Architecture Review

by decebals

Architecture Review is a Quality skill for Claude Code, published by decebals in claude-code-java.

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Install Architecture Review

Copy Architecture Review 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/decebals/claude-code-java/tree/main/.claude/skills/architecture-review ~/.claude/skills/architecture-review

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/decebals/claude-code-java.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: .claude/skills/architecture-review/SKILL.md in decebals/claude-code-java
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/architecture-review
Collection: One of 18 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Quality — 1354 skills

What Architecture Review does

Architecture Review analyzes Java project structure at the macro level, including packages, modules, layers, and dependency direction. Use it to check organization, boundary violations, and clean or hexagonal architecture compliance.

Architecture Review is cataloged under Quality on DirSkills. Architecture Review comes from a repository tagged ai-assisted-development, claude-code, claude-code-skills, developer-tools and java.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Architecture Review Skill

Analyze project structure at the macro level - packages, modules, layers, and boundaries.

When to Use

User asks "review the architecture" / "check project structure"
Evaluating package organization
Checking dependency direction between layers
Identifying architectural violations
Assessing clean/hexagonal architecture compliance

Quick Reference: Architecture Smells

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

Frequently asked about Architecture Review

What else does decebals publish alongside Architecture Review?
Architecture Review is one of 18 skills that DirSkills catalogs from decebals/claude-code-java, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include API Contract Review, Changelog Generator and Clean Code. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Architecture Review does, and is maintained by decebals in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the decebals/claude-code-java page.
How does Architecture Review compare to other Quality skills?
Architecture Review ranks #1032 by stars among the 1354 Quality skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Benchmark, Benchmark Optimization Loop and API Design Patterns. 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 Review against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.