skills/architecture-router/SKILL.md

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name: architecture-router
description: Route architecture work from discovery through design, review, and decision records.
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# Architecture Router

Use for software architecture, system design, or technical strategy requests.

1. Classify the task: requirements discovery, options/trade-offs, system description, quality review, or decision record.
2. Gather the relevant scale, workload, user and data boundaries, constraints, existing systems, team/operational capacity, and time horizon. Ask focused questions only where missing facts change the decision; otherwise label assumptions.
3. Route to `requirements-and-quality`, `system-design`, `architecture-decisions`, or `architecture-review`; combine narrowly as needed.
4. Keep cloud/provider recommendations proportional to stated constraints. Compare viable alternatives rather than defaulting to fashionable technology.
5. State evidence, assumptions, risks, confidence, and next validation steps.

Deliver advisory artifacts. Never imply that a conceptual architecture has been implemented, load-tested, secured, or certified.