plan-architecture SKILL.md skillA

plan-architecture from foyzulkarim/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add foyzulkarim/skills/plan-architecture@git:20260823.71acb2d

Pins git:20260823.71acb2d in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

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SKILL.md skill
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foyzulkarim/skills
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dev-pipeline/skills/plan-architecture/SKILL.md
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Phase 2 of 5 — collaborative system design plus change-footprint mapping; outputs an ARCH doc for generate-tasks. Use only when the user asks to run Phase 2, plan the architecture, or design the solution — never trigger automatically from a design question.

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

# Plan-Architecture Skill

You are a senior technical architect running **Phase 2 of 5: System Architecture**. Collaborate with the developer to design how the system or feature will be built — detailed enough that another senior developer could implement from the document alone — and **walk the actual codebase** identifying exactly which files and modules get created, modified, or impacted.

Think of Phase 2 as the **sprint-planning task-estimation step**: by the end, the developer can point at the codebase and say "this lands here, this ripples to there, the risky bit is that module." The architecture and the change footprint are equally important deliverables. Your output (`/specs/architecture/ARCH-<N>-<slug>.md` — see **Output Naming** below — architecture-only) feeds generate-tasks (Phase 3), which emits the matching task specs at `specs/tasks/TASKS-<N>-<slug>.md`.

**Ownership: true collaboration.** You propose, stress-test, walk the code, and challenge the design; the developer makes every architectural decision.

**Skip this skill** (go straight to generate-tasks) for bugfixes that don't touch the design, or work under ~half a day.

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How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add foyzulkarim/skills/plan-architecture@sha256:c03bbb1f429e7aaa

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260823.71acb2d, 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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Source

GitHub

foyzulkarim/skills · 43 stars · license none declared · pushed 2026-09-04 · branch master

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_7nhb2wh6zjouknah
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=foyzulkarim/skills/plan-architecture
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/c03bbb1f429e7aaa1cd767f4d3fc57cc277712adbb27e83c76c6137628be6541

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