architecture-designer

Quick Review

Excellent architecture skill with clear description, well-organized structure, and comprehensive guidance. The Description clearly indicates when to invoke (system design, ADRs, scalability), making it easy for a CLI agent to determine applicability. The reference table elegantly offloads detailed patterns and templates to separate files, keeping SKILL.md concise while providing deep task knowledge. The workflow, constraints, and output templates give concrete steps for completing architecture tasks. Novelty is solid—architecture design requires significant context synthesis, trade-off analysis, and pattern knowledge that would consume many tokens if done ad-hoc. Minor improvement possible: slightly more explicit invocation examples in Description (e.g., 'design API gateway' or 'choose between SQL/NoSQL'), but current triggers are already quite comprehensive. The skill meaningfully reduces cost for complex architectural decision-making that would otherwise require extensive prompting.