software-design-principles SKILL.md skillA
software-design-principles from databricks-solutions/consort is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add databricks-solutions/consort/software-design-principles@git:20260806.11b1375Pins git:20260806.11b1375 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- databricks-solutions/consort
- Path
skills/software-design-principles/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20260806.11b1375, committed Aug 6, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jun 20, 2026
- Size
- 5,890 bytes
- Repository stars
- 38
- License
- a license file GitHub does not identify
Foundational engineering canon – SOLID, DRY, clean code, layered architecture, cross-cutting concerns, NFRs. Imported by workflow skills (consort, lakebase-scm-workflows). Use when designing a module, reviewing a PR, planning a refactor, mapping cross-cutting concerns to layers, or arguing about API shape.
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
# software-design-principles The code-level engineering canon. Markdown only, no scripts – consulted, not invoked. Workflow skills cite it; agents and humans read it. Larger scopes live in the sibling skills `architectural-design-principles` (system-level) and `ui-ux-design-principles` (experience-level). ## Architectural concerns mapping (mandatory before promote/merge) Fill this in for any non-trivial change before calling the design done. An unfilled row, or a concern with no clear owner, is a design smell – resolve it before merging. | Concern | Layer | Owner module | Cross-cutting? | |---|---|---|---| | Authentication | HTTP / boundary | `<module>` | Yes | | Authorization | Service | `<module>` | Yes | | Capability resolution | Service | `<module>` | Yes | | Audit logging | Cross-cutting | `<module>` | Yes | | Rate limiting | HTTP / boundary | `<module>` | Yes | | Schema validation | HTTP / boundary | `<module>` | Yes | | Policy config | Service / config | `<module>` | Yes | | Domain logic | Service | `<module>` | No | | Storage | Infrastructure | `<module>` | No | ## References - [SOLID](references/solid.md) – the five object-design rules. …
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How to install
mdr add databricks-solutions/consort/software-design-principles@sha256:fbf878efbae99c9cThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260806.11b1375, 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 5 versions of this file, between Jun 20, 2026 and Aug 6, 2026, about one every 12 days.
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| git:20260806.11b1375 latest | 2026-08-06 | 11b1375 | 5,890 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260726.d778758 | 2026-07-26 | d778758 | 5,897 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260726.c0a20d9 | 2026-07-26 | c0a20d9 | 6,002 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260627.9a7b266 | 2026-06-27 | 9a7b266 | 6,036 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260620.466bd8e | 2026-06-20 | 466bd8e | 3,695 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (5890 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
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
databricks-solutions/consort · 38 stars · license a license file GitHub does not identify · pushed 2026-11-07 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ut6ipufdyjvpvgew GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=databricks-solutions/consort/software-design-principles GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/fbf878efbae99c9c2731668c2c2e9058a597387f14650215749c2893c14428fa
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