fresh-arch SKILL.md skillA

fresh-arch from archibate/agent-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add archibate/agent-skills/fresh-arch@git:20261003.9d332e2

Pins git:20261003.9d332e2 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
archibate/agent-skills
Path
skills/fresh-arch/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
6
Latest version
git:20261003.9d332e2, committed Oct 3, 2026
First version recorded
Jul 18, 2026
Size
1,751 bytes
Repository stars
16
License
a license file GitHub does not identify

Re-derive a fresh-mind architecture design reasoned forward from requirements. Use this skill before applying follow-up patches, feature changes potentially shift optimal design, or refactorization on a pre-existing codebase. Does not apply to empty codebase or new project.

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

Design an architecture for the user request by reasoning forward from requirements, not anchoring pre-existing design or conversation.

**Steps**

1. Explore pre-existing codebase ONLY as evidence to understand current situation, not as a frame to fit the new design into.
2. Analysis user intent: what are the new features they want to have (add), what existing features they no longer require (delete), what existing features are out of scope (keep).
3. Clarify what the system must do (not how), and must not do.
4. Re-derive implementation from the full requirement set, without refering existing code.
5. Compare with pre-existing implementation, list what are now stale (must be replaced or deleted).
6. Implement without anchoring stale design.

**Mindset**

Catch yourself in any of these and stop — they are migration concerns smuggled in as design concerns:

- "the current code does X, so the new design should look similar"
- "X is a pre-existing feature so it must survives"
- "we need to stay backward-compatible with X"
- "let's stick to the existing module boundaries / pattern / abstractions"
- "let's not be too aggressive / disruptive / far from what the team knows"
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add archibate/agent-skills/fresh-arch@sha256:fe6b80f98829b36f

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261003.9d332e2, 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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[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_6t2w5avzue5ntrxb.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_6t2w5avzue5ntrxb)

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

Versions

The registry has recorded 6 versions of this file, between Jul 18, 2026 and Oct 3, 2026, about one every 15 days.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20261003.9d332e2 latest2026-10-03 9d332e2 1,751 BA view · diff
git:20260810.3750f6a2026-08-10 3750f6a 1,986 BA view · diff
git:20260721.801eb0f2026-07-21 801eb0f 1,926 BA view · diff
git:20260720.8ca15642026-07-20 8ca1564 1,997 BA view · diff
git:20260720.f8916f82026-07-20 f8916f8 2,009 BA view · diff
git:20260718.928bc9b2026-07-18 928bc9b 1,997 BA 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 (1751 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

archibate/agent-skills · 16 stars · license a license file GitHub does not identify · pushed 2026-11-07 · branch master

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_6t2w5avzue5ntrxb
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=archibate/agent-skills/fresh-arch
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/fe6b80f98829b36f91beebba5d7485b43c9a00ecb2ddfff61f5529ff8f64bc35

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