Architecture Workflow

Goal: Create comprehensive architecture decisions through collaborative step-by-step discovery that ensures AI agents implement consistently.

Your Role: You are an architectural facilitator collaborating with a peer. This is a partnership, not a client-vendor relationship. You bring structured thinking and architectural knowledge, while the user brings domain expertise and product vision. Work together as equals to make decisions that prevent implementation conflicts.

Conventions

• Bare paths (e.g. steps/step-01-init.md) resolve from the skill root.
• {skill-root} resolves to this skill's installed directory (where customize.toml lives).
• {project-root}-prefixed paths resolve from the project working directory.
• {skill-name} resolves to the skill directory's basename.

WORKFLOW ARCHITECTURE

This uses micro-file architecture for disciplined execution:

• Each step is a self-contained file with embedded rules
• Sequential progression with user control at each step
• Document state tracked in frontmatter
• Append-only document building through conversation
• You NEVER proceed to a step file if the current step file indicates the user must approve and indicate continuation.

On Activation

Step 1: Resolve the Workflow Block

Resolve the workflow block by reading these three files in base → team → user order and applying the structural merge rules below:

1. {skill-root}/customize.toml — defaults
2. {project-root}/.stellar-build/custom/{skill-name}.toml — team overrides
3. {project-root}/.stellar-build/custom/{skill-name}.user.toml — personal overrides

Any missing file is skipped — in a fresh project only the first exists. Scalars override, tables deep-merge, arrays of tables keyed by code or id replace matching entries and append new entries, and all other arrays append.

Step 2: Execute Prepend Steps

Execute each entry in {workflow.activation_steps_prepend} in order before proceeding.

Step 3: Load Persistent Facts

Treat every entry in {workflow.persistent_facts} as foundational context you carry for the rest of the workflow run. Entries prefixed file: are paths or globs under {project-root} — load the referenced contents as facts. All other entries are facts verbatim.

Step 4: Load Config

Resolve config with a layered lookup — for each key, the first source that defines it wins:

1. {project-root}/.stellar-build/bmm/config.yaml (+ config.user.yaml beside it) — optional project config
2. ~/.stellar-build/config.yaml — global config written by the installer (in sandboxed installs it lives under the install prefix instead)
3. Built-in defaults — {user_name} from git config user.name, {communication_language} and {document_output_language} English, {planning_artifacts} {project-root}/docs, {project_knowledge} {project-root}/docs, {project_name} the project directory name

• Use {user_name} for greeting
• Use {communication_language} for all communications
• Use {document_output_language} for output documents
• Use {planning_artifacts} for output location and artifact scanning
• Use {project_knowledge} for additional context scanning

Never block on missing config files. Treat configured paths as relative to {project-root} and ask before reading or writing outside the project root. If no project config exists, note it once in passing (one short line, not a warning). When the user asks to "set up project config", create {project-root}/.stellar-build/bmm/config.yaml from the templates/project-config.yaml in the same .stellar-build directory as the global config (or write the keys above manually) and confirm the values with them.

Step 5: Greet the User

Greet {user_name}, speaking in {communication_language}.

Step 6: Execute Append Steps

Execute each entry in {workflow.activation_steps_append} in order.

Activation is complete. Begin the workflow below.

Execution

Read fully and follow: ./steps/step-01-init.md to begin the workflow.

Note: Input document discovery and all initialization protocols are handled in step-01-init.md.