codebase-designlisted
Install: claude install-skill ConnorGriffin/skills
# Codebase Design
Design **deep modules**: a lot of behaviour behind a small interface, placed at a
clean seam, testable through that interface. Use this language and these
principles wherever code is being designed or restructured. The aim is leverage
for callers, locality for maintainers, and testability for everyone.
`references/DESIGN-IT-TWICE.md`'s briefs assume a `CONTEXT.md` glossary (the
`domain-modeling` skill's format) alongside this vocabulary — load
`domain-modeling` too when one exists.
## Glossary
Use these terms exactly — don't substitute "component," "service," "API," or
"boundary." Consistent language is the whole point.
**Module** — anything with an interface and an implementation. Deliberately
scale-agnostic: a function, class, package, or tier-spanning slice. _Avoid_:
unit, component, service.
**Interface** — everything a caller must know to use the module correctly: the
type signature, but also invariants, ordering constraints, error modes, required
configuration, and performance characteristics. _Avoid_: API, signature (too
narrow — they refer only to the type-level surface).
**Implementation** — what's inside a module, its body of code. Distinct from
**Adapter**: a thing can be a small adapter with a large implementation (a
Postgres repo) or a large adapter with a small implementation (an in-memory
fake). Reach for "adapter" when the seam is the topic; "implementation"
otherwise.
**Depth** — leverage at the interface: the amount of behaviour a c