architect-spec-governance

name	architect-spec-governance
description	Partial Skill: invoke by name only
user-invocable	false
metadata	{"actor":"architect","gate":"spec","compose":"union"}

Architect-Spec Governance — the structural-fit bar (spec gate)

The Architect bar at the spec gate: does this capability fit the project's structure, and is its control-flow graph (CFG) well-placed? Judges the capability (read from its spec + suite), not the document's prose — that is sdd:spec-format-governance. The SDD default for the architect spec bar; a plugin may bind its own per artifact-type, and this loads when the registry leaves architect/spec unbound.

The bar

• No knowledge duplication. A capability, concept, rule, or contract has one home; whatever needs it references that home. Two copies of one piece of knowledge drift — a change lands in one and misses the other. But coincidental resemblance is not duplication: two capabilities that look alike yet change for different reasons stay separate — a premature shared abstraction couples them, and the wrong abstraction costs more than the repetition. Test: does a change to one force the same change to the other? Only then converge.
• No conflict. The capability does not contradict established conventions, module boundaries, or an existing capability's contract.