# suede-ops-architecture

Plan an operations system before building it: define its data, give each entity one write path, and decide which tasks belong to code, an agent, or a person.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · ★ 126
- Author: JasonColapietro
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/JasonColapietro/suede-creator-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/suede-ops-architecture/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-24
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/suede-ops-architecture

## What it does

The skill starts with entities, fields, relationships, and lifecycle states, then checks that each entity has exactly one place where records are created and updated. It routes each work unit to deterministic automation, an AI agent, or a human decision. Tasks that could move money, affect people outside the team, change access, or delete data require human approval.

It also sorts existing tools into absorb, keep, or kill, then lays out build phases with a command to prove each phase is complete. The deliverable is a written architecture, not a repository change. For unfamiliar work, read `references/triage-examples.md` before classifying tasks; multiple write paths for one entity stop the process until a path is chosen.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add JasonColapietro/suede-creator-skills --skill suede-ops-architecture -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/suede-ops-architecture/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/suede-ops-architecture/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add JasonColapietro/suede-creator-skills --skill suede-ops-architecture -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/suede-ops-architecture/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add JasonColapietro/suede-creator-skills --skill suede-ops-architecture -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/suede-ops-architecture/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install JasonColapietro/suede-creator-skills suede-ops-architecture
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/suede-ops-architecture/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add JasonColapietro/suede-creator-skills --skill suede-ops-architecture -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/JasonColapietro/suede-creator-skills --path skills/suede-ops-architecture
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/suede-ops-architecture/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add JasonColapietro/suede-creator-skills --skill suede-ops-architecture -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/JasonColapietro/suede-creator-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/suede-ops-architecture/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- map entities and relationships before designing a screen
- give each entity a single record-writing path
- route work to code, an agent, or a human
- sort existing tools into absorb, keep, or kill
- sequence a build into phases with command-based checks

## Example prompts
- Plan this automation's architecture, starting with its entities and write paths.
- Classify these work units and assign each to automation, an agent, or a person.
- Plan the migration from the old system and decide which tools to retain.

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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# Suede Ops Architecture

```text
Ordering law: data, then workflows, then intelligence.
```

An agent reading fragmented data does not report that it holds a third of the
picture. It returns a fluent, confident answer built on a third of the picture.
Fragmented input produces polished mistakes at scale, and polished mistakes
survive review that visible chaos would not. Architecture is what stops the
model from being asked a question its inputs cannot answer.

This skill ends with a written architecture, not a build. Every step below
produces a line in the Output Contract, and every gate names what an agent does
when it fails.

## Before Starting

Collect these. Work with what exists and name what is missing in the Output
Contract rather than blocking on it.

1. **Entities**: the nouns the operation runs on (client, project, order, job,
   track, release, patient).
2. **Work units**: the recurring things people do, one line each, in the words
   the person doing them uses.
3. **Tool list**: every system holding operational data, including
   spreadsheets, shared drives, and any inbox used as a database.
4. **Cycle length**: median days for one unit of work to go from open to done.
5. **Blast radius per work unit**: what a wrong output costs, and whether it
   can be undone.

Read `references/triage-examples.md` for worked classifications before running
Step 3 on unfamiliar work.

## Step 1: Schema before surfaces

Name the entities, their fields, and their relationships before designing a
screen, an automation, or an agent.

For each entity record: the fields it carries, the entity it belongs to, and the
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