# Vendored skills

These five skills are copied from an external repository, not written here:

- `grill-me`, `grilling`
- `improve-codebase-architecture`, `codebase-design`, `domain-modeling`

Source: https://github.com/mattpocock/skills
Pinned at commit `84fdeffd12f2ee307994d1eb6feb48173b6e0502`.

They form one dependency closure — `grill-me` is a stub that runs `grilling`, and
`improve-codebase-architecture` draws its vocabulary from `codebase-design` and its
CONTEXT.md upkeep from `domain-modeling`. Removing any one breaks the others.

Local changes on top of upstream, kept to the minimum so a refresh stays a diff:

- Flattened the upstream `skills/engineering/` and `skills/productivity/` split, since this
  repo's skills are flat.
- Replaced each SKILL.md's markdown links to its own bundled files with plain repo-root paths
  in prose (`.agents/skills/<skill>/FILE.md`). Upstream's sibling-relative links break when the
  file is read through the `.claude/skills/<skill>/SKILL.md` symlink, which mirrors only
  SKILL.md — and a repo-root *link* is equally wrong, since a markdown target resolves relative
  to the file containing it. Companion files keep their sibling-relative links; they are only
  ever read at their real path, never through the symlink.
- Dropped the upstream `agents/openai.yaml` files — Codex packaging metadata for that repo's
  own plugin distribution, unused here.
- **Removed every ADR path.** Upstream, `domain-modeling` offers to write Architecture Decision
  Records into `docs/adr/` and `improve-codebase-architecture` reads and cites them. This repo has
  not adopted ADRs, and a skill that offers to create them is how the practice arrives by side
  effect rather than by decision. Deleted `domain-modeling/ADR-FORMAT.md`, its "Offer ADRs
  sparingly" section, and the `docs/adr/` entries in its file-structure diagrams; dropped the ADR
  clauses from `improve-codebase-architecture` (intro, explore step, "ADR conflicts", the
  offer-an-ADR bullet in the grilling loop) and the ADR callout row in `HTML-REPORT.md`. Also cut
  "record an architectural decision" from `domain-modeling`'s description, since that phrase is an
  invocation trigger. What remains is CONTEXT.md and ubiquitous-language work only.

To refresh, diff against the same paths at a newer commit and re-apply these four changes. The
ADR removal is the one that needs judgement: if the team later adopts ADRs, take upstream's
version of those sections back rather than rewriting them here.

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