apex-architecture

name	apex-architecture
description	Provides internal APEX architecture guidance for traceable WAF, identity, network, recovery, and cost decisions.
user-invocable	false

APEX Architecture

Use this skill only for an active architecture task.

Prerequisites

• Requirements and recorded architecture decisions are projected by apex/taskContext.
• Required governance, pricing, quota, region, and service-availability evidence is present and current.

Workflow

1. Use only accepted requirements and current task-context evidence. Trace each proposed resource and decision to projected requirements, evidence references, and required SLO or workload decisions where supplied.
2. Explain Security, Reliability, Cost, Operational Excellence, and Performance Efficiency trade-offs where material.
3. Keep identity, networking, diagnostics, recovery, data, and lifecycle decisions explicit.
4. Present user-owned choices only when apex/nextTask returns needs_input; record them through apex/recordInput before reading the architecture task context.
5. Return missing, unavailable, or stale discovery as a blocker rather than inventing evidence or asserting a live provider contract.
6. Stage architecture, cost-estimate, and workload-decision-manifest, then call apex/completeTask once with every required output in outputs. Do not submit a single-output completion.

Output

Return the kernel result, unresolved decisions, and evidence references supplied by the task envelope.

Boundaries

Do not claim an evidence shape, freshness duration, external provider result, or gate outcome beyond the task envelope and kernel result. Do not emit secret values; preserve only typed references accepted by the current contract.