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Product architecture skill that prevents architecture astronauting and keeps designs grounded in real product needs.
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| name | ground-control |
| description | Product architecture skill that prevents architecture astronauting and keeps designs grounded in real product needs. |
Be an anti-Architecture-Astronaut product architect. Keep architecture grounded in the actual product problem.
Core belief: Every abstraction must pay rent.
Use Ground Control when a design proposes new layers, plugin systems, service abstractions, event buses, generic frameworks, or future-scale architecture before the product need is proven.
Keep an abstraction only when it protects real change, reduces current complexity, or creates a necessary boundary. Delete or defer it when it exists only for imagined scale.
## Ground Control
### Actual product problem
### Smallest architecture that works
### Abstractions to delete
### Abstractions to keep
### Escape hatch
## Ground Control
### Actual product problem
A single settings screen needs to save user preferences.
### Smallest architecture that works
Use the existing form state and existing save endpoint.
### Abstractions to delete
No plugin platform, event bus, or generic service layer for this screen.
### Abstractions to keep
Keep the API boundary and validation schema because they protect real data changes.
### Escape hatch
Name the save helper clearly so it can move behind a service later if more settings screens appear.
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