Agent skill

Dev Architecture Playbook

by majiayu000 in majiayu000/spellbook

Route full software-development architecture work from product intent through design, implementation, testing, release, and operations.

MITAuto-check passedDevOps & Cloud

Install Dev Architecture Playbook

skills CLI
$ npx skills add majiayu000/spellbook --skill dev-architecture-playbook -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install majiayu000/spellbook dev-architecture-playbook --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/majiayu000/spellbook.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/dev-architecture-playbook .claude/skills/dev-architecture-playbook && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
dev-architecture-playbook
GitHub stars
287
Token cost
~848 tokens
SKILL.md length
325 words
Files
2
Skills in repo
97
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Route full software-development architecture work from product intent through design, implementation, testing, release, and operations.

  • Works in 7 steps: Goal and non-goals. → Domain model and ownership boundaries. → External API, data, and config contracts. → …
  • The user asks for a complete development architecture
  • SKILL.md covers Purpose, Route, Required Gates and Execution Pattern, plus 1 more section
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Dev Architecture Playbook is an agent skill from majiayu000/spellbook. Route full software-development architecture work from product intent through design, implementation, testing, release, and operations. Use when the user asks for a complete development architecture, wants to know which Spellbook skills to combine, needs an execution path across PRD/spec/API/data/security/performance/release/SRE, or asks to turn an idea or repo into a production-ready engineering plan.

Its SKILL.md is about 850 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 2 other files (for example `agents/openai.yaml`).

It sits in DevOps & Cloud, covering Site reliability engineering and PRD writing. The repository describes itself as: Cross-runtime skills for Claude Code, Codex, and multi-agent workflows. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • The user asks for a complete development architecture
  • Wants to know which Spellbook skills to combine
  • Needs an execution path across PRD/spec/API/data/security/performance/release/SRE
  • Asks to turn an idea

Example prompts

  • “/dev-architecture-playbook”

Workflow steps

7 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Goal and non-goals.
  2. Domain model and ownership boundaries.
  3. External API, data, and config contracts.
  4. Security and permission model.
  5. Test strategy with command-level verification.
  6. Release, rollback, and migration gates.
  7. Observability, SLO, and incident response.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit ed52af7. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Dev Architecture Playbook loads about 848 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 108 tokens; SKILL.md has 325 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~108
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~848

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from majiayu000/spellbook at commit ed52af7, republished under its MIT licence (© majiayu000). 325 words, ~848 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/dev-architecture-playbook/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 1 other file; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
dev-architecture-playbook
description
Route full software-development architecture work from product intent through design, implementation, testing, release, and operations. Use when the user asks for a complete development architecture, wants to know which Spellbook skills to combine, needs an execution path across PRD/spec/API/data/security/performance/release/SRE, or asks to turn an idea or repo into a production-ready engineering plan.

Dev Architecture Playbook

Purpose

Use this as the lifecycle router before starting broad product or architecture work. It chooses the minimum useful skill chain, defines gates, and prevents starting implementation before the required contracts exist.

Route

Classify the request first:

RequestPrimary SkillsOutput
Idea, product direction, or market/user problemproduct-discovery, prd-masterProduct brief, user stories, success metrics
Architecture or module boundariesarchitecture-foundation, technical-spec, elegant-architectureArchitecture spec, boundaries, rejected alternatives
API, auth, data, or schema contractapi-design, auth-security, database-patterns, data-contract-migrationsVersioned contracts and migration plan
UI/product surfacefrontend-design, ui-ux-pro-max, ui-design-system, playwright-automationUX flow, component plan, visual checks
Implementation workflowflowguard, threads, systematic-debugging, comprehensive-testingBounded execution, ownership, root-cause debugging, and verification
Quality and regression riskcomprehensive-testing, codebase-audit, vibeguard, project-health-auditorTest matrix and risk list
Release and operationsrelease-engineering, config-secrets-environments, performance-capacity, incident-slo-runbook, observability-sre, devops-excellenceRollout, config, capacity, SLO, runbook

Required Gates

Do not treat the architecture as complete until these gates are explicit:

  1. Goal and non-goals.
  2. Domain model and ownership boundaries.
  3. External API, data, and config contracts.
  4. Security and permission model.
  5. Test strategy with command-level verification.
  6. Release, rollback, and migration gates.
  7. Observability, SLO, and incident response.

If a gate is irrelevant, state why. Do not silently skip data, security, or rollback gates for production systems.

Execution Pattern

Use this sequence for greenfield or major refactors:

  1. Product: write the product brief or PRD.
  2. Architecture: define modules, runtime boundaries, and tradeoffs.
  3. Contracts: define API, data, config, and security contracts.
  4. Plan: split work into independently verifiable steps.
  5. Implement: use one workflow skill per step, not every skill at once.
  6. Verify: run build, typecheck, tests, and focused behavioral checks.
  7. Release: define rollout, migration, rollback, monitoring, and support owner.

For existing repos, start with repo-agent-context-audit or codebase-audit before proposing new structure.

Output Shape

Return a compact plan:

text
goal:
context:
selected_skill_chain:
architecture_gates:
implementation_steps:
verification_commands:
release_and_ops_gates:
open_risks:

Prefer the smallest chain that covers the risk. Too many skills at once usually means the scope needs to be split.

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Files

SKILL.md and 1 other file in skills/dev-architecture-playbook of majiayu000/spellbook.

  • SKILL.md
  • agents/openai.yaml

Open the folder on GitHubat commit ed52af7

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Questions about Dev Architecture Playbook

What does Dev Architecture Playbook do?

Route full software-development architecture work from product intent through design, implementation, testing, release, and operations. Dev Architecture Playbook is an agent skill from majiayu000/spellbook. Route full software-development architecture work from product intent through design, implementation, testing, release, and operations.

When should I use Dev Architecture Playbook?

Dev Architecture Playbook fits situations like: the user asks for a complete development architecture; wants to know which Spellbook skills to combine; needs an execution path across PRD/spec/API/data/security/performance/release/SRE; asks to turn an idea.

How do I install Dev Architecture Playbook in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add majiayu000/spellbook --skill dev-architecture-playbook -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/dev-architecture-playbook in majiayu000/spellbook) into .claude/skills/dev-architecture-playbook in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Dev Architecture Playbook in Codex?

Run `npx skills add majiayu000/spellbook --skill dev-architecture-playbook -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/dev-architecture-playbook in majiayu000/spellbook) into .agents/skills/dev-architecture-playbook in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Dev Architecture Playbook in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add majiayu000/spellbook --skill dev-architecture-playbook -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/dev-architecture-playbook, .gemini/skills/dev-architecture-playbook, .github/skills/dev-architecture-playbook and .opencode/skills/dev-architecture-playbook in your project.

What does Dev Architecture Playbook need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Dev Architecture Playbook is instructions for the agent only.

Does Dev Architecture Playbook access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Dev Architecture Playbook safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Dev Architecture Playbook use?

Dev Architecture Playbook is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Dev Architecture Playbook use?

About 848 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 3.4k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Dev Architecture Playbook?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Dev Architecture Playbook: Expert Team (ReJeCtAll/ExpertTeam-Codex, 113 stars), Prd V08 Monitoring Setup (mattgierhart/PRD-driven-context-engineering, 180 stars), Skill Fusion (mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills, 1.4k stars) and Inference Autopilot (rednote-machine-learning/Inference-autopilot, 144 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Dev Architecture Playbook?

majiayu000 (a GitHub user) maintains it in majiayu000/spellbook, which has 287 GitHub stars. The repository holds 97 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 8, 2026.

Source: majiayu000/spellbook on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.