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Guided journey from an app idea to a deliberate architecture: boundaries, domain model, data decisions, and resilience, making only the expensive-to-reverse decisions and deferring the rest. Orchestrates eight skills phase by phase - clean-architecture, domain-driven-design, system-design, ddia-systems, software-design-philosophy, release-it, pragmatic-programmer, 37signals-way - asking the user questions at every decision point and recording results in the project docs/ folder (ARCHITECTURE.md, RELIABILITY.md, DESIGN-CODE-ARCHITECTURE-PLAN.md) so the journey resumes across sessions. Use when the user wants to design a new app's architecture, choose boundaries and a domain model before building, decide monolith versus microservices, or says 'how should I structure this app'. If a codebase already exists, use remove-technical-debt (aged) or improve-code-quality (fresh prototype); if the idea is not validated, run create-business or create-app first. For one framework in isolation, invoke that skill directly.
Guided journey from a working-but-untested vibe-coded prototype to a production-ready product with tests, clean structure, a business-rules boundary, and resilience at scale. Orchestrates nine skills phase by phase - working-with-legacy-code, clean-code, refactoring-patterns, software-design-philosophy, clean-architecture, pragmatic-programmer, release-it, system-design, ddia-systems - asking the user questions at every decision point and recording results in the project docs/ folder (TESTING.md, TECH-DEBT.md, RELIABILITY.md, IMPROVE-CODE-QUALITY-PLAN.md) so the journey resumes across sessions. Use when the user wants to harden an AI-generated prototype, add tests before refactoring, make code safe to change, or says 'this works on my machine but I am scared to touch it'. For a large aged codebase, use remove-technical-debt; to decide structure before building, use design-code-architecture; for a product and UX pass, use improve-app. For one framework in isolation, invoke that skill directly.
Guided journey from a working codebase grown slow and tangled to one measurably fast, cleanly bounded, and readable. Orchestrates eight skills phase by phase - working-with-legacy-code, clean-architecture, software-design-philosophy, refactoring-patterns, system-design, ddia-systems, release-it, pragmatic-programmer - every phase carries its method inline so it runs standalone, asking the user questions at every decision point and recording results in the project docs/ folder (PERFORMANCE.md, ARCHITECTURE.md, ARCHITECTURE-OPTIMIZATION-PLAN.md) so the journey resumes across sessions. Use when the user wants to make an app faster, untangle drifted boundaries, fix slow endpoints and queries, or says 'it works but it is slow and getting worse'. For an untested prototype, improve-code-quality; for an aged codebase you fear to touch, remove-technical-debt; for greenfield structure, design-code-architecture; for marketing-site page speed, improve-website. For one framework in isolation, invoke that skill directly.
Software architecture and system design - scalability patterns, reliability engineering, and the art of making technical trade-offs that survive productionUse when "system design, architecture, scalability, how should we structure, distributed, microservices, monolith, high availability, design the system, component diagram, architecture, system-design, scalability, reliability, distributed, api, modeling, c4" mentioned.
Clarify ambiguous or conflicting requests by researching first, then asking only judgment calls. Use when prompts say "$grill-me"/"grill me", ask hard questions, request relentless interrogation, pressure-test assumptions, clarify scope/requirements, define success criteria, or request system-design/optimization decisions before implementation; stop before implementation.
Build production-ready systems with stability patterns: circuit breakers, bulkheads, timeouts, and retry logic. Use when the user mentions "production outage", "circuit breaker", "timeout strategy", "deployment pipeline", or "chaos engineering". Covers capacity planning, health checks, and anti-fragility patterns. For data systems, see ddia-systems. For system architecture, see system-design.
Design data systems by understanding storage engines, replication, partitioning, transactions, and consistency models. Use when the user mentions "database choice", "replication lag", "partitioning strategy", "consistency vs availability", or "stream processing". Covers data models, batch/stream processing, and distributed consensus. For system design, see system-design. For resilience, see release-it.
Guided journey from a raw app idea to a validated, cleanly architected first version that ships on a sustainable cadence. Orchestrates ten skills phase by phase - lean-startup, design-sprint, clean-architecture, domain-driven-design, clean-code, pragmatic-programmer, system-design, ios-hig-design, 37signals-way, software-design-philosophy - asking the user questions at every decision point and recording results in the project docs/ folder (PRODUCT.md, ARCHITECTURE.md, EXPERIMENTS.md, CREATE-APP-PLAN.md) so the journey resumes across sessions. Use when the user wants to build a new app, validate an idea before writing code, architect an MVP that will not need a rewrite, or says 'help me build my app the right way'. App already exists: use improve-app or grow-app. Business idea not yet validated: run create-business first. Marketing site only: use create-website. Architecture-only question: design-code-architecture. For one framework in isolation, invoke that skill directly.
Use the DRI Text Analysis Method (Data-Rule-Interaction) to perform word-by-word decomposition and domain modeling on natural language requirement descriptions. Reduce unstructured business requirement texts to structured architectural abstractions in three dimensions: Data (D), Rule (R), and Interaction (I), and directly generate conceptual tables usable for system design. It is suitable for requirement analysis, ubiquitous language extraction, text parsing before architecture design, and converting long requirement documents into clear development task decompositions.
Design stress-test engine. Does NOT generate designs — it pressure-tests YOUR existing draft against real-world edge cases, code constraints, and failure paths. One sharp question at a time, drilling down the decision tree, using code facts to stress-test assumptions, then outputs a tight Facet Brief. NOT for: executing clear tasks, factual Q&A, or pure brainstorming (go brainstorm first, then come back with a direction). Triggers: "facet / pressure-test this plan / stress-test the design".
Interprets authoritative specs and helps design a new implementation collaboratively, preserving required business, API, and database contracts while exploring architecture, stack, and delivery options with the user. Use when the user wants to start a new project from frozen specs, discuss implementation approaches, or plan an incremental rebuild without depending on the legacy codebase.
Create technical diagrams using Mermaid syntax for architecture, sequences, ERDs, flowcharts, and state machines. Use for visualizing system design, data flows, C4 models, and process diagrams in documentation.