architecture-review-board SKILL.md skillA
architecture-review-board 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/architecture-review-board@git:20260728.fac4544Pins git:20260728.fac4544 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/big-tech-processes/architecture-review-board/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20260728.fac4544, committed Jul 28, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 18, 2026
- Size
- 3,967 bytes
- Repository stars
- 14
- License
- MIT
Run an Architecture Review Board that filters proposals by blast radius, reviews them through fixed lenses, issues binding decisions recorded as ADRs, and honors an appeals path. Use when a technical choice crosses team boundaries and needs a durable, accountable decision instead of hallway consensus.
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 review board An ARB exists to make the expensive, hard-to-reverse decisions once, with the right people present, and to write down why. Its failure modes are a matched pair: too loose and it stamps whatever arrives, too heavy and it becomes a tollbooth every team learns to route around. A board worth keeping reviews only what matters, decides with real authority, and leaves a record the next architect can trust. ## Method 1. **Set a submission bar keyed to blast radius.** Require review when a proposal adds a new datastore or language, crosses team boundaries, changes a shared contract, or opens a security or compliance surface. Apply the one-way-door test: reversible, two-way-door choices stay with the team. Everything else is noise the board should decline at intake. 2. **Demand a written proposal, not a calendar hold.** The submission is a design doc or ADR draft stating the problem, the options weighed, the recommendation, and the trade-off accepted. A board that reviews slides reviews charisma. Reject anything with a single option: one option is a decision already made, dressed as a question. …
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How to install
mdr add amey-thakur/ai-skills/architecture-review-board@sha256:a85ac33d95296a19The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260728.fac4544, 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 3 versions of this file, between Jul 18, 2026 and Jul 28, 2026, about one every 5 days.
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| git:20260728.fac4544 latest | 2026-07-28 | fac4544 | 3,967 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260718.ea9bc00 | 2026-07-18 | ea9bc00 | 3,964 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260718.7c1285c | 2026-07-18 | 7c1285c | 3,883 B | A | view |
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Source
amey-thakur/ai-skills · 14 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-06 · branch main
API
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