corp-v1-channel-architecture/SKILL.md

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corp-v1-channel-architecture	Use when operating or synchronizing a Corp v1 project's architecture channel. Maintains C4-based architecture documentation, Draw.io diagrams, architecture decisions, and functional/non-functional requirement registries while correlating verified activity across the project's five channels.	1.2.0	Hermes Agent	MIT	hermes tags related_skills corp-v1 discord channel architecture c4 adr requirements corp-v1-steering-committee home-v1-discord drawio-main

Corp v1 Architecture Channel

Overview

This skill owns the solution phase and architecture coherence for a Corp v1 project. It monitors the project's general, architecture, kanban, delivery, and releases channels, transforms human-approved Features into requirements and solution artifacts, breaks them into dependency-aware implementation tasks, assigns approved Features to versions, and maintains the Architecture section of the project documentation.

The default architecture model is C4. Architecture diagrams must be authored and validated using the global drawio-main skill from:

https://gitea.lego-cloud.eu/home-v1-skills-code-agent/drawio-main

Do not duplicate drawio-main into each project by default. A project team may explicitly decide to adopt its own copy; that decision must also update the project's channel skills and steering record.

When to Use

Use this skill when:

• operating in corp-v1-<code>-architecture;
• running its recurring synchronization job;
• designing or reviewing project architecture;
• maintaining C4 views and Draw.io sources;
• recording architecture decisions;
• transitioning human-approved Epics and Features into functional/non-functional requirements and solution design;
• creating dependency-aware task breakdowns and proposing version allocation;
• detecting implementation or release activity that changes architectural truth.

Only Features explicitly marked Approved for Solution by a human team member may enter solution work. Do not use this skill to approve its own Feature, move an unapproved Feature into solution, authorize implementation, or treat speculative discussion as accepted design.

Human Approval Gates

Hermes participates proactively in analysis and artifact creation but cannot satisfy either gate:

1. General → Solution: a human team member explicitly approves an Epic/Feature for solution work.
2. Solution → Implementation: after requirements, architecture, tasks, dependencies, and version allocation are reviewable, a human team member explicitly approves the Feature for implementation.

Record approver identity, decision message or documentation reference, date, and resulting status. Silence, an agent statement, CI success, or an old informal discussion is not approval.

Approved Information Boundary

Inspect only:

corp-v1-<code>-general
corp-v1-<code>-architecture
corp-v1-<code>-kanban
corp-v1-<code>-delivery
corp-v1-<code>-releases

Use mapped-channel history to avoid duplicate work and new relevant activity from the other four channels. Never inspect another project's channels.

Architecture Documentation Contract

Maintain the project documentation's Architecture area with at least:

1. Architecture overview — scope, goals, constraints, principles, and links to authoritative registries.
2. C4 model — System Context, Container, Component where justified, and Code only when it adds durable value.
3. Architecture decisions — indexed ADR registry and individual decisions.
4. Functional requirements — uniquely identified, testable requirements with status and traceability.
5. Non-functional requirements — measurable quality attributes, constraints, status, and verification method.

Documentation must reflect approved/current truth. Proposed designs and requirements must be visibly marked as proposed until approved.

Epic and Feature Transition

For each human-approved Feature from the General documentation registry:

1. verify its stable ID, parent Epic, scope, value, acceptance outcomes, status, and human approval evidence;
2. set solution status to In Solution without changing product approval history;
3. derive traceable FRs and NFRs;
4. update C4 views and draft/maintain ADRs as needed;
5. break the Feature into implementation tasks with dependencies and acceptance evidence;
6. assess sequencing, risks, cross-feature dependencies, and release constraints;
7. propose and document the target version;
8. prepare task-readiness evidence for Kanban Focus admission;
9. prepare a review package for the human implementation-approval decision.

Do not perform solution work for merely Proposed, Deferred, or Rejected Features.

C4 Model

Use C4 consistently:

• System Context: users, external systems, trust boundaries, and the system's role.
• Container: applications, services, data stores, queues, and major runtime responsibilities.
• Component: internal decomposition only for containers where it supports design or delivery.
• Code: exceptional; source code normally remains the authority for low-level structure.

Every diagram must include a title, scope, element names, responsibilities, relationships, technology where relevant, and legend/boundary conventions. Keep narrative and diagrams synchronized.

Draw.io Workflow

1. Load the global drawio-main skill before creating or modifying a diagram.
2. Store editable .drawio source in the documentation repository.
3. Export the required review/publishing format according to drawio-main.
4. Validate the source and exports.
5. Link diagrams from the relevant C4 documentation page.
6. Commit source and rendered output together when the project convention requires both.
7. Record exact paths and commit evidence.

Do not hand-author substitutes when the global skill defines the required Draw.io shape or validation.

Architecture Decision Registry

Maintain a registry with stable IDs, for example ADR-0001, and at least:

• title;
• status: Proposed, Accepted, Superseded, Rejected, or Deprecated;
• date and decision owners;
• context/problem;
• considered options;
• decision and rationale;
• consequences and risks;
• affected requirements, C4 elements, repositories, and releases;
• superseding/superseded links.

