Architecture Compass

Architecture Compass is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by techygarg in lattice.

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Install in seconds

Install Architecture Compass

Copy Architecture Compass into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/techygarg/lattice/tree/main/skills/architecture-compass ~/.claude/skills/architecture-compass

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/techygarg/lattice.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: skills/architecture-compass/SKILL.md in techygarg/lattice
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/architecture-compass
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 3278 skills

What Architecture Compass does

Architecture Compass scans a repository, interviews the user about unclear parts, and drafts a shareable architectural assessment. Use it to understand the current structure, drift, and recommended direction for one codebase, module, or folder.

Architecture Compass is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Architecture Compass comes from a repository tagged agent, agent-framework, agent-skills, agentic and agentic-ai.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Architecture Compass

Required Skills

Read, apply:

framework:knowledge-priming -- Load codebase context: language, framework, structure, conventions (always)
framework:architecture -- Architectural audit lens and recommended direction guardrails (always)
framework:domain-driven-design -- Strategic DDD only: bounded contexts, domain seams (conditional: only when domain complexity warrants it)
framework:collaborative-judgment -- Surface judgment calls during co-design rounds (always)

Workflow

Step 1: Load Existing Context

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Commands Architecture Compass provides

Slash commands named in this skill’s SKILL.md, listed in the order they first appear.

/design-blueprint
/refactor-safely
/code-forge

Frequently asked about Architecture Compass

What else does techygarg publish alongside Architecture Compass?
Architecture Compass is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from techygarg/lattice, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Architecture, Architecture Refiner and Bug Fix. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Architecture Compass does, and is maintained by techygarg in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the techygarg/lattice page.
How does Architecture Compass compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Architecture Compass ranks #3003 by stars among the 3278 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Architecture Compass against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.