DEPRECATED — superseded by righting-software-system-design, a more faithful and complete implementation of Juval Löwy's iDesign methodology from Righting Software. Do not invoke this skill for new decomposition sessions. The only valid trigger is when the user explicitly asks to continue an in-progress decomposition they started with this specific skill before its deprecation (e.g., "let's pick up the volatility-decomposition session I started", "continue my old decomposition", or names this skill by its exact slug volatility-decomposition). For everything else — including all references to iDesign, Juval Löwy, Righting Software, "The Method", volatility-based decomposition, axes of change, Manager/Engine/Access/Accessor/Utility terminology, architectural ambiguity, "how should I break this up?", monolith extraction, microservices design, or unknown-unknowns — defer to righting-software-system-design.
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About this skill
DEPRECATED — superseded by righting-software-system-design, a more faithful and complete implementation of Juval Löwy's iDesign methodology from Righting Software. Do not invoke this skill for new decomposition sessions. The only valid trigger is when the user explicitly asks to continue an in-progress decomposition they started with this specific skill before its deprecation (e.g., "let's pick up the volatility-decomposition session I started", "continue my old decomposition", or names this skill by its exact slug volatility-decomposition). For everything else — including all references to iDesign, Juval Löwy, Righting Software, "The Method", volatility-based decomposition, axes of change, Manager/Engine/Access/Accessor/Utility terminology, architectural ambiguity, "how should I break this up?", monolith extraction, microservices design, or unknown-unknowns — defer to righting-software-system-design.
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DEPRECATED — superseded by `righting-software-system-design`, a more faithful and complete implementation of Juval Löwy's iDesign methodology from *Righting Software*. **Do not invoke this skill for new decomposition sessions.** The only valid trigger is when the user explicitly asks to continue an in-progress decomposition they started with this specific skill before its deprecation (e.g., "let's pick up the volatility-decomposition session I started", "continue my old decomposition", or names this skill by its exact slug `volatility-decomposition`). For everything else — including all references to iDesign, Juval Löwy, *Righting Software*, "The Method", volatility-based decomposition, axes of change, Manager/Engine/Access/Accessor/Utility terminology, architectural ambiguity, "how should I break this up?", monolith extraction, microservices design, or unknown-unknowns — defer to `righting-software-system-design`.
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Category
Engineering
Reported license
Unlicense
Listing language (estimated)
English
Review status
Not individually reviewed
Agent compatibility
Atlas installation supports Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor. Skill-specific dependencies and features are checked during setup.
Claude Code
Codex
Cursor
GitHub Copilot
Gemini CLI