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,

Software architecture and UI/UX principles for building genuinely new solutions, not derivative work. Use when designing features, architecting software, brainstorming apps, reviewing designs, or during strategy discussions. Focuses on first-principles thinking, simplicity where it matters, and creating rather than commenting.

Systematic architectural thinking for irreplaceable human capabilities - domain modeling, systems thinking, constraint navigation, and AI-aware problem decomposition. Use proactively when detecting architectural decisions, system design discussions, or multi-component planning.

Complete toolkit for senior architect with modern tools and best practices.

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", "stream processing", "ACID transactions", "eventual consistency", or "LSM tree vs B-tree". Also trigger when choosing between SQL and NoSQL, designing data pipelines, or debugging distributed system consistency issues. Covers data models, batch/stream processi

Cloud design patterns for distributed systems architecture covering 42 industry-standard patterns across reliability, performance, messaging, security, and deployment categories. Use when designing, reviewing, or implementing distributed system architectures.

Design scalable distributed systems using structured approaches for load balancing, caching, database scaling, and message queues. Use when the user mentions "system design", "scale this", "high availability", "rate limiter", "design a URL shortener", "system design interview", "capacity planning", or "distributed architecture". Also trigger when estimating infrastructure requirements, choosing between microservices and monoliths, or designing for millions of concurrent users. Covers common syst

Model software around the business domain using bounded contexts, aggregates, and ubiquitous language. Use when the user mentions "domain modeling", "bounded context", "aggregate root", "ubiquitous language", "anti-corruption layer", "context mapping", "domain events", or "strategic design". Also trigger when splitting a monolith into services, defining microservice boundaries, or aligning code structure with business processes. Covers entities vs value objects, domain events, and context mappin

Create layered system architecture diagrams using HTML/CSS templates with color-coded tiers and grid layouts. Best for technology stacks, microservices topology, and multi-tier application design.

In-memory caching in Golang using samber/hot — eviction algorithms (LRU, LFU, TinyLFU, W-TinyLFU, S3FIFO, ARC, TwoQueue, SIEVE, FIFO), TTL, cache loaders, sharding, stale-while-revalidate, missing key caching, and Prometheus metrics. Apply when using or adopting samber/hot, when the codebase imports github.com/samber/hot, or when the project repeatedly loads the same medium-to-low cardinality resources at high frequency and needs to reduce latency or backend pressure.

Create or evaluate an architecture decision record (ADR). Use when choosing between technologies (e.g., Kafka vs SQS), documenting a design decision with trade-offs and consequences, reviewing a system design proposal, or designing a new component from requirements and constraints.

Design systems, services, and architectures. Trigger with "design a system for", "how should we architect", "system design for", "what's the right architecture for", or when the user needs help with API design, data modeling, or service boundaries.