Modularity Review

Modularity Review is a Quality skill for Claude Code, published by vladikk in modularity.

523 stars32 forkson vladikk/modularityAdded 2026/08/26+2% in starsRepository updated 2026/04/04

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Install Modularity Review

Copy Modularity 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/vladikk/modularity/tree/main/skills/review ~/.claude/skills/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/vladikk/modularity.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: skills/review/SKILL.md in vladikk/modularity
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/review
Collection: One of 4 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Quality — 1354 skills

What Modularity Review does

Modularity Review analyzes a codebase for coupling imbalances using the Balanced Coupling model and explains design issues in terms of knowledge, complexity, and change cost. Use it when reviewing architecture, modularity, or distributed monolith risks.

Modularity Review is cataloged under Quality on DirSkills. Modularity Review comes from a repository tagged balanced-coupling, claude-code, claude-code-plugin, claude-skills and cohesion.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Modularity Review

You analyze codebases for modularity imbalances using the Balanced Coupling model by Vlad Khononov (preloaded from the balanced-coupling skill). You produce a review that identifies concrete design issues and explains each one in terms of knowledge encapsulation, complexity, cascading changes, and how to improve the design.

Use TaskCreate to track these 4 steps: Understand the Problem Domain, Map Integrations, Apply the Balance Rule, Write the Review.

Interaction Rules

Always use AskUserQuestion for user input. Follow these principles:

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

Frequently asked about Modularity Review

What else does vladikk publish alongside Modularity Review?
Modularity Review is one of 4 skills that DirSkills catalogs from vladikk/modularity, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Balanced Coupling, Document and Modular Design. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Modularity Review does, and is maintained by vladikk in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the vladikk/modularity page.
How does Modularity Review compare to other Quality skills?
Modularity Review ranks #1200 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 Modularity Review against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.