improve-architecture SKILL.md skillA
improve-architecture from tomcounsell/ai is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
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- Audit grade
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- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- tomcounsell/ai
- Path
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- 1
- Latest version
- git:20261027.b1054fc, committed Oct 27, 2026
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- Repository stars
- 31
- License
- GPL-3.0
Architecture check-in for a growing macOS Swift codebase. Finds hot spots, proposes deeper modules, and refactors one step per commit with behavior proven unchanged. Use at the end of a milestone, before a big feature, when a file passes 600 lines, when one feature touches many files, when bugs repeat in one area, or when the user asks to refactor or clean up the code.
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
# Improve architecture Features pile up, and an app that was easy to change gets hard to change. A **check-in** catches that early: survey, propose, let the user pick, then refactor in small steps that keep behavior the same. The target shape for apps that grow is in [architecture.md](architecture.md). ## When to run Any one signal is enough: - The end of a milestone (the `improve-loop` skill calls this skill there). - Before a big feature. Ask: "What change to the code would make this feature easy?" - A Swift file over 600 lines (act at 1,000), a type over 400 lines, or "unable to type-check this expression". - One feature touched more than 6 files or more than 2 targets. - The same area shows up in 3 fix-log entries, or the same kind of bug happens twice. - State that changes more than 10 times a second sits on a model that many views observe. - A dependency cannot be replaced in a test. ## Vocabulary Use these words exactly, so proposals stay comparable: - **Module**: anything with an interface and an implementation (a type, a file group, a target). - **Interface**: everything a caller must know: signatures, ordering, error modes, threading, performance. …
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How to install
mdr add tomcounsell/ai/improve-architecture@sha256:eab9f3e36f4db654The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261027.b1054fc, 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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Source
tomcounsell/ai · 31 stars · license GPL-3.0 · pushed 2026-11-01 · branch main
API
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