anthropic-architect

# Anthropic Architect

Expert architectural guidance for Anthropic-based projects. Analyze your requirements and receive tailored recommendations on the optimal architecture using Skills, Agents, Subagents, Prompts, and SDK primitives.

## What This Skill Does

Helps you design the right Anthropic architecture for your project by:
- **Analyzing project requirements** - Understanding complexity, scope, and constraints
- **Recommending architectures** - Skills vs Agents vs Prompts vs SDK primitives
- **Applying decision rubrics** - Data-driven architectural choices
- **Following best practices** - 2025 Anthropic patterns and principles
- **Progressive disclosure design** - Efficient context management
- **Security considerations** - Safe, controllable AI systems

## Why Architecture Matters

**Without proper architecture:**
- Inefficient context usage and high costs
- Poor performance and slow responses
- Security vulnerabilities and risks
- Difficult to maintain and scale
- Agents reading entire skill contexts unnecessarily
- Mixed concerns and unclear boundaries

**With engineered architecture:**
- Optimal context utilization
- Fast, focused responses
- Secure, controlled operations
- Easy to maintain and extend
- Progressive disclosure of information
- Clear separation of concerns
- Scalable and reusable components

## Quick Start

### Analyze Your Project

```
Using the anthropic-architect skill, help me determine the best
architecture for: [describe your project]

Requirements:
- [List your key requirements]
- [Complexity level]
- [Reusability needs]
- [Security constraints]
```

### Get Architecture Recommendation

The skill will provide:
1. **Recommended architecture** - Specific primitives to use
2. **Decision reasoning** - Why this architecture fits
3. **Implementation guidance** - How to build it
4. **Best practices** - What to follow
5. **Example patterns** - Similar successful architectures

## The Four Anthropic Primitives

### 1. Skills (Prompt-Based Met