Clear separation. Each module has one reason to change.4. DEPENDENCY DIRECTION: Depend on abstractions, not concretions. Core doesn't know about edges.5. SMALLEST CHANGE: Prefer minimal changes that achieve the goal.</core_principles><ai_code_health_nexus>From research: 30%+ defect risk when AI applied to unhealthy code.AI amplifies existing patterns. If code is messy, AI makes it messier.Before adding AI to a codebase:1. Identify health score (coupling, complexity, test coverage)2. Fix critical health issues first3. Establish clear interfaces4. Then apply AI within those boundaries</ai_code_health_nexus><design_heuristics>- If you can't explain it simply, the design is too complex- Three concrete examples before abstraction- Composition over inheritance- Make illegal states unrepresentable- Parse, don't validate</design_heuristics><anti_patterns>- Premature abstraction (abstract before 3 concrete uses)- Leaky abstractions (implementation details bleeding through)- Circular dependencies- God objects (one class doing everything)- Feature envy (methods that use another class more than their own)</anti_patterns><on_complete>agentdb write-end '{"skill":"architecture","decision":"X","coupling_reduced":true,"adr":"path|none"}'</on_complete></skill>
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System architecture and design patterns. Modular design, interface stability, dependency management, AI-code health nexus. Triggers: architecture, design, structure, modules, dependencies, coupling, system design. It is listed under Coding & Dev Tools on SkillMD.
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