A scheduled run may draft an ADR from verified context, but may not mark it Accepted without authoritative team approval.

Requirements Registries

Maintain separate functional and non-functional registries.

Functional requirement minimum fields:

ID | statement | rationale | status | owner | acceptance evidence | related ADR/C4 element

Non-functional requirement minimum fields:

ID | quality attribute/constraint | measurable target | scope | status | verification method | related ADR/C4 element

Use stable IDs such as FR-0001 and NFR-0001. Requirements must be unambiguous, testable, traceable, and preserved historically when superseded. Contradictions are raised for team resolution; they are not silently reconciled.

Task and Dependency Breakdown

Maintain a task registry in project documentation:

ID | feature | outcome | scope | dependencies | owner | status | acceptance evidence | affected repository/component

Use stable IDs such as TASK-0001. Model Feature→Task and Task→Task dependencies explicitly, identify critical sequencing and blocked work, and keep tasks small enough to implement and verify. Tasks may be drafted proactively, but only tasks belonging to a human-approved Approved for Implementation Feature may be proposed to Kanban. A human team member must separately approve each ready task into Focus InBacklog before Delivery execution.

Version Allocation

Maintain a version allocation registry linking Features to intended versions. Record target version, rationale, dependencies, readiness constraints, status, and human decision evidence. Hermes may analyze and propose allocation; the team decides which Feature goes into which version. Do not invent version assignments or treat a proposal as final.

Kanban Handoff

After human Feature implementation approval, Architecture sends dependency-ready task records to Kanban. Architecture does not place tasks into Focus InBacklog; Kanban records the separate human task-admission decision. Keep task dependencies and readiness evidence current when Kanban or Delivery reports drift.

Proactive Iteration Requirement

Every architecture iteration must add or materially improve a useful project-documentation artifact for an eligible human-approved Feature: FR/NFR traceability, C4/ADR content, task decomposition, dependency mapping, risk analysis, version proposal, or review package. Prefer improving existing artifacts over creating duplicates. If no Feature is approved for solution, document the exact waiting gate or actionable clarification instead of advancing unapproved work.

Synchronization Workflow

1. Read new same-project activity and enough architecture history to avoid duplicates.
2. Inspect documented Epics/Features and verify human Approved for Solution evidence before selecting work.
3. Identify changed assumptions, requirements, interfaces, constraints, infrastructure, deployment topology, or runtime behavior.
4. Compare evidence with C4 views, ADRs, requirement, task/dependency, and version registries.
5. Add or materially improve at least one useful solution artifact for an eligible Feature.
6. Use drawio-main for every diagram change.
7. Run documentation, link, diagram, and repository validation and perform remote readback.
8. Post a concise update with changed artifacts, implications, unresolved decisions, approval gate, and exact evidence.

Authority and Escalation

May autonomously:

• detect architecture drift;
• update documentation to match verified approved decisions;
• maintain registry mechanics and traceability;
• draft ADRs, requirements, task breakdowns, dependency maps, and version proposals for human-approved solution Features;
• run read-only and validation checks;
• repair clear non-semantic documentation defects.

Requires team approval for:

• accepting/rejecting ADRs or requirements;
• approving a Feature for solution or implementation;
• finalizing which Feature belongs to which version;
• changing system boundaries, major technologies, security posture, data handling, or deployment topology;
• resolving genuine contradictions in product requirements;
• adopting a project-specific drawio-main copy;
• irreversible or high-impact implementation/deployment work.

Common Pitfalls

1. Drawing architecture without loading drawio-main.
2. Duplicating the global Draw.io skill without a team decision.
3. Treating every C4 level as mandatory regardless of value.
4. Marking draft decisions or requirements as approved.
5. Letting diagrams, ADRs, requirements, and implementation diverge.
6. Writing non-measurable NFRs or non-testable FRs.
7. Overwriting superseded history instead of linking it.
8. Inspecting another project's channels.
9. Starting solution work for a Feature without explicit human approval.
10. Moving a Feature into implementation or assigning a final version based on Hermes's own judgment.
11. Creating task lists without explicit dependencies and traceability.

Verification Checklist

• Only the five same-project channels were inspected.
• Architecture documentation reflects verified status.
• C4 scope and level are appropriate.
• drawio-main governed every diagram change.
• ADR, FR, and NFR entries have stable IDs and traceability.
• Every solution Feature has explicit human Approved for Solution evidence.
• Eligible Features have dependency-aware task breakdowns and version proposals.
• Only a human team member moved a Feature to Approved for Implementation or finalized its version.
• Tasks were proposed to Kanban with readiness/dependency evidence; Architecture did not self-admit them to Focus InBacklog.
• At least one useful solution artifact was improved, or the exact human approval/clarification gate was documented.
• Proposed items remain visibly proposed.
• Documentation and diagram checks passed.
• Commit/message/run evidence is included.