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improve-codebase-architecture from asymmetric-al/core is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add asymmetric-al/core/improve-codebase-architecture@git:20260923.15c9348

Pins git:20260923.15c9348 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
asymmetric-al/core
Path
.agents/skills/improve-codebase-architecture/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
4
Latest version
git:20260923.15c9348, committed Sep 23, 2026
First version recorded
Apr 29, 2026
Size
5,993 bytes
Repository stars
379
License
AGPL-3.0

Scan a codebase for deepening opportunities, present them as a visual HTML report, then grill through whichever one you pick.

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

# Improve Codebase Architecture

Surface architectural friction and propose **deepening opportunities**: refactors that turn shallow modules into deep ones. The aim is testability and AI-navigability.

This command is _informed_ by the project's domain model and built on a shared design vocabulary:

- Call the Skill tool with "codebase-design" for the architecture vocabulary (**module**, **interface**, **depth**, **seam**, **adapter**, **leverage**, **locality**) and its principles (the deletion test, "the interface is the test surface", "one adapter = hypothetical seam, two = real"). Use these terms exactly in every suggestion, and don't drift into "component," "service," "API," or "boundary."
- The domain language in `CONTEXT.md` gives names to good seams; ADRs in `docs/adr/` record decisions this command should not re-litigate.

## Process

### 1. Explore

**Scope before you scan: YAGNI.** Deepening a module pays off by making future changes to it easier, so put extra weight on the parts of the codebase that have recently changed. Decide _where_ to look before you look:
…

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How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add asymmetric-al/core/improve-codebase-architecture@sha256:5f98717652b5ae57

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260923.15c9348, 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 Apr 29, 2026 and Sep 23, 2026, about one every 49 days.

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  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (5993 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
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  • pass: No link to a raw IP address
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Source

GitHub

asymmetric-al/core · 379 stars · license AGPL-3.0 · pushed 2026-10-22 · branch develop

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_tklulrnxcrvivqau
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=asymmetric-al/core/improve-codebase-architecture
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/5f98717652b5ae5752d36d0f86c0010ba9d86df373c459e741c746aa29826048

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