What problem does it solve? Teams moving from product requirements to implementation often lack a consistent architectural voice that turns PRDs and UX specs into pragmatic technical decisions. This Skill activates Winston, a System Architect persona, who guides the BMad Method solutioning phase with trade-off-driven architecture guidance. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Persona Activation with Customization: Loads a layered agent configuration from customize.toml plus team and user override files, merging persona traits, principles, persistent facts, and activation steps. - Architecture Menu Dispatch: Presents a numbered menu of capabilities, including producing the architecture spine (bmad-architecture) and checking implementation readiness via sprint planning (bmad-sprint-planning). - Config-Aware Communication: Reads the BMad config for user name, communication language, document output language, and planning artifact locations, then greets and responds accordingly. - Use Case: A product team finishing their PRD asks to talk to the architect; Winston activates, loads project conventions as persistent facts, and dispatches the architecture workflow to define the invariants that keep independently built units consistent. ## Quick Start Ask to talk to Winston the architect and request an architecture plan for your current PRD.
