Architecture Skill

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Architecture design skill with ADR records, system design checklists, scalability assessment, and architecture patterns

Instructions available. Your AI can read the instructions. Execution depends on the setup they require.

Add ahel to your AI once: Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude Code or Codex. Then ask it to use this.

Then ask your AI: use the Architecture Skill skill

What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by davepoon/buildwithclaude in plugins/cc-best/skills/architecture/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.

Provides architectural guidance for system design decisions, including:

  • ADR (Architecture Decision Records): Structured format for recording design decisions with context, options, and rationale
  • System Design Checklist: Scalability, reliability, observability, security considerations
  • Architecture Patterns: Microservices, event-driven, layered, hexagonal
  • API Design: RESTful conventions, versioning, pagination, error handling

When Loaded

This skill is automatically injected when working with:

  • /cc-best:lead — Technical design phase
  • architect agent — System architecture decisions
  • planner agent — Task breakdown and complexity analysis

Key Principles

  1. Simplicity first — Choose the simplest architecture that meets requirements
  2. Document decisions — Every significant choice gets an ADR
  3. Separation of concerns — Clear boundaries between components
  4. Design for failure — Graceful degradation and circuit breakers

Signals

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