improve-codebase-architecturelisted
Install: claude install-skill toverux/grimoire
# Improve Codebase Architecture
Surface architectural friction and propose **deepening opportunities** — refactors that turn shallow modules into deep ones.
The aim is testability and AI-navigability.
Built on a shared design vocabulary: run the `codebase-design` skill for the architecture vocabulary (**module**, **interface**, **depth**, **seam**, **adapter**, **leverage**, **locality**) and its principles (the deletion test, "the interface is the test surface", "one adapter = hypothetical seam, two = real").
Use these terms exactly in every suggestion — don't drift into "component," "service," "API," or "boundary."
Where the project keeps a domain glossary (an `AGENTS.md` glossary section or `CONCEPTS.md`), its terms give names to good seams.
## Process
### 1. Explore
**Scope before you scan — YAGNI.**
Deepening a module pays off by making future changes to it easier, so put extra weight on the parts of the codebase that have recently changed.
Decide _where_ to look before you look:
- If the user named a direction — a module, a subsystem, a pain point — take it, and skip the inference below.
- Otherwise, walk back a good stretch of the commit history (`git log --oneline`) to find the codebase's hot spots — the files and areas that keep coming up — and let those paths pull your attention first.
If the changes are scattered with no clear hot spot, widen the net.
Read the project's domain glossary first, and search `docs/solutions/` for learnings and recorded rejectio