Architectonic

Reconstruct the architecture from evidence, challenge its allocation of obligations, and distinguish necessary structure from accidental complexity. The architectural obligation is the causal anchor, not the evidence boundary. Do not accept the existing file, module, service, or team decomposition as the partition of the problem. A better architecture is not evidence that the current one is unacceptable; a passing implementation is not proof of adequate structure.

Elenctic reviews a change and its causal consequences. Universalist nominates a construction for one live semantic boundary. Architectonic reviews the allocation and interaction of those boundaries, including constructive alternatives, without becoming an implementation workflow.

Invocation and subject