Claude-Code-Game-Studios/.claude/skills/architecture-review/references/1-load.md

# /architecture-review — Phase 1: Load Everything

> Part of `/architecture-review`. `SKILL.md` names when to read this file; the settings it
> resolved and the rules under its later headings still apply here.

## Phase 1: Load Everything

**In this file:**

- Phase 1a — L0: Summary Scan (fast, low tokens)
- Phase 1b — L1/L2: Targeted Section Load
- Design Documents
- Architecture Documents
- Engine Reference
- Project Standards

### Phase 1a — L0: Summary Scan (fast, low tokens)

**Freshness check before any scan.** Locate the latest prior report — Glob
`docs/architecture/architecture-review-*.md` and take the newest — then:

```
Bash: bash .claude/scripts/review-receipts.sh check "[latest-report]" docs/architecture/adr-*.md design/gdd/*.md
```

- **Any `UNRESOLVED`** — check this FIRST; it disqualifies every option
  below. One of the two globs matched no file, so that whole document class
  was never examined and the comparison covered less than it appears to.
  Say which pattern came back unresolved and stop: an ADR or GDD directory
  that is empty, renamed or misspelled is a finding about the project, not a
  reason to stand on a prior report. Never read a set of `UNCHANGED` lines as
  "everything is current" while an `UNRESOLVED` line is present — the set
  compared was not the set requested.
- **Everything `UNCHANGED`** (and no `UNRESOLVED`) — nothing this review
  reads has changed since that report; re-running reproduces it. Surface the
  prior report's date and verdict and offer via `AskUserQuestion`: `[A] Stand
  on the prior report (Recommended)` / `[B] Re-run the full review anyway` —
  `guided` proceeds with [A] and notes it; `autonomous` logs via
  `log_decision` and stands on the prior report.
- **Some `CHANGED`/`NEW`** — name them, then scope instead of re-running
  everything: recommend `/architecture-review [system]` (single-system mode)
  for just the changed systems. A full re-run stays available on request,
  and structural changes (a `NEW` ADR, a deleted file) warrant one.
- **`RECEIPT: NONE`** — no prior report, or one written before receipts
  existed. Proceed with the full review; this run's report will carry the
  first stamps.

Before reading any full document, use Grep to extract `## Summary` sections
from all GDDs and ADRs:

```
Grep pattern="## Summary" glob="design/gdd/*.md" output_mode="content" -A 4
Grep pattern="## Summary" glob="docs/architecture/adr-*.md" output_mode="content" -A 3
```

**Fail open on a missing Summary.** Establish the denominator: glob
`design/gdd/*.md` and count **N**. A scan matching fewer than N means those GDDs
predate `## Summary` (`/design-system` emits it, but older GDDs lack it) — never
treat an absent Summary as a system out of scope. A zero-match scan means "no GDD
carries a Summary yet", not "nothing to review": full-read the unmatched set.

For `single-gdd [path]` mode: use the target GDD's summary to identify which
ADRs reference the same system (Grep ADRs for the system name), then load only
those ADRs' sections per Phase 1b. Skip unrelated GDDs entirely.

For `engine` mode: load ADR sections only — GDDs are not needed for engine checks.
In practice this is the `## Engine Compatibility` scan alone.

For `coverage` or `full` mode: proceed to Phase 1b for the full in-scope set.
**This is a section load, not a full-file load** — see below for why, and for the
narrow cases that still justify escalating to a whole document.

### Phase 1b — L1/L2: Targeted Section Load

Load the sections the later phases actually consume — **not whole files**. This
skill reads the two largest document sets in the project (every GDD *and* every
ADR); at realistic sizes a full load of both exhausts the context window before
Phase 2 starts, and most of what it loads is narrative this skill never uses.

**Establish the denominator first.** Glob `design/gdd/*.md` and count **N_gdd**;
glob `docs/architecture/adr-*.md` and count **N_adr**. Report both. A section
scan matching fewer than the denominator means those documents lack the section —
**never treat an absent section as an absent document.** The scan narrows the
*read* set; it never shrinks the *in-scope* set.

### Design Documents

Phase 2 extracts *technical requirements* — data structures, performance
constraints, engine capabilities, cross-system communication, persistence,
threading, platform needs. Those live in a known set of sections; Overview and
Player Fantasy are narrative and yield none.

```
Grep pattern="^## (Detailed Rules|Detailed Design|Formulas|Dependencies|Tuning Knobs|Acceptance Criteria)" glob="design/gdd/*.md" output_mode="content" -A 40
```

Accept **either** `## Detailed Rules` or `## Detailed Design` — the design
standard and the GDD template disagree on the name and they denote the same
required section. Full-read a single GDD only when a scanned section
cross-references material outside itself, or when a GDD matched zero sections
(it predates the template — read it whole and say so).

- `design/gdd/systems-index.md` — the authoritative list of systems; read whole (small, and it is an index)

### Architecture Documents

Phases 3–5 need the traceability table, the decision itself, engine claims, and
the dependency edges — not Context, Consequences, Alternatives, Migration Plan or
Validation Criteria, which explain *why* a decision was made.

```
Grep pattern="^## (Status|Decision|GDD Requirements Addressed|Engine Compatibility|ADR Dependencies|Performance Implications)" glob="docs/architecture/adr-*.md" output_mode="content" -A 30
```

Interpret against **N_adr**, and distinguish the two zero-match cases — they are
not the same finding:

| Result | Meaning | Action |
|---|---|---|
| N_adr matches | Normal. | Proceed on the scanned sections. |
| Some ADRs match, some do not | Those ADRs are missing sections. | Record each as a **structural gap** in the Phase 7 report — a missing `## GDD Requirements Addressed` is itself a traceability finding. |
| **0 matches, N_adr > 0** | **Malformed ADRs**, not "no architecture". | "[N_adr] ADRs found, none carries a scannable section — run `/architecture-decision retrofit [file]` on each." Do **not** report zero coverage; that would read as a design failure when it is a format failure. |

Escalate to a full read of one ADR only when judging a conflict needs its
reasoning (Phase 4) — that is a per-ADR decision, not a blanket load.

- `docs/architecture/architecture.md` if it exists

### Engine Reference
- `docs/engine-reference/[engine]/VERSION.md`
- `docs/engine-reference/[engine]/breaking-changes.md`
- `docs/engine-reference/[engine]/deprecated-apis.md`
- **Only the module docs the in-scope ADRs actually name** — take the union of
  each ADR's `References Consulted` and `Post-Cutoff APIs Used` fields (already
  captured by the `## Engine Compatibility` scan above) and read those files.
  Reading the whole `modules/` directory loads engine subsystems the project may
  not use at all. If no ADR names any module, read none and note it: Phase 5
  cannot cross-check engine claims that were never made.

### Project Standards
- `project.yaml` — `naming.*` and `performance.*`; plus `.claude/docs/technical-preferences.md` for those keys when absent and for forbidden patterns / allowed libraries

Report a count: "Loaded [N] GDDs, [M] ADRs, engine: [name + version]."

**Also read `docs/consistency-failures.md`** if it exists. Extract entries with
Domain matching the systems under review (Architecture, Engine, or any GDD domain
being covered). Surface recurring patterns as a "Known conflict-prone areas" note
at the top of the Phase 4 conflict detection output.

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