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feat: add cloud-solution-architect skill#170

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Summary

Add a new cloud-solution-architect core skill for designing well-architected Azure cloud systems, based on the Azure Architecture Center.

What's Included

SKILL.md (317 lines)

  • 10 design principles for Azure applications
  • 6 architecture styles with selection criteria
  • 44 cloud design patterns organized by concern and mapped to WAF pillars
  • Technology choice frameworks (compute, storage, data, messaging, networking, AI, containers)
  • 12 best practices for cloud applications
  • 10 performance antipatterns to avoid
  • Mission-critical design overview (99.99%+ SLO)
  • Well-Architected Framework 5-pillar tradeoff matrix
  • 7-step architecture review workflow with ADR template

Progressive Discovery (8 reference files, ~3,000 lines)

Reference Lines Content
design-patterns.md 873 All 44 patterns with problem/when-to-use/WAF pillars
acceptance-criteria.md 436 Test acceptance criteria
architecture-styles.md 365 6 styles with ASCII diagrams and tradeoffs
design-principles.md 328 All 10 principles with recommendations
best-practices.md 311 12 practices with WAF alignment
mission-critical.md 285 High-availability design areas
performance-antipatterns.md 242 10 antipatterns with detection/fixes
technology-choices.md 159 Decision tables for Azure services

Tests

  • 8 test scenarios covering: architecture review, design pattern selection, technology choices, WAF assessment, mission-critical design, performance antipattern detection, scalability design, event-driven architecture

Documentation Updates

  • README.md: Core skill count 7→8, new skill added alphabetically to catalog
  • skills.json: Regenerated for GitHub Pages (auto-picked up by extract-skills.ts)

Source

All content derived from the Azure Architecture Center — Microsoft's official cloud architecture guidance.

Add a new core skill for designing well-architected Azure cloud systems,
based on the Azure Architecture Center.

Includes:
- SKILL.md with 10 design principles, 6 architecture styles, 44 cloud
  design patterns mapped to WAF pillars, technology choices, best practices,
  performance antipatterns, mission-critical design, and architecture review
  workflow
- 8 reference files for progressive discovery (design-patterns, design-
  principles, architecture-styles, best-practices, technology-choices,
  mission-critical, performance-antipatterns, acceptance-criteria)
- 8 test scenarios covering architecture review, pattern selection,
  technology choices, WAF assessment, mission-critical design, performance
  antipattern detection, scalability, and event-driven architecture
- Updated README.md skill catalog (core: 7→8)
- Regenerated skills.json for GitHub Pages

Source: Azure Architecture Center
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/
@thegovind thegovind merged commit 7fbcee6 into main Mar 3, 2026
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