Prompt·Architecture and hidden complexity·A05
Old design choices that now cost you
Separates old design choices that now cost real time or bugs from ones that are only out of fashion.
Prompt
Look for architectural decisions that were reasonable when this project was smaller but are now liabilities. Distinguish actual problems from stylistic preferences.
- What it returns
- Each decision with the original reason, the current cost (incidents, workarounds, slow paths) and evidence for that cost.
- Skip it when
- Projects younger than a few months.
- Changes
- Changes nothing
- Sessions
- One session
- Tools
- Repository and its git history.
- Also called
- Obsolete architectural assumptions
Skills it uses
improve-codebase-architectureScan a codebase for deepening opportunities, present them as a visual HTML report, then grill through whichever one you pick.engineering-kit·Matt PocockrecommendUse only when Austin explicitly invokes /recommend or $recommend. Turn a real decision into the call first, then the real options, what each costs and risks, why the chosen one wins, and the one thing Austin must decide, all in plain English. Unlike /ceo, which explains without deciding, this skill must pick a path. Ordinary questions, "what do you think", or "what should we do" must not activate it.working-style·Agent Kit
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