architecture-refine SKILL.md skillA
architecture-refine from yarlson/yarstack is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add yarlson/yarstack/architecture-refine@git:20261017.2f2e03bPins git:20261017.2f2e03b in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- yarlson/yarstack
- Path
plugins/yarstack/skills/architecture-refine/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 4
- Latest version
- git:20261017.2f2e03b, committed Oct 17, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 18, 2026
- Size
- 2,003 bytes
- Repository stars
- 3
- License
- MIT
Settle open product or system architecture decisions with the user, one question at a time, before a plan or contract update. Use when a design has choices that only the user can make, such as tradeoffs in ownership, persistence, deployment, or migration; not for proposing a complete design, which belongs to system-design.
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 Refinement Settle only the architecture decisions that the user's next step needs, and record each decision with its reason. ## Interaction loop 1. Read the relevant code, documents, and constraints. Find facts yourself. Ask the user only about choices. 2. List the open decisions. Take first the decision that other decisions depend on or that costs most to reverse, such as a storage model, a public contract, or a tenancy boundary. 3. Ask one question. Put several constraints in one question only when the decision cannot be judged without all of them. 4. Give two or three concrete options with their main tradeoffs. Recommend one and give the reason. 5. Evaluate the user's answer and state its consequence for the design. If the answer conflicts with a constraint or an earlier decision, say so before you continue. 6. Repeat while an open decision still changes the user's next deliverable. Test each option against runtime boundaries, ownership, persistence, deployment, operations, security, migration, rollback, and support burden. Prefer the smallest design that works. Reject flexibility that leaves behavior undefined. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add yarlson/yarstack/architecture-refine@sha256:08520f5d4e553a9dThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261017.2f2e03b, 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_rdbq3zcn4cco3guf)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 4 versions of this file, between Jul 18, 2026 and Oct 17, 2026, about one every 30 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20261017.2f2e03b latest | 2026-10-17 | 2f2e03b | 2,003 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260718.1641e46 | 2026-07-18 | 1641e46 | 1,609 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260718.188cd11 | 2026-07-18 | 188cd11 | 1,626 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260718.7cc9d66 | 2026-07-18 | 7cc9d66 | 1,837 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 (2003 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
yarlson/yarstack · 3 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-19 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_rdbq3zcn4cco3guf GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=yarlson/yarstack/architecture-refine GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/08520f5d4e553a9d898316179ba664400cab4d3a88295646c4def0efbd29757f
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