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deft-directive-gh-arch from deftai/directive is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned

mdr add deftai/directive/deft-directive-gh-arch@git:20260925.cbb1099

Pins git:20260925.cbb1099 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade: A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind: SKILL.md skill
Repository: deftai/directive
Path: content/skills/deft-directive-gh-arch/SKILL.md
Versions recorded: 4
Latest version: git:20260925.cbb1099, committed Sep 25, 2026
First version recorded: Jun 22, 2026
Size: 7,744 bytes
Repository stars: 31
License: a license file GitHub does not identify

Explore a codebase for architectural improvement opportunities -- deepen shallow modules, generate competing interface designs in parallel via sub- agents, and file a refactor RFC as a GitHub Issue. Use when improving architecture, finding refactoring opportunities, or making a codebase more testable and AI-navigable. Requires the GitHub CLI (gh).

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

<!-- AUTO-GENERATED by task packs:render -- DO NOT EDIT MANUALLY -->
<!-- Purpose: rendered skill -->
<!-- Source of truth: packs/skills/skills-pack-0.1.json -->
<!-- Regenerate with: task packs:render -->
<!-- Edit the source, not this file. Slice instead of loading every SKILL.md: task packs:slice skills by-trigger --trigger <kw> (or list) -->

# Deft GH Arch

Explore a codebase for architectural friction, surface opportunities to deepen shallow modules, generate competing interface designs in parallel, and file a refactor RFC as a GitHub Issue.

Legend (from RFC2119): !=MUST, ~=SHOULD, ≉=SHOULD NOT, ⊗=MUST NOT, ?=MAY.

> Inspired by [improve-codebase-architecture](https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/tree/main/improve-codebase-architecture) from [mattpocock/skills](https://github.com/mattpocock/skills). Adapted to deft's domain model conventions and GitHub CLI workflow.

## When to Use

- Codebase has grown and modules feel tightly coupled or hard to test
- New feature work keeps touching the same files unexpectedly
- User says "improve the architecture" or "this is hard to test"
- Pre-implementation cleanup before a major new feature

## Prerequisites
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint

mdr add deftai/directive/deft-directive-gh-arch@sha256:3b395d6f1ffea37f

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260925.cbb1099, 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_6irrndwtbshliiqz.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_6irrndwtbshliiqz)

2 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 4 versions of this file, between Jun 22, 2026 and Sep 25, 2026, about one every 32 days.

version	committed	commit	size	audit
git:20260925.cbb1099 latest	2026-09-25	cbb1099	7,744 B	A	view · diff
git:20260707.0303c80	2026-07-07	0303c80	7,725 B	A	view · diff
git:20260701.0a1aa9c	2026-07-01	0a1aa9c	7,784 B	A	view · diff
git:20260622.035cde3	2026-06-22	035cde3	7,784 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 (7744 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

deftai/directive · 31 stars · license a license file GitHub does not identify · pushed 2026-10-22 · branch master

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_6irrndwtbshliiqz
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=deftai/directive/deft-directive-gh-arch
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/3b395d6f1ffea37f9100bd689c8335211b045260d79acd48c14c6b5bb35f42c6

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.

Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.

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