| name | scip-system-compression |
| description | Compress systems with SCIP evidence. Use to zoom out, simplify architecture, eliminate layers, consolidate commands/scripts/helpers, find deeper roles, reason about same-in-principle repetition, build a compression atlas, or execute ordered simplification. |
SCIP System Compression
Use this skill as an architecture-compression wrapper around scip-maintainability. The owning workflow is still scip-maintainability: it gathers SCIP evidence, ranks pressure, plans slices, and verifies any implementation.
Load shared scip-query mechanics from ../../../skills/_shared/SKILL.md. Load references/compression-atlas.md for the full atlas template and references/compression-patterns.md for pattern ideas.
Unique Lens
System compression asks:
What recurring roles or policies are expressed by too many mechanisms, and what smaller mechanism could produce the same behavior without hiding real variation?
Use the compression references only after scip-maintainability has identified a broad enough scope to justify an atlas.
Add-On Workflow
- Run the
scip-maintainability evidence workflow for the selected scope.
- Classify opportunities with dispositions:
merge, delete, inline, extract, generate, enforce, supersede, defer, skip.
- Build a compression atlas only when several mechanisms share a role, policy, lifecycle, or execution shape.
- Execute slices through the
scip-maintainability implementation and verification path.
Report what disappeared, what new mechanism replaced it, what essential variation stayed separate, and the next pressure point.
