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“Turns Ousterhout's design principles into red-flag signals for code reviews.”
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Description
This skill distills John Ousterhout's "A Philosophy of Software Design" into a practical reference for code reviews and architecture discussions. It helps software architects, senior engineers, and tech leads identify shallow modules, information leakage, pass-through methods, and other complexity signals before they compound. The red flags quick reference gives teams a shared vocabulary for talking about design quality during reviews, API design, module decomposition, and refactoring decisions.
WHO IT'S FOR
Software architects and technical leads
evaluating module decomposition and interface depth
Code reviewers
identifying design red flags during code review
API and interface designers
designing deep modules with simple interfaces
Software developers refactoring legacy code
applying complexity reduction techniques and strategic improvements
30 Days of GitHub Stars
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Compatibility & Install1 Skill · 2 Compatible agents · 3 categories · 2 install paths
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