coupling SKILL.md skillA
coupling from wntic/pyhouse is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add wntic/pyhouse/coupling@git:20261011.4a676acPins git:20261011.4a676ac in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- wntic/pyhouse
- Path
plugins/pyhouse-universal/skills/coupling/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20261011.4a676ac, committed Oct 11, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 26, 2026
- Size
- 18,446 bytes
- Repository stars
- 3
- License
- MIT
Use when asking whether something should be one module or two — splitting a package, extracting a service, merging two, or why a simple area keeps breaking. Weighs shared knowledge, distance and volatility to place a boundary — not which layer layout a service uses (`hex-architecture`, `flat-layered`), nor module and import mechanics (`python-packaging`). - Should these two packages be one; do we need a contract here or can they share the model; how much structure does this component deserve…
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
# Coupling — where boundaries go and what may cross them Every architecture skill in this set answers "given a boundary, what goes on each side, what is each part called, and what may import what". This one answers the question *before* that: **where the boundary goes, how much knowledge may cross it, and how much design effort the components on either side deserve.** It is architecture-neutral — a hexagonal app, a flat-layered worker and a monorepo of both get the same answers — and it is loaded *alongside* whichever architecture skill owns the layout, never instead of it. The vocabulary below — shared knowledge, distance, volatility, the counterbalance between them — is **Vlad Khononov's Balanced Coupling model**, set out in *Balancing Coupling in Software Design* (Addison-Wesley) and at [coupling.dev](https://coupling.dev). The model is his. What follows is this catalogue's own restatement of it in this set's terms rather than a reproduction of his text, and where the two differ the book is right. Read it for the full treatment — the continuous form of the balance rule, the worked cases and the connascence detail all live there and are only gestured at here. …
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How to install
mdr add wntic/pyhouse/coupling@sha256:390b7850a86adabbThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261011.4a676ac, 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 5 versions of this file, between Sep 26, 2026 and Oct 11, 2026, about one every 4 days.
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| git:20261011.4a676ac latest | 2026-10-11 | 4a676ac | 18,446 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261011.363b85e | 2026-10-11 | 363b85e | 18,457 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260927.182a535 | 2026-09-27 | 182a535 | 18,406 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260926.f961f2e | 2026-09-26 | f961f2e | 18,444 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260926.c15a75c | 2026-09-26 | c15a75c | 19,401 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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Source
wntic/pyhouse · 3 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-05 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_lhlfwtaggpxh5b4b GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=wntic/pyhouse/coupling GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/390b7850a86adabb6a589b12b73299d27d1e3b1e354de9079b07561d80433ff7
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