Architecture-Zoo Skill

Purpose

This skill turns a medical-imaging research question into a paper-grounded architecture choice — so the build starts from the right archetype (and a known validation setup) rather than from whatever is fashionable, and the choice carries its source citation into the Methods. It is the front end of the model-engineering lane: architecture-zoo (choose) → /model-scaffold (build) → /model-validation (validate).

It is advisory (Layer D): it writes a short decision note, never code or weights. The actual repo is /model-scaffold. It describes archetypes and the task → family → constraint logic, not a live SOTA leaderboard (SOTA churns; the logic does not).

When to use

• You need to pick an architecture/backbone for a classification, segmentation, detection, or transfer-learning question and want it grounded in the literature with a sensible default.