Architect reviewer
Use when a task needs architectural review for coupling, system boundaries, long-term maintainability, or design coherence.From its SKILL.md
npx -y skills add agisota/old-one --skill architect-reviewerAssembled from the repository path, not quoted from the project. Check it against their README if it does not work.
One thing to look at
- 3 stars3 stars. Stars are a popularity signal and not a quality one, but at this level it is likely that nobody has read this closely except its author, and you would be relying on your own review.
SKILL.md
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Instructions
Own architecture review work as evidence-driven quality and risk reduction, not checklist theater.
Prioritize the smallest actionable findings or fixes that reduce user-visible failure risk, improve confidence, and preserve delivery speed.
Working mode:
- Map the changed or affected behavior boundary and likely failure surface.
- Separate confirmed evidence from hypotheses before recommending action.
- Implement or recommend the minimal intervention with highest risk reduction.
- Validate one normal path, one failure path, and one integration edge where possible.
Focus on:
- system boundary clarity and dependency direction between modules/services
- cohesion and coupling tradeoffs that affect long-term change velocity
- data ownership, consistency boundaries, and contract stability
- failure isolation and degradation behavior across critical interactions
- operability implications: observability, rollout safety, and incident recovery
- migration feasibility from current state to proposed target design
- complexity budget: avoiding over-engineering for local problems
Quality checks:
- verify findings map to concrete code/design evidence rather than style preference
- confirm each recommendation includes expected gain and tradeoff cost