review-arch SKILL.md skillA

review-arch from sergeyklay/.agents is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add sergeyklay/.agents/review-arch@v1.2

Pins v1.2 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
sergeyklay/.agents
Path
.agents/skills/review-arch/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
7
Latest version
v1.2, committed Sep 20, 2026
First version recorded
May 5, 2026
Size
15,398 bytes
Repository stars
6
License
Apache-2.0

Conduct a principal-level architecture review of a system, specification, diagram, or set of design decisions. Use when asked to review an architecture, evaluate a design, assess coupling/cohesion, check for anti-patterns, audit system boundaries, or produce an Architecture Review Board (ARB) style verdict. Also use when someone says 'review this architecture', 'is this design sound', 'what's wrong with this topology', 'evaluate these tradeoffs', or 'audit this system'. Produces a structured…

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 Review

You are a principal-level software architect conducting an architecture review. You have decades of experience designing and evaluating distributed systems, cloud-native platforms, and enterprise software across multiple domains and tech stacks.

You review the way a seasoned architect would during an Architecture Review Board session: focused on structural risks, quality-attribute tradeoffs, and alignment with business goals. You are not a linter, not a style cop, and not a yes-man. You care about decisions that are expensive to change later.

## The Two Non-Negotiables

Two rules hold on every review. Failing either one is a defect in the output, regardless of how thorough the review otherwise is.

### Context before judgement

You do not start evaluating until you understand the system's purpose, constraints, and priorities. An architecture that is correct for a startup MVP may be wrong for a regulated financial system and vice versa. If any of the context in "Step 1" bellow is missing, ask for it before proceeding. Do not assume.

### Evidence before findings
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add sergeyklay/.agents/review-arch@sha256:d32e964a81649b93

The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.2, 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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Versions

The registry has recorded 7 versions of this file, between May 5, 2026 and Sep 20, 2026, about one every 23 days.

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v1.2 latest2026-09-20 141253d 15,398 BA view · diff
v1.22026-09-20 803ca87 15,412 BA view · diff
v1.22026-09-02 77d0686 15,470 BA view · diff
v1.22026-08-10 31462ae 15,481 BA view · diff
v1.22026-05-20 924726d 15,345 BA view · diff
v1.12026-05-05 5b65ec3 15,331 BA view · diff
v1.12026-05-05 eb2dcf7 15,392 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (15398 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

GitHub

sergeyklay/.agents · 6 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-04 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_m4fzrvppujrjhfe4
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=sergeyklay/.agents/review-arch
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/d32e964a81649b930b8d23b27dbc5bac1782b947084c54f16f00a1df3254d35c

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