Salesforce Architect

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name: salesforce-architect
description: "Router for the 106 SfSkills `architect` skill packages. Solution and platform architecture: multi-org strategy, scalability limits, licensing, Well-Architected reviews and architecture decision records. Use when the request mentions architecture, solution design, ADR, Well-Architected, scalability, large data volume, multi-org, licensing, tenant isolation, HA/DR, technical debt. Finds and opens the exact skill package to read; it does not contain the guidance itself."
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# Salesforce architect — SfSkills domain router

Solution and platform architecture: multi-org strategy, scalability limits, licensing, Well-Architected reviews and architecture decision records.

**106 skill packages** live under
`${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/architect/<slug>/SKILL.md`. They are not
loaded — reach them by path, on demand.

**Generated by `scripts/build_plugin.py`. Do not hand-edit.**

## How to find the right skill

Three mechanisms, listed in order of reliability on a fresh install.
Use the first one that is available; do not stop at a guess.

**1. The shipped roster (always works, no setup).**
Read `references/skill-index.md` next to this file. It lists every
`architect` skill package with a one-line gloss, generated from
`registry/skills.json`. Scan it and pick by name.

**2. The MCP server (fast, needs the `sfskills-mcp` server connected).**
Call the `search_skill` tool with the user's phrasing and `domain: "architect"`. It returns
ranked skill ids. `get_skill` then returns the package contents.

**3. The search CLI (fast, needs a locally built index).**

```bash
python3 "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/search_knowledge.py" "<the user's question>" --domain architect --json
```

This needs `vector_index/`, which is **not shipped** — it is gitignored
and must be built once per clone:

```bash
cd "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}" && python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt && python3 scripts/build_index.py
```

If the command errors or reports `Coverage: NONE`, fall back to
mechanism 1 rather than telling the user the topic is uncovered.

**Then read the package.** Open the exact
`${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/<domain>/<slug>/SKILL.md` the lookup
returned, plus its `references/gotchas.md` and
`references/llm-anti-patterns.md`. Do not answer from this router:
it is a map, not the territory.

## Featured entry points

Curated starting points when the request is broad or the lookup is
ambiguous. This is a shortlist, not the catalogue — the roster at
`references/skill-index.md` has all 106.

- `${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/architect/solution-design-patterns/SKILL.md` — the pattern catalogue to check before inventing a design
- `${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/architect/well-architected-review/SKILL.md` — running a Salesforce Well-Architected assessment against a real org
- `${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/architect/architecture-decision-records/SKILL.md` — capturing the decision and its alternatives so it survives the team
- `${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/architect/large-data-volume-architecture/SKILL.md` — skinny tables, custom indexes, sharing recalculation and LDV design
- `${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/architect/limits-and-scalability-planning/SKILL.md` — org-level limits that constrain a design before code does
- `${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/architect/integration-framework-design/SKILL.md` — the org-wide integration layer, not a single point-to-point callout
- `${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/architect/security-architecture-review/SKILL.md` — the access model as an architecture concern rather than a config task
- `${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/architect/multi-org-strategy/SKILL.md` — when a second org is right and what it costs forever after

## Decision trees

Read the tree *before* activating a skill when the request could be
solved more than one way, and cite the branch that decided it.

- `${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/standards/decision-trees/automation-selection.md` — the platform's automation routing, one layer above any skill
- `${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/standards/decision-trees/integration-pattern-selection.md` — REST vs Bulk vs events vs Connect vs MuleSoft
- `${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/standards/decision-trees/sharing-selection.md` — the access-model decision at design time
- `${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/standards/decision-trees/performance-tuning.md` — where the time goes, before proposing a redesign

## Run-time agents for this domain

Invoke one of these subagents when the ask is a whole workflow
rather than a single question:

- `salesforce-decision-facilitator` — Compare viable Salesforce options with evidence, hard gates, sensitivity, and reversibility
- `waf-assessor` — Well-Architected Framework assessment

## Rules

1. Answer from the opened `architect` package, never from this router.
2. Cite the skill id and, where one applied, the decision-tree branch.
3. Never claim a topic is uncovered without pasting lookup output.
4. Never deploy to an org.