# Architecture Review

> Evaluate expensive-to-reverse choices and optionally record an authorized ADR. Use for architecture, framework, database, or ownership decisions.

- **Type:** Skill
- **Install:** `agentstack add skill-bnet47-codexicon-architecture-review`
- **Verified:** Yes — security-reviewed for prompt injection and unsafe behavior
- **Seller:** [bnet47](https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/bnet47)
- **Installs:** 0
- **Category:** [Databases](https://agentstack.voostack.com/c/databases)
- **Latest version:** 0.1.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Upstream author:** [bnet47](https://github.com/bnet47)
- **Source:** https://github.com/bnet47/codexicon/tree/main/.agents/skills/architecture-review
- **Website:** https://bnet47.github.io/codexicon/repo-template-playbook.html

## Install

```sh
agentstack add skill-bnet47-codexicon-architecture-review
```

Requires the [AgentStack CLI](https://agentstack.voostack.com/docs/cli). Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible agent.

## About

# Architecture review

Announce: "I'm using architecture-review to evaluate this decision and record its consequences."

## 1. Load decision context

Read relevant accepted ADRs, `agent_docs/architecture.md`, project constraints, and the code that establishes the current system. If an ADR already settles the question, surface it and determine whether new evidence justifies superseding it.

## 2. Research only unstable facts

For current libraries, platform capabilities, pricing, limits, or deprecations, use a read-only researcher and primary sources. Do not browse merely to validate general engineering principles.

## 3. Define decision drivers

State the decision, constraints, non-negotiable qualities, and observable signals that would make the choice fail. Evaluate two or three viable options against the drivers most relevant here, normally including:

- product and constraint fit;
- operational complexity and failure isolation;
- security and data ownership;
- reversibility and migration cost;
- delivery and ongoing cost;
- testability, observability, and agent/developer navigability.

Avoid false precision. Use qualitative ratings unless reliable measurements exist.

## 4. Recommend and obtain direction

Lead with the recommended option, its decisive reason, and its largest downside. Ask the user only when the choice changes product behavior, cost, or irreversible commitments beyond the authority already granted.

## 5. Record the ADR only when authorized

If the user asked only for advice, a comparison, or a review, return the recommendation without modifying the repository. Create or update architecture documents only when the user asked to record the decision, asked for implementation that includes the decision, or explicitly delegated repository changes.

Copy `docs/adr-template.md` to the next available `agent_docs/decisions/ADR-NNN-[slug].md`.

- Use `Status: Proposed` when a required human decision is pending.
- Use `Status: Accepted` when the user chose the option or explicitly delegated the decision.
- Link any superseded ADR from the new record; do not rewrite the accepted historical decision.
- Update `agent_docs/architecture.md` when the accepted choice changes system shape.

Do not commit or push the ADR unless the user asks to ship.

## Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

- **Author:** [bnet47](https://github.com/bnet47)
- **Source:** [bnet47/codexicon](https://github.com/bnet47/codexicon)
- **License:** MIT
- **Homepage:** https://bnet47.github.io/codexicon/repo-template-playbook.html

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.

## Pricing

- **Free** — Free

## Security capabilities

Automated source analysis of v0.1.0 — what this tool can access:

- **Network access:** no
- **Filesystem access:** no
- **Shell / process execution:** no
- **Environment & secrets:** no
- **Dynamic code execution:** no

*"Yes" means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it is unsafe.*


## Versions

- **0.1.0** — security scan: passed — Imported from the upstream source.

## Links

- Listing page: https://agentstack.voostack.com/l/skill-bnet47-codexicon-architecture-review
- Seller: https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/bnet47
- Browse the marketplace: https://agentstack.voostack.com/browse

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