design-target-architecture

design-target-architecture is a skill for Cursor from Jacoby6000/Smithplates. It costs 73 tokens per session (1,370 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A method for designing a target architecture, meaning a description of how a system should be structured in the future. It defines interfaces, data models, implementations, responsibilities, and relationships from a project concept and high-level architecture.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to describe the intended layers, boundaries, components, constraints, and types for a new system or a major architectural change.
Why use it?
It gives a refactoring or implementation effort a shared design before production code is written.

Skill for Cursor

Written for Cursor: installed under .cursor/.

Good fit Use it to describe the intended layers, boundaries, components, constraints, and types for a new system or a major architectural change.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jacoby6000/smithplates/design-target-architecture
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add Jacoby6000/Smithplates --skill design-target-architecture
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Jacoby6000/Smithplates

Made for: Cursor.

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Per session 73 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,370 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00073 $0.01370
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00685
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00274
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00137

Measured 7d ago against content hash 3d60f5911a39, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

design-target-architecture scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 7d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

.cursor/skills/design-target-architecture/SKILL.md · 147 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 147 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Design Target Architecture

Produce a conceptual architecture — the interfaces, domain models, concrete implementations, and relationships needed to realize a goal — from two inputs:

  1. A high-level conceptual explanation of what the project should do.
  2. A high-level architecture (layers, components, boundaries, constraints).

The output is a Conceptual Architecture Document (CAD): the shared, machine-and-human-readable contract used across this skill family. Read the full schema at .ai-doc-reference/cad-contract.md (repo root) before emitting one. Producing a valid CAD is what lets analyze-codebase-architecture and plan-architecture-refactor consume this output later.

This is a design skill, not an implementation skill. Stay at the level of signatures, responsibilities, and relationships. Do not write method bodies or production logic.

Inputs required (do not guess)

Before designing, confirm you have:

  • Concept: the problem, primary use cases, and core behaviors.
  • Architecture: intended layers/components, boundaries, and any hard constraints (runtime, persistence, external systems, performance).
  • Target language(s): the language for interface signatures.

If any input is missing or ambiguous, ask the user — do not invent requirements or assume "sane" defaults. Missing decisions become entries in the CAD's Open Questions section, not silent assumptions.

Workflow

Copy this checklist and track progress:

- [ ] 1. Confirm inputs; list ambiguities to resolve
- [ ] 2. Extract the domain model (entities, value objects, invariants)
- [ ] 3. Define capabilities as interfaces (responsibility + signatures)
- [ ] 4. Specify implementations and hand-rolled test doubles
- [ ] 5. Map relationships (dependency direction, composition, data flow)
- [ ] 6. Capture open questions, risks, and trade-offs
- [ ] 7. Emit the CAD; offer to save it

1. Confirm inputs

Restate the concept and architecture in your own words in 3-5 bullets so the user can correct misunderstandings early. Surface every ambiguity now. Ask about anything that would otherwise force an assumption.

Read the full file on GitHub · 147 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 7d ago First seen · 147 lines · 73 tokens per session scan A 3d60f5911a39

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design-target-architecture is a skill published in the GitHub repository Jacoby6000/Smithplates (2 stars, last pushed 27d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 73 tokens to every session and 1,370 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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