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gof-pattern-thinking 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/gof-pattern-thinking@git:20261028.082d2f4Pins git:20261028.082d2f4 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
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- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- robsonkades/agent-skills
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skills/gof-pattern-thinking/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20261028.082d2f4, committed Oct 28, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 6, 2026
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- 12,728 bytes
- Repository stars
- 3
- License
- Apache-2.0
Reasoning from a design problem to a design, where a Gang-of-Four pattern is one possible outcome and "no pattern" is an equally valid one: naming the forces, identifying what varies and along how many axes, walking the alternatives ladder from language feature up to architecture, and pricing the indirection before adopting it. Use gof-pattern-selection to shortlist unresolved choices once the forces are understood. Use when a pattern name is proposed before the problem is stated, when a…
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What the file says
# Pattern Thinking
## Purpose
Produce the simplest design that survives the change the system will actually see. A pattern is
a named set of _consequences_, not a named structure — adopting one means accepting its costs
because a force demands them. The two failures this exists to prevent are the design that names
a pattern before it has a problem, and the design that reinvents one badly because the vocabulary
was refused.
The output of this reasoning is frequently **no pattern**. That is a result, not a failure to
find one.
## The order of reasoning
```text
Problem what breaks, or is about to, in observable terms
↓
Context where it occurs — layer, lifetime, process, boundary
↓
Forces the concerns that compete: change rate, coupling,
performance, testability, concurrency, compatibility
↓
Variation what varies, along how many axes, and against what
↓
Alternatives relevant options below, direct implementation first
↓
Decision lowest justified lifecycle cost among viable options
↓
Consequences what got worse, written down
```
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How to install
mdr add robsonkades/agent-skills/gof-pattern-thinking@sha256:680d7989ed5dfa36The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261028.082d2f4, 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 Sep 6, 2026 and Oct 28, 2026, about one every 13 days.
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| git:20261028.082d2f4 latest | 2026-10-28 | 082d2f4 | 12,728 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260927.9ecadfd | 2026-09-27 | 9ecadfd | 12,547 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260923.832673e | 2026-09-23 | 832673e | 12,375 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260911.37b054b | 2026-09-11 | 37b054b | 12,186 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260906.e6ad4bd | 2026-09-06 | e6ad4bd | 10,955 B | A | view |
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Source
robsonkades/agent-skills · 3 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-10-28 · branch main
API
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