architecture SKILL.md skillA

architecture from fabiandistler/agents is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add fabiandistler/agents/architecture@git:20261022.73f3abf

Pins git:20261022.73f3abf in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
fabiandistler/agents
Path
skills/architecture/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
5
Latest version
git:20261022.73f3abf, committed Oct 22, 2026
First version recorded
Oct 21, 2026
Size
4,421 bytes
Repository stars
2
License
none declared

Routes software-architecture work to the right sub-skill: choosing topology or code organization (monolith vs microservices, layered/hexagonal/clean), service boundaries and inter-service communication, DDD modeling, component decomposition, C4 diagrams, coupling/cohesion analysis, and CI architecture rules.

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

# Architecture & design

This is a **router**. The architecture category ships several deep sub-skills;
this entry keeps one broad trigger on the surface and hands off to the specific
one. Do not answer an architecture or design question from this file alone.

## How to use

1. Match the request to a row in the table below.
2. **Read that sub-skill's `SKILL.md` before acting.** The sub-skills are
   files; open `members/<name>/SKILL.md` relative to this file's directory.
   If your agent also lists them as skills, still route through this table.
   The file carries the real workflow, references, and scripts — this router
   only points the way.
3. If two rows seem to apply, apply the tie-break below and read the default
   member; read a second member only if the first points to it. If none fit,
   use your general knowledge and say the catalogue had no dedicated
   sub-skill. Plain table/index design has no member — answer directly and
   say so.

The sub-skills are nested under this router's `members/` directory, so they load
only when routed to (progressive disclosure) rather than each competing for the
model's trigger surface.

<!-- BEGIN generated:members -->
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add fabiandistler/agents/architecture@sha256:fa01e107eb988a25

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261022.73f3abf, 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 5 versions of this file, between Oct 21, 2026 and Oct 22, 2026, more than one a day.

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Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (4421 bytes)
  • 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
  • pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
  • pass: No text hidden with inline styles
  • pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
  • pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
  • pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
  • pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
  • pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
  • pass: No link to a raw IP address
  • pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

fabiandistler/agents · 2 stars · license none declared · pushed 2026-11-01 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_35arjzocg4msierc
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=fabiandistler/agents/architecture
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/fa01e107eb988a25f34c6af13b2b5c6186dab10efe9d43a053c61b39559c5f52

Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.

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