PortalJS — Architect

Overview

The advisory entry point for a PortalJS project. Before anything gets scaffolded, this skill works out what to build: given the kind of portal, the shape of the data, and its purpose, it fills six architecture slots (storage, catalog, compute, access, hosting, metadata), resolves two build-time knobs (per-dataset data tier and the portal-wide DATA_QUERY mode), and hands off to the concrete build skills. It decides; it does not build. When the brief is thin it interviews in short rounds and never dead-ends — every question has a sensible default, reachable by replying "use defaults."

Prerequisites

• A rough idea of the portal's purpose and data (exact numbers are not required — the interview supplies defaults for anything missing).
• Optional: local files or a directory of sample data to inspect for size and shape.
• No PortalJS project needs to exist yet; this skill runs before scaffolding.