well-architected SKILL.md skillA
well-architected from avelikiy/great_cto is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add avelikiy/great_cto/well-architected@git:20260528.4d681c0Pins git:20260528.4d681c0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- avelikiy/great_cto
- Path
skills/well-architected/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260528.4d681c0, committed May 28, 2026
- First version recorded
- May 14, 2026
- Size
- 6,477 bytes
- Repository stars
- 112
- License
- MIT
6-pillar architecture review framework. Adapted from AWS Well-Architected for use by great_cto's architect agent on every non-nano ARCH document. Forces explicit answers across operational excellence, security, reliability, performance, cost, and sustainability — not just feature design.
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
# Well-Architected — 6 pillars to verify before shipping Every ARCH document for non-nano work must answer the 6 pillar questions below. Skipping a pillar is allowed only if explicitly justified (e.g. "Sustainability: N/A — backend-only, runs in shared infra."). This is adapted from AWS Well-Architected (lens: small-team SaaS / LLM applications), trimmed to questions that matter at <10 engineer scale. ## Pillar 1 — Operational excellence ### Questions 1. **Observability:** What metrics, logs, traces do we emit? How do we tell from a dashboard if this is working in prod? 2. **Deployability:** How do we ship a change? CI gates? Rollback path? 3. **Runbooks:** When this breaks at 3am, what does on-call read? ### Pass criteria - ✅ One metric per business outcome (e.g. webhook-deliveries-acked) - ✅ One log line per request, with request-id correlatable across services - ✅ Deploy path is documented and tested (rollback dry-run executed) - ✅ Runbook covers top-3 failure modes from pre-mortem ### Common fail ❌ "We'll add monitoring later." Monitoring is part of the feature. ## Pillar 2 — Security ### Questions …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add avelikiy/great_cto/well-architected@sha256:81c72d1869ab5c38The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260528.4d681c0, 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_h7h7ywc5246naa4b)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between May 14, 2026 and May 28, 2026, about one every 14 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260528.4d681c0 latest | 2026-05-28 | 4d681c0 | 6,477 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260514.ca9e7a0 | 2026-05-14 | ca9e7a0 | 6,464 B | A | view |
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 (6477 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
avelikiy/great_cto · 112 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-06 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_h7h7ywc5246naa4b GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=avelikiy/great_cto/well-architected GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/81c72d1869ab5c389b09cdd6a522ae90a1e9ecc51bf4660b995e6728a22a42ef
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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.