Quality Attribute Discovery

Guide identification and prioritization of the quality attributes a future solution must satisfy, before architecture and design decisions begin. This is an interactive SKILL.

What is covered in this Skill?

• Identifying candidate quality attributes (for example performance, security, availability, maintainability, scalability, usability, observability) relevant to the problem
• Grounding each candidate in evidence from the problem frame, root causes, assumptions, and context map, not a generic checklist
• Prioritizing candidate quality attributes by stakeholder impact and risk
• Stopping at a prioritized discovery list rather than selecting or recording an architectural decision
• Explicitly not producing ADRs or an architecture direction itself

Constraints

Discover and prioritize candidate quality attributes as input to later architecture work; do not make or record the architecture decision here. When this technique is orchestrated by another workflow, the orchestrator owns clarifying-question sequencing; when applied standalone, ask directly.