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architecture-characteristics 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-characteristics@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
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skills/architecture-characteristics/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 4
- Latest version
- git:20260927.9ecadfd, committed Sep 27, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 28, 2026
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- 7,393 bytes
- Repository stars
- 3
- License
- Apache-2.0
Derive and prioritize architectural quality drivers when requirements say only scalable or reliable, too many qualities are called top priority, stakeholders disagree on their meaning, or one list is applied across unrelated services. Define scope, sources, observable scenarios, baseline obligations and reasons for deferring candidates. Covers terminology and quality-model interpretation; excludes choosing design options (architecture-trade-off-analysis), recording ADRs…
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 Characteristics Produce a small, justified set of qualities that shape the design, with their meanings, scope and priorities made explicit. A shortlist guides design attention; it is not a list of the only requirements the system must satisfy. ## Workflow 1. **Establish scope and evidence.** Obtain the business operation/domain, affected users, critical failure/change situations, requirements and stakeholder concerns. Identify decision owners and known constraints. Reuse approved scenarios, contracts and prior decisions; distinguish their authority from observed conventions and new assumptions. Reopen only the affected scenarios when scope, obligations or evidence have changed. For an existing system, inspect relevant incidents, traffic, deployment/change history and dependency diagrams. For greenfield, label forecasts and assumptions; do not invent baseline measurements. 2. **Elicit candidates before ranking.** Read [eliciting-and-capping.md](references/eliciting-and-capping.md) when creating or revising a list or resolving stakeholder priorities. Link each candidate to an explicit requirement, …
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How to install
mdr add robsonkades/agent-skills/architecture-characteristics@sha256:cd0f0557a1e14316The 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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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 | 7,393 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260923.832673e | 2026-09-23 | 832673e | 6,062 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260906.e6ad4bd | 2026-09-06 | e6ad4bd | 5,701 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260828.5f76990 | 2026-08-28 | 5f76990 | 23,503 B | A | view |
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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_sse4j3oj6b3vwciq GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=robsonkades/agent-skills/architecture-characteristics GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/cd0f0557a1e1431653ecb0c1b16a9f50ce9d6d0be88fbc1716ab10232ee382a7
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