# Architecture > [Architecture] Use when a workflow step or the user asks for architecture design, compliance revi… [Architecture] Use when a workflow step or the user asks for architecture design, compliance review, scalability grading or whole-project audit via --mode={design|review|scalability|full}. - Page: https://ss33.ai/skills/duc01226/architecture-16085238928 - Publisher: duc01226 - Category: [Software Development](https://ss33.ai/skills/category/software-development-t44z8z) › [Misc](https://ss33.ai/skills/category/software-development-t44z8z/misc-0pfo0b) - License: MIT - Source: https://github.com/duc01226/easyplatform/blob/ed26f0b60f4ac2da864abc4c4eb5ca8c068aa5a8/.claude/skills/architecture/SKILL.md ## Skill SKILL.md: https://ss33.ai/api/v1/ss33/download/duc01226/architecture-16085238928 ## Quick Summary > **Review modes:** For review/audit work, standalone defaults to `--review-only` (`--report-only` alias); `--fix-loop` enables review → validate → authorized fix → fresh re-review, default cap 3. `--fix-loop --loop-owner=caller` returns a read-only pass to the caller that owns fixes/re-review. Create triage, review, validation and re-review todo tasks first; apply the carried `review-policy` contract for LOW deferral and user-approved bounded extensions. Non-review modes and terminal findings validation keep their own dispatch. **Goal:** Run the selected architecture contract to design a solution, review compliance, grade scalability, or deliver a whole-project health report with evidence-backed decisions. **Summary:** Select the explicit `--mode` → read its complete reference → execute its own phases, evidence gates, flags and outputs → validate and hand off. No mode prints the table and stops, without questions or work. `full` composes read-only reviewer faces; other modes run independently. **Workflow:** Dispatch → load the selected contract → triage targets and plan review tasks → execute the mode → validate → hand off. **Key Rules:** - Detect `--mode` before any work; load only the selected reference in full. - Preserve each mode's scope, authority, scores, gates, report paths and round caps. - For capacity/cache decisions, apply the selected mode's measured-capacity protocol: workload evidence and business availability needs govern the next step. ## Mode Dispatch Read the named reference in full when its explicit mode is selected. No mode: show this table and stop; ask nothing, run nothing, never infer a default. | Mode | Purpose and owned contract | Read in full FIRST | | --- | --- | --- | | _(none)_ | Show this table; ask nothing; run nothing | — | | `--mode=design [brief]` | Solution architecture across backend, frontend, data, integration and deployment; ≥3 researched options per concern, ADRs, scaffold/harness handoff and Step-12 user-validation interview | [references/mode-design.md](references/mode-design.md) | | `--mode=review [scope] [--report-only]` | Change compliance: 13 serial categories, PASS/WARN/BLOCKED report, Phase-5 validation and bounded review rounds. `--report-only` returns a read-only leaf report to the caller that owns fixes | [references/mode-review.md](references/mode-review.md) | | `--mode=scalability [init\|audit] [scope]` | Project or planned-architecture grade: ten-area `/20` scorecard, G1-G7, non-scoring TVC and advisory matrices | [references/mode-scalability.md](references/mode-scalability.md) | | `--mode=full [scope] [--defer=validate]` | Whole-project architecture, scalability and production-readiness audit: INLINE orchestrator, three parallel read-only faces, dedup and one consolidated report/verdict. `--defer=validate` leaves findings validation to the caller's next report-level `/why-review` gate | [references/mode-full.md](references/mode-full.md) | - `init` / `audit` (also `mode=init` / `mode=audit`) are scalability run types, separate from `--mode=scalability`. Read [references/scorecard.md](references/scorecard.md) when scoring that mode. - Only `full` composes modes: its children read and run the `scalability` and `review` references plus the separate `production-readiness-review` skill. Never copy or re-implement a face. **MUST ATTENTION** Decide supported review choices and recommendations, record the rationale, and finish without routine user questions. Keep round-limit extension, indispensable facts and actual action authority; preserve source coverage, validation, tests, read-only boundaries and budgets. Review decisions do not accept open risks or make a failed gate pass. ## Closing Reminders **IMPORTANT MUST ATTENTION Goal:** Run the selected architecture contract to design a solution, review compliance, grade scalability, or deliver a whole-project health report with evidence-backed decisions. **MUST ATTENTION Main steps:** dispatch explicit mode → read its complete contract → triage targets and plan review tasks → execute the mode's phases → validate → hand off. - No mode prints the table and stops: no question, inferred mode or audit. - Load only the selected reference; retain its flags, gates, report paths, score semantics, authority and round caps. - `full` runs INLINE and composes read-only sub-agent faces; each face loads its own contract. - Capacity decisions follow workload → safe measured-work reduction → capacity/recovery proof, within the selected mode's contract. **Anti-Rationalization:** | Evasion | Required action | | --- | --- | | “Architecture means full audit” | Require an explicit mode; otherwise show help and stop. | | “The summary is enough” | Read the selected reference in full before execution. | | “Reuse another mode's procedure” | Follow this mode's contract; only `full` composes faces. | > **Protocol guides** — Apply each protocol only when its read-when condition holds. If a protocol's text is not in your context, read its file below before you act on it. - `review-decision-autonomy` — Choose supported review decisions and ask before extending the round budget; running any review or audit skill or mode → .claude/skills/shared/protocols/review-decision-autonomy.md - `review-policy` — Review-only or a three-round fix loop with explicit extension and fresh post-fix evidence; deciding round eligibility, blocking findings or review state → .claude/skills/shared/protocols/review-policy.md **MUST ATTENTION** Triage all targets, plan and create review/validation/fix/fresh re-review tasks first. Review-only reports without edits; fix-loop freshly reviews every repair under one fixing owner. Default cap three rounds: disclose deferred LOWs, ask and wait before a bounded extension for MEDIUM+ or failed required checks. Preserve scope, coverage and actual operation authority.