What problem does it solve? Architecture work often drifts into bloated documents or inconsistent decisions across independently built components. This Skill produces a lean architecture spine that fixes only the invariants keeping downstream units consistent, recorded as stable AD-n decisions with a full audit trail. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Architecture Spine Generation: Distills decisions into an ARCHITECTURE-SPINE.md with paradigm, AD-n blocks (Binds/Prevents/Rule), stack pins, and mermaid diagrams, at initiative, feature, or epic altitude. - Coaching or Fast Path: Elicits decisions through open-ended coaching by default, or drafts the full spine with [ASSUMPTION] tags when speed is requested. - Reviewer Gate: Runs a deterministic lint_spine.py pass plus parallel reviewer subagents against a good-spine checklist before handoff, with a Validate intent producing an HTML report. - Use Case: Point it at a spec package or brownfield codebase and ask for the architecture; it resumes prior runs from the memlog, inherits parent spine constraints, and hands off to spec and epic-breakdown workflows. ## Quick Start Ask the assistant to create the architecture for your project using the bmad-architecture skill, providing your spec or codebase path.
