improve-codebase-architecture SKILL.md skillA
improve-codebase-architecture from pc-style/x-md is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add pc-style/x-md/improve-codebase-architecture@git:20260911.116bcd3Pins git:20260911.116bcd3 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- pc-style/x-md
- Path
.agents/skills/improve-codebase-architecture/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260911.116bcd3, committed Sep 11, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 10, 2026
- Size
- 6,087 bytes
- Repository stars
- 186
- License
- MIT
Scan a codebase for deepening opportunities, present them as a visual HTML report, then grill through whichever one you pick.
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 Codebase Architecture Surface architectural friction and propose **deepening opportunities**: refactors that turn shallow modules into deep ones. The aim is testability and AI-navigability. This command is _informed_ by the project's domain model and built on a shared design vocabulary: - Call the Skill tool with "codebase-design" for the architecture vocabulary (**module**, **interface**, **depth**, **seam**, **adapter**, **leverage**, **locality**) and its principles (the deletion test, "the interface is the test surface", "one adapter = hypothetical seam, two = real"). Use these terms exactly in every suggestion, and don't drift into "component," "service," "API," or "boundary." - The domain language in `CONTEXT.md` gives names to good seams; ADRs in `docs/adr/` record decisions this command should not re-litigate. ## Process ### 1. Explore **Scope before you scan: YAGNI.** Deepening a module pays off by making future changes to it easier, so put extra weight on the parts of the codebase that have recently changed. Decide *where* to look before you look: …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add pc-style/x-md/improve-codebase-architecture@sha256:514147c4ac984f30The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260911.116bcd3, 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_muls5jewiwzk3lyl)
5 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.
Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Sep 10, 2026 and Sep 11, 2026, more than one a day.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260911.116bcd3 latest | 2026-09-11 | 116bcd3 | 6,087 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260910.b48a94a | 2026-09-10 | b48a94a | 5,993 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (6087 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
pc-style/x-md · 186 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-30 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_muls5jewiwzk3lyl GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=pc-style/x-md/improve-codebase-architecture GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/514147c4ac984f3074481cbba9915ad3159dc30dae67330c3687ba528af13446
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.