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improve-codebase-architecture from mxyhi/ok-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add mxyhi/ok-skills/improve-codebase-architecture@git:20260930.4ade426

Pins git:20260930.4ade426 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
mxyhi/ok-skills
Path
improve-codebase-architecture/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
6
Latest version
git:20260930.4ade426, committed Sep 30, 2026
First version recorded
Jul 10, 2026
Size
6,000 bytes
Repository stars
504
License
Apache-2.0

Scan a codebase for deepening opportunities, present them as a visual HTML report, then grill through whichever one you pick.

Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.

What the file says

# Improve Codebase Architecture

Surface architectural friction and propose **deepening opportunities**: refactors that turn shallow modules into deep ones. The aim is testability and AI-navigability.

This command is _informed_ by the project's domain model and built on a shared design vocabulary:

- Call the Skill tool with "codebase-design" for the architecture vocabulary (**module**, **interface**, **depth**, **seam**, **adapter**, **leverage**, **locality**) and its principles (the deletion test, "the interface is the test surface", "one adapter = hypothetical seam, two = real"). Use these terms exactly in every suggestion, and don't drift into "component," "service," "API," or "boundary."
- The domain language in `GLOSSARY.md` gives names to good seams; ADRs in `docs/adr/` record decisions this command should not re-litigate.

## Process

### 1. Explore

**Scope before you scan: YAGNI.** Deepening a module pays off by making future changes to it easier, so put extra weight on the parts of the codebase that have recently changed. Decide *where* to look before you look:
…

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How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add mxyhi/ok-skills/improve-codebase-architecture@sha256:552240a5ab5cec6b

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260930.4ade426, 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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Versions

The registry has recorded 6 versions of this file, between Jul 10, 2026 and Sep 30, 2026, about one every 16 days.

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Source

GitHub

mxyhi/ok-skills · 504 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-10-18 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_32rombmt3bloeixw
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=mxyhi/ok-skills/improve-codebase-architecture
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/552240a5ab5cec6b67c15dd1ad6e9f6962b1bca6ce870059a8c2713760c20392

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