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architecture-elevation from stempeck/agentfactory is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned

mdr add stempeck/agentfactory/architecture-elevation@v3.0.0

Pins v3.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade: A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind: SKILL.md skill
Repository: stempeck/agentfactory
Path: internal/cmd/install_skills/architecture-elevation/SKILL.md
Versions recorded: 1
Latest version: v3.0.0, committed Jun 28, 2026
Size: 24,580 bytes
Repository stars: 3
License: AGPL-3.0

Validate the architectural ALTITUDE of a stated root cause or proposed fix before peer review or implementation. Interrogates the frame itself — whether the concern exists because of an abstraction that could be removed — before mapping enforcement sites within the concern. Tests whether a different boundary could DELETE the concern's substrate, not merely reorganize its enforcement. Invoked as a gate from /rootcause-all (after synthesis), /design-v5 (between Phase 3 and Phase 4), and…

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 Elevation Skill

## Trigger

`/architecture-elevation <path-to-analysis-or-design-doc>`

Also invoked automatically as a gate from:
- `/rootcause-all` at end of Phase 4 (after solution documented)
- `/design-v5` between Phase 3 (synthesis) and Phase 4 (finalize)
- `/rootcause-review` at Phase 1 (intake)

## Purpose

Peer review asks "are the claims INSIDE the frame true?" This skill asks two questions in order:

1. **Does this concern exist because of an abstraction we introduced?** If the abstraction were removed, would the concern disappear? (Phase 0.)
2. **If the concern is real, is there a single boundary that would DELETE the duplication instead of add to it?** (Phases 1-3.)

The single failure mode this skill defends against: a surface-level fix is accepted because every downstream gate (peer review, six-sigma, impact-analysis) validates claims WITHIN the current frame, and none interrogates the frame. The most common form of that failure: an ADR or prior decomposition encoded the surface-level remedy, and "ADR-compliance" is then mistaken for architectural correctness.

## Bias: subtraction over addition
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Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint

mdr add stempeck/agentfactory/architecture-elevation@sha256:47a0964370af26a5

The line at the top of this page pins the label v3.0.0, 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.

Badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_3byxdszvqogqyrtg.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_3byxdszvqogqyrtg)

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Versions

The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Jun 28, 2026.

version	committed	commit	size	audit
v3.0.0 latest	2026-06-28	34d8187	24,580 B	A	view

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 (24580 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

stempeck/agentfactory · 3 stars · license AGPL-3.0 · pushed 2026-11-02 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_3byxdszvqogqyrtg
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=stempeck/agentfactory/architecture-elevation
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/47a0964370af26a56ddb7e975e02f631d8c80a58907062fa0a270c1bd91172bb

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