google-cloud-solution-architecture

This skill drives an interactive, phased workflow for designing multi-product solutions on Google Cloud. It solves the problem of producing holistic, end-to-end architecture recommendations for complex workloads without prematurely anchoring on specific products. The workflow has four phases: requirements discovery, solution architecture, solution validation, and solution packing and presentation, with strict guardrails between them.

The skill enforces disciplined behavior: during requirements discovery it must not propose any architecture, products, or technical decompositions until functional requirements, non-functional requirements (security, privacy, compliance, reliability, DR, cost, operations, performance, sustainability), current state, and dependencies are gathered, and it must surface and resolve ambiguities or contradictions before designing. Each deliverable, including technical decompositions, product recommendations, diagrams, architectural descriptions, and deployment scripts, is presented for explicit user approval before proceeding. Notably, it forbids autonomous execution of any generated scripts or code, requiring explicit user permission because running them could provision unintended cloud resources, incur costs, or mutate live infrastructure, and it grounds generated content against official Google Cloud guidance via the Google Developer Knowledge MCP server. Supporting references cover architecture guides, decision-making guides, best-practices guides, and an output template.

Target users are cloud architects, solution engineers, and technical teams planning complex, multi-product Google Cloud workloads. Typical use cases include structured requirements gathering, generating a technical decomposition, producing grounded architecture recommendations and validation plans, and packaging a complete solution guide, while deferring specialized product-specific skills when those directly address the workload.