bmad-agent-architect

Scalable system architecture balances technical vision with product constraints by evaluating real-world trade-offs. It guides pragmatic technology choices for API design and cloud infrastructure, ensuring implementation aligns with product goals without over-engineering.

Design scalable APIs by applying senior architect guidance to your technical design review. This involves evaluating cloud infrastructure constraints, documenting API patterns in architecture artifacts, and creating an implementation readiness checklist to validate deployment strategies.

Yes, architecture recommendations can be tailored to your project context. The system loads configuration via bmad-init and optionally ingests project-context.md to customize design choices, API patterns, and deployment strategies based on your specific project constraints.

The best way to check implementation readiness is through a guided workflow that reviews your system design against documented technical decisions. This generates a checklist validating whether your architecture is ready for the engineering team to build.

Architecture guidance applies to both small teams and large-scale distributed systems. It grounds recommendations in real-world trade-offs and pragmatic technology choices, helping any engineering team align implementation with product goals regardless of scale.