architecture-trade-off-analysis SKILL.md skillA
architecture-trade-off-analysis from robsonkades/agent-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add robsonkades/agent-skills/architecture-trade-off-analysis@git:20260927.9ecadfdPins git:20260927.9ecadfd in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- robsonkades/agent-skills
- Path
skills/architecture-trade-off-analysis/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 4
- Latest version
- git:20260927.9ecadfd, committed Sep 27, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 28, 2026
- Size
- 8,682 bytes
- Repository stars
- 3
- License
- Apache-2.0
Compare architectural alternatives when quality goals conflict, a scorecard or case study is being used as a verdict, options mix abstraction levels, advocates disagree, or a benchmark needs a decision rule. Build comparable options, separate constraints from preferences, test domain scenarios and uncertainty, and recommend a choice or a bounded next step. Excludes ADR lifecycle (architecture-decision-making), quality-driver elicitation (architecture-characteristics), domain pattern selection…
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 Trade-off Analysis Determine which feasible option best fits the stated conditions, what it costs, and how sensitive that conclusion is to uncertain facts or stakeholder preferences. The result may be a recommendation, a conditional choice, or an explicit finding that evidence does not yet support selection. Always give an actionable next step; never manufacture a winner. ## Workflow 1. **Frame the decision.** Identify the affected system/operation, decision owner, deadline, current implementation and credible alternatives. Inspect available contracts, ADRs, code, tests, configuration and operational evidence for requirements, workload/change/ failure scenarios and deployment/data ownership. Distinguish explicit obligations from observed conventions; one implementation does not establish policy. Separate measured facts, forecasts, assumptions and preferences. Ask only for missing inputs that can change the conclusion; analyze known constraints while waiting. 2. **Choose proportionate effort.** Use the modes below. Reversal cost depends on data, consumers, migration and commitments after adoption, not team size or a technology name. …
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How to install
mdr add robsonkades/agent-skills/architecture-trade-off-analysis@sha256:f53d8686017e3170The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260927.9ecadfd, 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 4 versions of this file, between Aug 28, 2026 and Sep 27, 2026, about one every 10 days.
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| git:20260927.9ecadfd latest | 2026-09-27 | 9ecadfd | 8,682 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260906.e6ad4bd | 2026-09-06 | e6ad4bd | 7,701 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260903.f199530 | 2026-09-03 | f199530 | 16,578 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260828.5f76990 | 2026-08-28 | 5f76990 | 16,627 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (8682 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
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- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
robsonkades/agent-skills · 3 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-10-28 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ovzjutcuuuc6sshu GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=robsonkades/agent-skills/architecture-trade-off-analysis GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/f53d8686017e317089c10184ef2e7f31888b2e9d188b1845a3a650d283254ff0
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