architecture-foundation

architecture-foundation is a skill for Codex from majiayu000/spellbook. It costs 64 tokens per session (1,875 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planning guide for defining software architecture before implementation. Architecture describes how parts of a system are divided, connected, and responsible for different work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design or refactor runtimes, services, modules, plugins, event loops, rendering systems, schedulers, persistence, or cross-module contracts.
Why use it?
It reduces unclear ownership, tangled dependencies, and one-off changes that do not fit together. It also helps decide whether existing boundaries should be created, completed, or removed.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit Use it to design or refactor runtimes, services, modules, plugins, event loops, rendering systems, schedulers, persistence, or cross-module contracts.

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Install

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Any agent
npx skills add majiayu000/spellbook --skill architecture-foundation
Clone the repo
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Made for: Codex.

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When invoked 1,875 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
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Grade A, and why

architecture-foundation 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 11d ago.

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skills/architecture-foundation/SKILL.md · 190 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 190 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Architecture Foundation

Overview

Use this skill to turn an architecture discussion into explicit boundaries, contracts, validation gates, and a small execution plan. The goal is not to copy an admired project, but to identify the project's shape and choose the minimum architecture that keeps ownership, effects, errors, and tests clear. For large existing repos, first explain the architecture they already have, then decide whether the work is boundary creation, boundary completion, or boundary deletion.

When To Use

  • The user asks "what architecture should this use?", "is this stacked work?", "make a complete spec", "design the runtime", or "compare good libraries".
  • The change touches runtime, state ownership, adapters, plugins, event loops, rendering, schedulers, persistence, or cross-module contracts.
  • A repo has many issues/PRs that look individually valid but may not converge on one architecture.
  • A mature repo has duplicated paths, compatibility shims, generated configs, workflow definitions, or docs that may disagree about the source of truth.
  • A new skill, framework, library, or large feature needs a foundation guide before implementation.

Do not use this for small, local fixes where the existing architecture is obvious and no boundary decision is needed.

Workflow

  1. Search first.
  • Inspect existing architecture docs, entrypoints, manifests, module trees, public APIs, open issues/PRs, and tests before proposing new structure.
  • If the user names a reference project, verify current source or official docs before treating it as evidence.
  • For existing repos, also inspect generated/config artifacts, migration files, background workers, cron jobs, adapters, and the largest files/tests.
  1. Classify the project shape.
  • Simple library: stable API plus internal implementation.
  • CLI or developer tool: command layer, core operations, IO adapters, reporter.
  • API gateway or model router: transport, auth/accounting, routing policy, provider adapters, billing/settlement, observability.
  • Long-running runtime: state root, scheduler, drivers, observability, shutdown.
  • Lifecycle/composition framework: dependency graph, construction phase, runtime hooks, rollback, shutdown, and test harness.
  • Event/cache/reconcile controller: watch/list input, cache/projection, queue/backpressure, worker/reconciler, retry, and drain.
  • Config/module platform: canonical config, adapters, module lifecycle, reload order, rollback, cleanup, and plugin host interfaces.
  • UI or app shell: state ownership, event protocol, renderer/platform boundary, headless tests.
  • Service framework: domain core, application services, transport, storage, middleware, error-to-response boundary.
  • Agent or workflow system: task model, scheduler, provider adapters, event log, replay/test harness.

Read the full file on GitHub · 190 lines

Files

What ships with it

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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. 11d ago First seen · 190 lines · 64 tokens per session scan A 37bdec7d1e5c

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architecture-foundation is a skill published in the GitHub repository majiayu000/spellbook (278 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 64 tokens to every session and 1,875 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-30.

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