025-quality-attribute-discovery SKILL.md skillA
025-quality-attribute-discovery from jabrena/plinth is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add jabrena/plinth/025-quality-attribute-discovery@v0.19.0Pins v0.19.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
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- SKILL.md skill
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- jabrena/plinth
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skills/025-quality-attribute-discovery/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- v0.19.0, committed Sep 26, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 1, 2026
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- 3,778 bytes
- Repository stars
- 461
- License
- Apache-2.0
Use when a problem under exploration needs its quality attributes (non-functional requirements) identified and prioritized before architecture and design begin. This should trigger when an issue's Quality Attribute Discovery point of view needs evaluation, or when a maintainer directly asks to discover and prioritize candidate quality attributes for a problem, before any ADR or design work starts. Part of Plinth Toolkit.
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
# Quality Attribute Discovery Guide identification and prioritization of the quality attributes a future solution must satisfy, before architecture and design decisions begin. **This is an interactive SKILL**. **What is covered in this Skill?** - Identifying candidate quality attributes (for example performance, security, availability, maintainability, scalability, usability, observability) relevant to the problem - Grounding each candidate in evidence from the problem frame, root causes, assumptions, and context map, not a generic checklist - Prioritizing candidate quality attributes by stakeholder impact and risk - Stopping at a prioritized discovery list rather than selecting or recording an architectural decision - Explicitly not producing ADRs or an architecture direction itself ## Constraints Discover and prioritize candidate quality attributes as input to later architecture work; do not make or record the architecture decision here. When this technique is orchestrated by another workflow, the orchestrator owns clarifying-question sequencing; when applied standalone, ask directly. …
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How to install
mdr add jabrena/plinth/025-quality-attribute-discovery@sha256:4a412dea36bcb6e8The line at the top of this page pins the label v0.19.0, 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 2 versions of this file, between Aug 1, 2026 and Sep 26, 2026, about one every 56 days.
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| v0.19.0 latest | 2026-09-26 | 9569c35 | 3,778 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.18.0 | 2026-08-01 | 26b0e71 | 3,778 B | A | view |
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Source
jabrena/plinth · 461 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-06 · branch main
API
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