Architecture Design

Position in workflow: v0.5 Technical Stack Selection → v0.6 Architecture Design → v0.6 Technical Specification

Architecture defines how your system components connect. This skill transforms stack selections into a coherent system design with explicit boundaries and integration patterns.

Consumes

This skill requires prior work from v0.3-v0.5:

• TECH-* technology decisions (from v0.5 Technical Stack Selection) — Tech choices become components; Build items become internal services, Buy/Integrate items become external connections
• RISK-* risk entries (from v0.5 Risk Discovery Interview) — High-priority RISK-* entries must have architectural mitigations; drives design decisions on failover, security, scaling
• FEA-* feature entries (from v0.3 Features Value Planning) — Features determine what components must be built; complex features may require distributed patterns
• ARC-* existing architecture decisions (from prior products if brownfield) — Inherited patterns constrain new designs (monolith with microservice, library reuse, auth pattern, etc.)

This skill assumes v0.5 Technical Stack Selection is complete with TECH- entries providing technology foundations.

Produces