codebase-design SKILL.md skillA
codebase-design from higoralves/orc is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add higoralves/orc/codebase-design@git:20261020.ba1d30bPins git:20261020.ba1d30b in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- higoralves/orc
- Path
orc/skills/codebase-design/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 4
- Latest version
- git:20261020.7a1f356, committed Oct 20, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 5, 2026
- Size
- 6,679 bytes
- Repository stars
- 7
- License
- MIT
Shared vocabulary for designing deep modules — seam, adapter, depth, leverage, locality. Use when designing or reshaping a module's interface, deciding where a seam goes, making code more testable or AI-navigable, or when another orc skill or agent needs the deep-module vocabulary.
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
# Codebase Design Design **deep modules**: a lot of behaviour behind a small interface, placed at a clean seam, testable through that interface. Use this language and these principles wherever code is being designed or restructured. The aim is leverage for callers, locality for maintainers, and testability for everyone. ## Glossary Use these terms exactly — don't substitute "component," "service," "API," or "boundary." Consistent language is the whole point. **Module** — anything with an interface and an implementation. Deliberately scale-agnostic: a function, class, package, or tier-spanning slice. _Avoid_: unit, component, service. **Interface** — everything a caller must know to use the module correctly: the type signature, but also invariants, ordering constraints, error modes, required configuration, and performance characteristics. _Avoid_: API, signature (too narrow — they refer only to the type-level surface). …
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How to install
mdr add higoralves/orc/codebase-design@sha256:fed96739623ff099The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261020.ba1d30b, 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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The registry has recorded 4 versions of this file, between Aug 5, 2026 and Oct 20, 2026, about one every 25 days.
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| git:20261020.7a1f356 latest | 2026-10-20 | 7a1f356 | 6,679 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261020.ba1d30b | 2026-10-20 | ba1d30b | 6,669 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260820.1277cfa | 2026-08-20 | 1277cfa | 6,669 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260805.600ee50 | 2026-08-05 | 600ee50 | 6,837 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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Source
higoralves/orc · 7 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-24 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_5ert7tvkvpciq6ux GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=higoralves/orc/codebase-design GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/fed96739623ff0991efe63981c58e9c60242ec9a0d0060ca5c301ccf79f027b6
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