architectural-design-principles SKILL.md skillA
architectural-design-principles from databricks-solutions/consort is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add databricks-solutions/consort/architectural-design-principles@git:20260726.d778758Pins git:20260726.d778758 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- databricks-solutions/consort
- Path
skills/architectural-design-principles/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20260726.d778758, committed Jul 26, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jun 11, 2026
- Size
- 5,697 bytes
- Repository stars
- 38
- License
- a license file GitHub does not identify
System-level engineering canon, the architecture counterpart to software-design-principles. Layered architecture + dependency direction, ports and adapters (repository / ORM-as-adapter), the twelve-factor app for cloud-native development, evolutionary architecture with fitness functions, and evolutionary database design (schema that evolves by migration on paired branches). Imported by workflow skills (consort, lakebase-scm-workflows). Use when: shaping a system boundary, deciding what is a…
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What the file says
# architectural-design-principles
Canon for decisions above the function and class. `software-design-principles` governs how a unit of code is written (SOLID, DRY, clean code); this skill governs how the system is shaped: layers, boundaries, its relationship to the platform, and how those properties stay true over time. Read it alongside that skill, not instead of it.
Markdown only, no scripts: consulted, not invoked. Its job is to point each architectural rule at the **fitness function** that enforces it. A rule no test defends is advisory; a rule a fitness function defends is part of the build.
## When to use
- A workflow skill's agent contract tells you to import it (e.g. the `consort` Architect Reviewer reviews every design against layering + twelve-factor; the Test Strategist authors the fitness functions named here).
- You're deciding a system boundary: what is a layer, a backing service, where config lives, what is stateless.
- You're about to declare an architectural constraint ("we use an ORM", "raw SQL appears only in the repository layer") and need it enforced, not just written down.
## Architectural fitness checklist (mandatory before promote/merge)
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add databricks-solutions/consort/architectural-design-principles@sha256:19b50d56df3790fbThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260726.d778758, 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 Jun 11, 2026 and Jul 26, 2026, about one every 11 days.
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| git:20260726.d778758 latest | 2026-07-26 | d778758 | 5,697 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260726.c0a20d9 | 2026-07-26 | c0a20d9 | 5,827 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260620.466bd8e | 2026-06-20 | 466bd8e | 5,563 B | A | view · diff |
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Audit of the latest version
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Source
databricks-solutions/consort · 38 stars · license a license file GitHub does not identify · pushed 2026-11-07 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_mmhkhgwqzlduglrq GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=databricks-solutions/consort/architectural-design-principles GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/19b50d56df3790fb34dd69f931606ec56792fe1fc525dfa4603976cd12a2ce2f
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