architecture-compass SKILL.md skillA

architecture-compass from stark-ai-de/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 stark-ai-de/agent-skills/architecture-compass@v0.12.1

Pins v0.12.1 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
stark-ai-de/agent-skills
Path
skills/engineering-workflows/architecture-compass/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
6
Latest version
v0.12.1, committed Oct 15, 2026
First version recorded
Sep 28, 2026
Size
20,342 bytes
Repository stars
8
License
Apache-2.0

Set up ADR governance, audit architecture and drift, or plan and execute bounded refactors and code simplification. Use when work needs binding architecture decisions, library reuse, shared-code ownership, provider-to-local mapping, or architecture PR review.

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

# Architecture Compass

## Goal

Make architecture decisions explicit, binding, locally traceable, and executable. Establish repository-native governance, audit implementation, or perform an ADR-guided refactor without overwriting accepted history or broadening authority.

## When to use

- Establish/reconcile ADR governance or audit architecture, decision coverage, drift, risk, and evidence.
- Plan or execute bounded ADR-governed work, including broad work that first requires durable decisions.

## When not to use

- Tiny/style-only or ordinary governed edits with no architecture consequence or ADR-aware boundary check.
- Generic framework education or requests without target evidence and a governance, audit, planning, or refactoring outcome.

## Activation and receipt presentation
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add stark-ai-de/agent-skills/architecture-compass@sha256:83790498332bf30f

The line at the top of this page pins the label v0.12.1, 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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Versions

The registry has recorded 6 versions of this file, between Sep 28, 2026 and Oct 15, 2026, about one every 3 days.

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v0.12.1 latest2026-10-15 522b944 20,342 BA view · diff
v0.12.02026-10-09 a5b35bf 20,342 BA view · diff
v0.11.02026-10-09 f74c61c 19,360 BA view · diff
v0.11.02026-10-08 4a1ca1e 19,329 BA view · diff
v0.10.22026-09-28 b10e0c1 18,969 BA view · diff
v0.10.12026-09-28 1e04e0c 18,969 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 (20342 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

stark-ai-de/agent-skills · 8 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-10-20 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_bt6bxjvyb6shje2d
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=stark-ai-de/agent-skills/architecture-compass
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/83790498332bf30f20437e92f913ee97be03d0328a6d344154aae4209575378d

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