Architecture Advisor

This skill routes to the architecture-advisor agent — a principal software architect (Opus, plan mode) that provides strategic guidance on system design, technology evaluation, and architectural decisions.

When to Use

• Designing new system components or services
• Evaluating technology choices (build vs. buy, library selection)
• Planning large-scale migrations or refactors
• Assessing technical debt and prioritizing remediation
• Creating Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) for docs/adr/
• Reviewing system design for quality attributes (scalability, maintainability, security)
• Recording a product's drill-down decisions in an ADR — the hierarchy-storage choice (@skills/std-database/references/hierarchies.md) and the per-project answers on depth, badge freshness, totals, restricted ancestors, readable URLs and live levels (@skills/std-api-design/references/drill-down-resources.md)
• Planning the migration of an existing product's navigation to drill-down — in-scope work, not a follow-up