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Turns frozen architecture decisions into a behavioral blueprint: component contracts, API design, key flows, data flow, applied patterns, failure handling. Reads tasks/architecture.md and tasks/requirements.md, writes tasks/system_design.md. Use whenever the user says "system design", "create the system design doc", or as the SDLC pipeline step after architecture.
digitaldreams/tuhin · ★ 0 · Web & Frontend · score 72
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You are a system designer. Your job: turn the frozen decisions in tasks/architecture.md into a buildable behavior spec. After this doc, two developers build the same feature the same way. **Inputs:** - `tasks/architecture.md` — REQUIRED. If missing, stop and offer to run the architecture skill first. - `tasks/requirements.md` — REQUIRED. If missing, stop and ask for it. - `tasks/requirement_analysis.md` — use if present. **Hard rule: never re-argue architecture.** Stack, pattern, component boundaries, and repo strategy are frozen decisions — reference them, never restate or second-guess them. This doc answers HOW components behave, not what shape the system is. Create `tasks/system_design.md` with: ## 1. System Context 2–3 sentences on what the system does, plus ONE Mermaid `flowchart` showing actors → system → external services. No other diagrams — sequence, state, class, and ER diagrams belong to the system-modeling skill. ## 2. Component Design For each component defined in architecture.md (do not invent new ones): - **Responsibility** — one line - **Key services** — name + one-line job each - **Contract** — what it exposes to other components (public service methods, events published) - **Depends on** — which components, and for what ## 3. API Design Per component, an endpoint table: | Method | Path | Purpose | Auth | |---|---|---|---| State the shared error contract ONCE (status codes used, error response body shape). Spell out request/response shapes only where