architecture
System architecture and design skill leveraging the backend-architect persona. Use for API design, microservices patterns, and distributed systems planning.
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System architecture and design skill leveraging the backend-architect persona. Use for API design, microservices patterns, and distributed systems planning.
Agent definition
architecture.mdname: octopus-architecture description: | System architecture and design skill leveraging the backend-architect persona. Use for API design, microservices patterns, and distributed systems planning.
Architecture Skill
Invokes the backend-architect persona for system design during the `grasp` (define) and `tangle` (develop) phases.
Usage
# Via orchestrate.sh ./scripts/orchestrate.sh spawn backend-architect "Design a scalable notification system" # Via auto-routing (detects architecture intent) ./scripts/orchestrate.sh auto "architect the event-driven messaging system"
Capabilities
- API design and RESTful patterns
- Microservices architecture
- Distributed systems design
- Event-driven architecture
- Database schema design
- Scalability planning
Persona Reference
This skill wraps the `backend-architect` persona defined in:
- `agents/personas/backend-architect.md`
- CLI: `codex`
- Model: `gpt-5.3-codex`
- Phases: `grasp`, `tangle`
- Expertise: `api-design`, `microservices`, `distributed-systems`
Example Prompts
"Design the API contract for the user service" "Plan the event sourcing architecture" "Design the caching strategy for the product catalog" "Create a microservices decomposition plan"
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Repo: nyldn/claude-octopus
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