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flat-layered from wntic/pyhouse is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add wntic/pyhouse/flat-layered@git:20261011.4a676ac

Pins git:20261011.4a676ac in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

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Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
wntic/pyhouse
Path
plugins/pyhouse-flat/skills/flat-layered/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
5
Latest version
git:20261011.4a676ac, committed Oct 11, 2026
First version recorded
Sep 29, 2026
Size
25,950 bytes
Repository stars
3
License
MIT

Use when structuring a worker, crawler, pipeline, ETL job or integration service whose family is already settled as flat — one distribution on its own by default, and one of several in a repository under the same rules. Defines the four role kinds a flat service divides into and the import contract between them, the packages named for the roles this service actually has, the package and settings class each configured component owns, the single-implementation client holding one pooled transport…

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What the file says

# Flat-Layered Architecture — package-by-technology, no ports

Covers project layout for services where the ports-and-adapters split (domain/application/
infrastructure/entrypoints, `Protocol` ports, DIP) would add indirection with nothing to protect. The
code groups by **technical role**, dependencies point wherever they need to, and an interface is
introduced only when a second real implementation is about to exist — not in anticipation of one.
This skill assumes the family is already chosen; `architecture-choice` chooses it.

**The worked example throughout is a service that fetches from an upstream and lands rows in a store**,
because it exercises every role at once. The roles are not that workload: a service that consumes a
queue and calls an API, one that renders reports, one that only transforms what it is handed, fills the
same four roles and leaves empty the ones it has no use for. A role with nothing in it is not a gap.

**The subject is one distribution on its own** — its own package and its own datastores where it has any.
A service that shares a repository with siblings is the same service under the same rules with a
…

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How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add wntic/pyhouse/flat-layered@sha256:3f5ff2d251119392

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261011.4a676ac, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.

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  • pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
  • pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
  • pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
  • pass: No credential-shaped string
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Source

GitHub

wntic/pyhouse · 3 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-05 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_2rfdaqtjkpaas4yb
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=wntic/pyhouse/flat-layered
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/3f5ff2d251119392643595602a42175e3f661adc07d604b30bf21805f5821352

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