Locate the canonical implementation, truth source, canonical owner, source evidence, recent architecture change, or parallel/legacy route for an unfamiliar cross-cutting system. Use when normal targeted reading would otherwise fan out across modules. Do not use for a known local file, a single-symbol edit, or non-code work.
Install
npx skillscat add thesoulgiver/live-architecture-context/architecture-context Install via the SkillsCat registry.
SKILL.md
Architecture reflex
Use architecture context only when it will eliminate the next broad source read.
- If this repository has
.archctx/architecture.json, runarchctx status; if its local guidance names another config, use that exact path instead. - When it is
FRESH, make one smallest query:searchto locate a capability;canonicalorevidencefor a known component;traceonly when the declared component relation is the
question;changed-sinceordriftonly with a supplied base revision. - Read only the returned source evidence needed for the task. Source wins over the index.
If the index is missing, stale, invalid, or does not reduce the next read, use ordinary targeted
discovery. Do not refresh merely to answer a read-only question, and never treat Archctx as a gate.