architecture-audit SKILL.md skillA
architecture-audit from karsten-s-nielsen/mad-scientist-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add karsten-s-nielsen/mad-scientist-skills/architecture-audit@git:20260926.35dafddPins git:20260926.35dafdd in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- karsten-s-nielsen/mad-scientist-skills
- Path
plugins/mad-scientist-skills/skills/architecture-audit/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20260926.35dafdd, committed Sep 26, 2026
- First version recorded
- Mar 31, 2026
- Size
- 62,936 bytes
- Repository stars
- 3
- License
- MIT
Comprehensive architecture audit with two modes and a single tier (beta). Planning mode evaluates architectural patterns, bounded context decomposition, dependency direction, and SOLID compliance for new systems. Audit mode scans existing codebases for architectural drift, coupling violations, domain model quality, dependency direction violations, and structural anti-patterns. Grounded in Hexagonal Architecture (Cockburn), Domain-Driven Design (Evans/Vernon), Clean Architecture (Martin), SOLID…
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What the file says
# Architecture Audit (beta) A comprehensive architecture audit skill with two modes and a single tier: **Modes:** - **Planning** (before code exists) — architectural pattern selection, bounded context decomposition, dependency direction design, SOLID compliance strategy - **Audit** (on existing code) — scanning for architectural drift, coupling violations, domain model anti-patterns, dependency direction violations, and structural decay **Single tier:** Architecture analysis is methodology-based — the value is in the analytical framework (dependency graphs, coupling metrics, pattern detection), not in paid tooling. The few tools referenced (import-linter, deptry, Madge) are free/open-source. **Beta:** This skill is under active development. Phase coverage and detection patterns will expand based on field testing. Findings should be reviewed with appropriate skepticism — architectural assessment requires more judgment than grep-based vulnerability scanning. **Core question:** "Does the structure of this codebase support its evolution?" ## Academic and practitioner foundations This skill synthesizes eleven architectural traditions: …
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How to install
mdr add karsten-s-nielsen/mad-scientist-skills/architecture-audit@sha256:1bbfe77356880b0aThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260926.35dafdd, 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 3 versions of this file, between Mar 31, 2026 and Sep 26, 2026, about one every 89 days.
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| git:20260926.35dafdd latest | 2026-09-26 | 35dafdd | 62,936 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260416.d18ed8c | 2026-04-16 | d18ed8c | 62,852 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260331.dc11d83 | 2026-03-31 | dc11d83 | 58,254 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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- 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
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- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
karsten-s-nielsen/mad-scientist-skills · 3 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-01 · branch main
API
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