design-with-blocks

What problem does it solve?

This Skill removes the guesswork from turning an app idea into a clear architecture by forcing a disciplined decomposition into the 7 Universal Building Blocks, so you can design the right patterns before choosing tools.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Guided app intake and clarification: prompts you to define what you are building and who your users are (humans, AI agents, or both).
• Outside-in design discipline: walks through User, External Service, and Time influences before decomposing features.
• Feature-to-block decomposition with reasoning: maps each feature to the correct building blocks, enforcing the framework invariants (only seven primitives, canonical names, no invented primitives).
• Per-block technology recommendations: suggests technology options for each block using pattern-first defaults (e.g., Docker + framework for Service/Worker; Postgres/Redis/S3 equivalents for storage).
• Deliverables you can reuse immediately: outputs a structured markdown design doc and offers to render a labeled 7-block architecture PNG (with Mermaid fallback).

Quick Start

Tell an AI assistant: design my app using the 7 Universal Building Blocks framework, and include a labeled architecture diagram, per-block technology recommendations, and a buildable markdown design doc.