monolith-first SKILL.md skillA
monolith-first from amey-thakur/ai-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add amey-thakur/ai-skills/monolith-first@git:20260720.67d6135Pins git:20260720.67d6135 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- amey-thakur/ai-skills
- Path
skills/architecture/monolith-first/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260720.67d6135, committed Jul 20, 2026
- Size
- 3,701 bytes
- Repository stars
- 14
- License
- MIT
Build a modular monolith with clean internal seams and split to services only on proven pressure. Use when starting a system or resisting premature microservice decomposition.
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
# Monolith first Most systems should start as a well-structured monolith and stay one longer than fashion suggests. A modular monolith gives you clean boundaries without network complexity; you extract services later, from seams you have proven, when a specific pressure demands it. ## Method 1. **Build modules with the discipline of services, minus the network.** Clear internal boundaries (packages/ modules by business capability: see microservices-boundaries' capability split), each owning its data and exposing an interface other modules call: in-process, but as if it were a contract. This is the whole trick: service-grade boundaries, in-process simplicity (see module-boundaries, layered-architecture). 2. **Enforce boundaries the compiler cannot forget.** Module dependencies point one way (see coupling-analysis), cross-module access goes through the interface not the internals, and tooling (visibility modifiers, package rules, architecture-fitness tests) fails the build when a module reaches past a boundary. Boundaries maintained by good intentions dissolve; enforced ones survive to become extraction seams. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add amey-thakur/ai-skills/monolith-first@sha256:420f116d68690951The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260720.67d6135, 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 1 version of this file, committed on Jul 20, 2026.
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Source
amey-thakur/ai-skills · 14 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-06 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_s67ibquxgvpqu5jg GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=amey-thakur/ai-skills/monolith-first GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/420f116d686909510cf5a24b3d5823adfd3e8e8d918b0463a4a755475b16e0cc
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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.