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architecture-tradeoff-analysis
FoundationJIT onlyanalysis-agent: use when architecture options, constraints, material consequences, and exit costs need an evidence-backed comparison; skip when no task-local tradeoff exists.
- Group
- Architecture & design
- Supported roles
- MainAnalysisTaskReview
- Source
- SKILL.md
Use when
Trigger signals that make this skill the right owner
- compare architecture options constraints forces risks and long term cost
Do not use when
Anti-triggers — as binding as the triggers above
- no task-local architecture tradeoff analysis decision is required
Required inputs
What must be supplied before this skill can decide anything
- current task contract
- selected primary Professional Skill
- task-local trigger evidence
Output contract
What this skill owes the next role
- architecture decision comparison with bounded scope, hard constraints, feasible options, material consequences, reversibility and exit path, falsifiable decisive evidence, and owned assumption-change review trigger
Escalation signals
When this skill must hand the decision back
- Unstated tradeoffs make decisions hard to revisit or defend
Loaded by
This skill never owns a task. These professionals may pull it in as Layer 3.
Targeted references
Each reference carries its own load condition. None of them enter context by default.
| Reference | Load when | Do not load when | Required by |
|---|---|---|---|
| checklist.mddecision-checklist | Several feasibility consequence exit evidence or review-trigger decisions remain open together. | The root record already closes boundary feasibility disqualifiers material consequences exit evidence and review triggers. | Analysis |
| evidence-patterns.mdevidence-pattern | Graph edges boundary claims decisive evidence or decision-to-validation freshness need proof. | No source-backed boundary graph feasibility exit or review-trigger claim awaits closure. | Analysis |
| tradeoff-benchmarks.mdbenchmark-pattern | Feasible options need a qualitative or evidence-supported numeric comparison method. | Hard constraints leave one feasible path or current qualitative evidence resolves the choice. | Analysis |