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Architecture Selection helps teams pick the best system design by evaluating patterns against team size, domain complexity, scaling needs, and operational maturity. It scores candidates using weighted criteria, documents trade-offs, and provides migration paths—avoiding resume-driven choices and premature optimization. Use it to design new systems, plan migrations, or review existing architectures.

This skill produces structured technical documentation across four types: architectural decision records for design choices, system overviews for onboarding, API references for integrations, and operational runbooks for procedures. It enforces anti-patterns like documentation drift and future fiction while matching detail to audience—from high-level concepts for new developers to procedural steps for operations teams.

Build well-structured database schemas from requirements through deployment. This skill guides you through normalization, relationship design, index optimization, and reversible migrations—covering relational databases like PostgreSQL and MySQL, document stores like MongoDB, and ORMs including Prisma, Drizzle, and TypeORM.

doc-prd generates a Product Requirements Document as Layer 2 of the SDD workflow, converting business requirements into product capabilities, user personas, and measurable success criteria. It structures features and acceptance criteria at the container level, sitting between upstream BRD and downstream EARS artifacts.

Design Brief walks you through a structured conversation to define a new feature or page, then scans your codebase for existing design tokens, components, and patterns. It produces a markdown brief that captures the problem, solution, design principles, aesthetic direction, and component inventory—ensuring your design extends rather than duplicates existing work.

design-md lets you create and validate DESIGN.md files—Google's open spec for encoding design systems as machine-readable tokens plus human-readable rationale. The included CLI lints structure, checks WCAG color contrast, diffs versions for regressions, and exports to Tailwind or W3C DTCG JSON formats.