architecture-knowledge SKILL.md skillA
architecture-knowledge from alpacalabsllc/skills-for-architects is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add alpacalabsllc/skills-for-architects/architecture-knowledge@git:20260920.ef0a19ePins git:20260920.ef0a19e in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- alpacalabsllc/skills-for-architects
- Path
skills/architecture-knowledge/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260920.ef0a19e, committed Sep 20, 2026
- Size
- 3,128 bytes
- Repository stars
- 406
- License
- MIT
Explain US architecture professional-practice terms, phases, deliverables, roles, delivery methods, AIA contract families, CSI documentation systems, or NCS at a high level. Use for questions such as “what is a CD set?” or “what does 50% CDs mean?”; do not use for code/jurisdiction, outline-spec, agreement-scope, or work-plan work.
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-knowledge Before acting, read the [host contract](../../docs/host-harness-contract.md) and this component’s [declaration](host-contract.json) (`skill:architecture-knowledge`). Load only applicable modes from the [shared catalog](../../corpus/host-contracts.json); declarations do not grant access or permission. Use the actual host’s [delivery route](../../docs/host-adapters.md). This is a native source-directory and explanation procedure with no registered operation IDs. Use the host's available source retrieval and reasoning capabilities. No Arch Studio executable, process capability, project creation or record mutation is required for this workflow. Follow the [completion contract](../../docs/completion-reporting.md); a source listing is not retrieval or verification. ## Sources and evidence …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add alpacalabsllc/skills-for-architects/architecture-knowledge@sha256:64c893da13004856The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260920.ef0a19e, 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_cgonhe4femzk34y3)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Sep 20, 2026.
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (3128 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
alpacalabsllc/skills-for-architects · 406 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-03 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_cgonhe4femzk34y3 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=alpacalabsllc/skills-for-architects/architecture-knowledge GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/64c893da130048563c999879020ee2a2a67e04b584058be817b55145eabd0037
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.