/architect-quick

description: Fast-track blueprint — three questions, smart defaults for everything else, still validator-gated. For when you just want it built. / Blueprint express — tres preguntas, defaults inteligentes, con el mismo validador.
argument-hint: "[one-line project description]"
allowed-tools:
  - Read
  - Write
  - Edit
  - Glob
  - Grep
  - Bash
  - WebFetch
  - WebSearch
  - Task
  - Skill
  - AskUserQuestion

`/architect-quick` — fast-track

You are being invoked as `/architect-quick`. Same machinery as `/architect`, compressed interview. Read the skill first — it is still the source of truth:

• Plugin install: `${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/architect/SKILL.md`
• Clone install: `./CLAUDE.md` at the repo root — the clone-mode mirror of the skill. Same rules,

same state machine, repo-relative paths, and the subagent work done inline.

Mode

| Setting | Value | |---|---| | Entry | Greenfield | | Depth | 3 questions, one message, then defaults | | Output | **Recommend single file** — quick mode implies a small build — and confirm it, because `${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/questions/phase-4-generate.md` **Step 2 is authoritative on emission mode**. This row is input to your recommendation, not the decision. Fold the confirmation into the architecture card in Flow step 3 so it costs no extra round. Confirmed single file → `./blueprints/<project-slug>-blueprint.md` in the user's cwd; bundle → `./blueprints/<project-slug>/`. | | Gate | `blueprint-validator` must return **PASS** — speed does not buy an exemption |

The three questions — ask all three in ONE message

1. **What is it?** One or two sentences. 2. **Who uses it?** Public users, an internal team, other developers — and roughly how many. 3. **Any tech you must use or must avoid?** Existing stack, hosting constraint, language. "No preference" is a valid answer and the fastest one.

If `$ARGUMENTS` already answers Q1, say so and ask only Q2 and Q3. Do not re-ask what you were told.

Then stop asking. Everything else is a default you choose and **state out loud**.

Defaults — decide, announce, do not ask

| Decision | Default | |---|---| | Shape | Classify from the three answers using `${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/questions/phase-1-discovery.md`. Ambiguous → pick the closer one and say which and why. | | Runtime track | The shape file's **Default runtime track**. Deviate only if Q3 forces it. | | Capabilities | The shape file's **Core capabilities** table, nothing extra. | | Pins | From the `stack-researcher` report produced in this session — it is authoritative. `${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/knowledge/runtime-tracks/<track>.md` is the fallback for any package the researcher did not resolve, and its unverified caveats carry through verbatim. Never write a pin from memory. | | Stage | MVP. Testing is smoke-level, observability is logs plus error tracking. | | Scope | The shape's build order, trimmed to what ships something usable. |

Flow

1. Ask the three questions. Wait. 2. Classify the shape. Read `${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/knowledge/shapes/<shape>.md` and its default runtime track. Check `${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/knowledge/stack-compatibility.md` for known-bad pairs. 3. Print a **6-line architecture card** — shape, track, data store, auth, hosting, scope — and one line naming the recommended output mode (single file). Ask for a single yes. This is Phase 3 compressed, not skipped: the user still signs off before you write, and that same yes is the Step 2 emission-mode confirmation `phase-4-generate.md` requires. If they ask for a bundle instead, take it and move on. 4. Dispatch `stack-researcher` to verify pins. 5. Dispatch `blueprint-writer` to emit the blueprint from `${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/templates/blueprint-template.md`, `${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/templates/claude-md-template.md`, `${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/templates/tasks-schema.md`, and `${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/templates/epic-template.md`. Tell it the output mode explicitly — the one the user confirmed in step 3, not the one you recommended. In single-file mode the workspace files (`CLAUDE.md`, `AGENTS.md`, `.claude/`) are fenced code blocks inside Section 19, not real files, and there is no `tasks.json` and no `epics/`. **`.claude/commands/` is never emitted in either mode.** 6. Dispatch `blueprint-validator`. FAIL → fix and re-run. Do not narrate the failure as a caveat and hand it over anyway.

Rules

1. **Never more than one round of questions.** If something is genuinely undecidable from three answers, pick the reversible option and record it in §20.3 Decision log with its `Would reverse if` trigger. The blueprint has no Open Questions section by design — an unresolved marker left in the deliverable is a validator BLOCKER. 2. **Every build step still gets an observable "Done when"** and a verify command. This is the part people try to cut for speed. It is the part that makes the build survive. 3. **State every default you applied** in the summary, so the user knows what they got by omission. 4. Detect and use the user's language.

After completion

Print the output path and the applied-defaults list. Bundle → the task count and: run `/architect-next` from the target project root to start. Single file → say resume is manual and hand over the path. If any default is wrong, `/architect` does the full interview instead.