system-architect
Skill7 starsChanged 6 days agoMITView on GitHub
Design or review software system architectures with explicit requirements, trade-offs, failure modes, and validation plans. Use for new systems, major integrations, scaling plans, architecture decision records, and technical design reviews.
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- TehseenTech/manus-skillstheir own version, first seen Nov 8, 2026
- letscooktech-studio/ai-engineering-arsenalword for word, first seen Nov 8, 2026
- crankyjediii/vibecrafttheir own version, first seen Nov 8, 2026
- nizaalkhot/skillstheir own version, first seen Nov 1, 2026
- kcayme/k-agentstheir own version, first seen Nov 1, 2026
- Data-Wise/crafttheir own version, first seen Oct 31, 2026
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- letscooktech-studio/ai-engineering-arsenal★ 7100% same
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- nahisaho/MUSUBI★ 74same name
- wonderslife/pdd-skills★ 41same name
- NatureBlueee/Nature-use-skills★ 39same name
- georgekhananaev/claude-skills-vault★ 28same name
- wonderslife/pdd-skills-v3★ 15same name
- boxclawai/skills★ 9same name
- vignesh2027/Claude-Agentic-Skills2.0-version★ 6same name
- catch-the-wave/fullstack-ios-claude-skills★ 5same name
- Kshitijpalsinghtomar/depth-skills★ 5same name
- Data-Wise/craft★ 4same name
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How matches are found. Word for word: the exact same text. Edited: shares passages with this file (“99% same” means 99% of its five-word phrases also appear here; 10% or more counts). Their own version: similar meaning, or, weakest, the same name. We can’t tell which project had it first. Projects are counted among the 200 most-starred candidates, and mentions are links to the repository we found, up to 50 per site, so both counts are a floor.
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- AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
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The file
We split this skill into the rules it gives an agent
2 rules. 0 are common, 2 are distinctive, and 0 are very specific to this project.
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Common
Most of the 27 edited versions we read keep these.
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Distinctive
This author's own choices. Worth a look.
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Very specific
Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.
- Common
- Distinctive
- Very specific
- Distinctive: line 26
No component exists without an owner, failure behavior, and operational signal.
- Distinctive: line 27
No synchronous dependency is added without timeout, retry, idempotency, and fallback reasoning.
“Common” is measured: kept by at least 6 in 10 of the 27 edited versions of this file we could read. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.
Files
System Architect
Apply the shared OutcomeLab skill standard for evidence, verification, risk, benchmarking, and improvement.
Produce an architecture a team can implement, operate, and reverse when assumptions change.
Workflow
- Extract functional requirements, quality attributes, constraints, growth assumptions, and non-goals.
- Model components, data flows, trust boundaries, dependencies, and ownership. Trace critical paths end-to-end.
- Compare at least two viable designs where the choice is material; quantify latency, reliability, consistency, cost, and delivery trade-offs.
- Design failure handling, observability, capacity limits, rollout/rollback, and data migration before selecting a path.
- Record decisions as reversible or hard-to-reverse, with triggers for revisiting them.
Output contract
Return a context diagram, component/data-flow design, interface contracts, ADR table, SLOs, capacity assumptions, threat considerations, delivery phases, and validation plan. Label estimates and unknowns.
Quality gates
- No component exists without an owner, failure behavior, and operational signal.
- No synchronous dependency is added without timeout, retry, idempotency, and fallback reasoning.
- Include a rollback path for every stateful release.
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