Improve codebase architecture

Finds the places where deepening a module would remove a whole class of call-site complexity.

Installation

$ npx skills add mattpocock/skills

The CLI's unit is the repository, so this installs everything in mattpocock/skills, not improve-codebase-architecture alone. It writes into whichever agent directories it finds — Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Copilot, Windsurf, Zed.

Summary

Finds the places where deepening a module would remove a whole class of call-site complexity.

  • Reach for it when every feature touches nine files and you want to know which boundary is wrong.
  • Spans Design & architect and Review, so it is usually worth loading for the whole piece of work rather than at one moment in it.
  • Stack-agnostic — nothing in it assumes a particular language or framework.
  • Published by Matt Pocock. Well regarded, but not the vendor of the thing it covers.
  • Installing pulls the whole mattpocock/skills repository: this catalogue lists 6 other entries from it, and the repo may hold more.

Where it sits in delivery

Design & architectInterfaces, module boundaries and domain language — decided before the code sets them in concrete.Everything in Design
ReviewReading a diff critically, and the far harder skill of acting on what a reviewer said.Everything in Review

The skill itself

The full text lives with its publisher and changes when they change it. Read it there rather than here — a mirrored copy of somebody else's procedure goes stale silently, and this page would have no way of telling you.

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