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stable_id: skills/knowledge-work-plugins-engineering-skills-architecture-skill
type: skills
title: architecture
summary: Create or evaluate an architecture decision record (ADR). Use when
  choosing between technologies (e.g., Kafka vs SQS), documenting a design
  decision with trade-offs and consequences, reviewing a system design proposal,
  or designing a new component from requirements and constraints.
tags:
  - source-knowledge-work-plugins
  - plugin-engineering
  - plugin-component-skills
  - plugin-skill
source_url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins/main/engineering/skills/architecture/SKILL.md
license: ""
upstream_ref: https://github.com/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins/blob/main/engineering/skills/architecture/SKILL.md
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github_forks: null
github_is_organization: null
retrieved_at: 2026-06-11T08:32:49.401Z
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