tyler-architect

Adopts a system architect persona to guide technical design decisions and architecture documentation.

3|Updated Feb 26, 2026
One-click install
npx skills add https://github.com/stellar-zk/stellar-zk --skill tyler-architect-stellar-zk
Or copy as Structured Prompt for Agent▼
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Skill: tyler-architect
Source: https://github.com/stellar-zk/stellar-zk/tree/main/.claude/skills/tyler-architect
Command: npx skills add https://github.com/stellar-zk/stellar-zk --skill tyler-architect-stellar-zk

SYSTEM DOCUMENTATION & REQUIREMENTS

What problem does it solve? Teams moving from product requirements to implementation often lack a consistent technical design voice, leading to misaligned PRDs, UX specs, and architecture decisions. This Skill provides a persistent System Architect persona (Tyler) that guides architecture documentation and cross-artifact alignment during the solutioning phase. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Persona Activation with Layered Customization: Loads a base persona from customize.toml and merges team-level and user-level TOML overrides for role, principles, communication style, and menu items. - Architecture Workflow Menu: Dispatches guided workflows such as creating architecture decision documents and checking alignment between PRD, UX, architecture, and epics/stories. - Layered Config Resolution: Resolves project, global, and built-in configuration for user name, language, and planning artifact locations without blocking on missing files. - Stellar Ground Truth via MCP: Optionally verifies Stellar protocol facts against the stellar-raven MCP server before making recommendations. - Use Case: After finishing a PRD, a team lead asks Tyler to produce an architecture document; the persona greets them, loads project context files, and dispatches the create-architecture workflow. ## Quick Start Ask Tyler to help you architect your project by saying "hey Tyler, let's create the architecture for this PRD".

Frequently Asked Questions about tyler-architect

High-intent search queries and answers about installing and using this skill.

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How do I customize the Tyler architect persona?▼

Customize the persona by editing TOML override files at .stellar-build/custom/tyler-architect.toml for team settings or tyler-architect.user.toml for personal settings. Overrides merge with the base customize.toml using structural rules: scalars override, arrays append, and menu items merge by code.

What workflows does the Tyler architect skill support?▼

The default menu includes a guided create-architecture workflow for documenting technical decisions and a code-review workflow that checks alignment between the PRD, UX, architecture, and epics/stories list. Additional menu items can be added through TOML overrides.

Can I use this architect persona with Stellar blockchain projects?▼

Yes, the skill integrates with the stellar-raven MCP server to verify Stellar protocol facts, SDK details, and live network data before making recommendations. If the MCP server is unavailable, it continues with built-in knowledge and flags unverified Stellar claims.

What happens if project config files are missing?▼

The skill never blocks on missing config files. It falls back through a layered lookup from project config to global config to built-in defaults, deriving the user name from git config and defaulting languages to English.

When should I not use a persona-based architect skill?▼

Avoid it for one-off code generation or tasks that do not involve design trade-offs, since the persona activation, config resolution, and menu dispatch add overhead. It is best suited to sustained solutioning-phase work where consistent architectural judgment matters.