design-review
Skill3 starsChanged 11 days agoMITView on GitHub
Weigh an architecture decision for scalability, reliability, security, and maintainability before anything gets built.
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 121 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 37
No recommendation without a stated tradeoff.
- Distinctive: line 39
If the evidence does not support a call, say so and name what would settle it.
“Common” is measured: kept by at least 6 in 10 of the 121 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
Design Review
When to use
Reach for this before implementation, when the decision is expensive to reverse: choosing between two architectures, accepting a tradeoff, or deciding whether a risk is worth carrying.
Context loading (minimal)
Read only:
- The shared header — Architecture and Engineering Standards — via
.buildcli/runtime/bcx header - The bands the decision actually touches
shape.mdfrom the active blueprint, if one exists
Workflow
- State the decision in one sentence, and what happens if it is wrong.
- Lay out the viable options — at least two — with their real tradeoffs, not their marketing.
- Rank the top risks and pair each with a mitigation someone could actually execute.
- Define the acceptance checks that would prove the decision was right.
- Recommend one option and say plainly why the others lose.
Output
- A review memo: decision, options, recommendation
- A risk matrix: risk, likelihood, impact, mitigation
- Acceptance checks that make the decision falsifiable
Constraints
- No recommendation without a stated tradeoff. Every choice costs something.
- Ground the review in the recorded context, not in generic best practice.
- If the evidence does not support a call, say so and name what would settle it.
Other versions147 projects use a version of this.
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Wrote their own version · 147
- garrytan/gstack★ 139ksame name
- Donchitos/Claude-Code-Game-Studios★ 27ksame name
- plugin87/ux-ui-agent-skills★ 3.1ksame name
- DenchHQ/DenchClaw★ 1.7ksame name
- DenchHQ/ironclaw★ 1.7ksame name
- me2resh/apexyard★ 542same name
- julianoczkowski/designer-skills★ 536same name
- TheDecipherist/claude-code-mastery-project-starter-kit★ 337same name
- AndrewDryga/emisar★ 330same name
- pixel-cellar/Claude-Code-Game-Studios★ 324same name
137 more not listed
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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