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Install it, pinned
mdr add robsonkades/agent-skills/enterprise-architecture-smells@git:20260927.9ecadfd

Pins git:20260927.9ecadfd in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
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SKILL.md skill
Repository
robsonkades/agent-skills
Path
skills/enterprise-architecture-smells/SKILL.md
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Latest version
git:20260927.9ecadfd, committed Sep 27, 2026
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Repository stars
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License
Apache-2.0

Detecting structural problems in an enterprise application from evidence, and telling genuine harm apart from unfamiliar-but-fine: anaemic domain models, god services, transaction-script sprawl, generic repositories, excessive layering and DTO mapping, leaky abstractions, distributed monoliths, persistence leakage, and abstractions that only move complexity. Use when reviewing an architecture or a large pull request, when adding a field touches seven files, when a "clean architecture" refactor…

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What the file says

# Enterprise Architecture Smells

## Purpose

Turn architectural unease into findings with evidence, and stop the two opposite mistakes
that reviews make: declaring a smell because a structure is unfamiliar, and missing one
because every individual file looks reasonable.

A smell is not a defect. It is a **symptom that warrants investigation**, and it becomes a
finding only when a concrete harm can be named: a change that is riskier, a caller that can
break, a test that cannot be written, a cost that is being paid for nothing.

Return findings and proposed corrections for a review request. Implement a correction only
when fixes are within the user's requested scope; the removal procedures in the references
do not extend that scope. An authorized fix should preserve the same contracts the review
uses to judge the design.

## Workflow

1. **Observe, do not diagnose.** Record what is actually there: file counts per change,
   layer counts, imports, method bodies that only forward. Reuse the requested scope,
   accepted decisions, caller contracts and existing evidence before asking for missing
   context; investigate only uncertainties that could change a finding or correction.
…

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How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add robsonkades/agent-skills/enterprise-architecture-smells@sha256:7ec32a3f81927e61

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Source

GitHub

robsonkades/agent-skills · 3 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-10-28 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_krkh6jlektncumat
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=robsonkades/agent-skills/enterprise-architecture-smells
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/7ec32a3f81927e61b70f86ce66a937642dccf31b8596a199f255918057625227

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