Architecture

---
name: architecture
description: Use when the user asks to improve architecture, find refactoring opportunities, surface deepening opportunities, consolidate tightly-coupled modules, or make a codebase more testable and AI-navigable. Surfaces shallow modules and hypothetical seams using a precise vocabulary (Module / Interface / Implementation / Depth / Seam / Adapter / Leverage / Locality from LANGUAGE.md).
license: MIT
metadata:
  user-invocable: "true"
  model: inherit
  derived-from: mattpocock/skills@90ea8ee
  upstream-url: https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/tree/main/improve-codebase-architecture
---

# architecture

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>
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