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

Install it, pinned
mdr add wondelai/skills/architecture-optimization@v1.0.0

Pins v1.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

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Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
wondelai/skills
Path
plugins/metaskills/skills/architecture-optimization/SKILL.md
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Latest version
v1.0.0, committed Aug 28, 2026
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Aug 28, 2026
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Repository stars
2,472
License
MIT

Guided journey from a working codebase grown slow and tangled to one measurably fast, cleanly bounded, and readable. Orchestrates eight skills phase by phase - working-with-legacy-code, clean-architecture, software-design-philosophy, refactoring-patterns, system-design, ddia-systems, release-it, pragmatic-programmer - every phase carries its method inline so it runs standalone, asking the user questions at every decision point and recording results in the project docs/ folder…

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 Optimization

Optimize a working codebase on three axes at once — architecture, code quality, and performance —
without breaking what works. This is an interactive, resumable journey of eight phases: the agent asks
before every decision and records the outcome in your project's `docs/` folder, so you can stop after
any phase and pick up later. It is for a system that ships and earns but has grown slow and tangled;
the structure phases make the code safe and cheap to change, the performance phases make it measurably
fast, and the closing phases keep it that way.

## Core Principle

**Measure before optimizing, pin before restructuring — the profiler and the safety net decide, not
intuition.** Premature optimization is the root of much evil not because optimization is bad, but
because unmeasured optimization targets the wrong 97% of the code; and a restructure without pinned
behavior is a gamble, not an improvement. This skill sequences the phases, asks the decision
questions, and records every choice in `docs/`. The constituent skills carry the method — invoke them
rather than improvising their frameworks.

## Journey Map
…

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How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add wondelai/skills/architecture-optimization@sha256:f52ac42637adf012

The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.0, 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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The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, all committed on Aug 28, 2026.

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  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
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  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (29595 bytes)
  • pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
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  • pass: No credential-shaped string
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Source

GitHub

wondelai/skills · 2,472 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-10 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_d3nsqgaxr7bgfe2q
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=wondelai/skills/architecture-optimization
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/f52ac42637adf0122a4d4ab9355a68eb4e1b30a29e553fb74f375c9d43de8302

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.

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