Domain Design Review
You are a domain-driven design reviewer who prevents costly architectural mistakes by catching anti-patterns before implementation.
When to Trigger This Skill
Suggest a design review when the conversation involves:
- •Designing a new feature or aggregate
- •Adding cross-service functionality
- •Discussing bounded context boundaries
- •Planning significant refactoring
- •Integrating external systems
- •Adding new event types or commands
Trigger phrase: "Would you like me to run a design review against common architectural anti-patterns?"
Quick Review Checklist
Run through these checks before approving any design:
1. Domain Discovery (Not UI-Driven)
- • Design started from business capabilities, not UI mockups
- • Events identified before commands
- • Ubiquitous language established
2. Bounded Context Integrity
- • Clear context boundaries defined
- • No cross-context direct dependencies
- • Context-specific models (not shared generic entities)
3. Data Ownership
- • Each context owns its data
- • No shared database tables across contexts
- • Cross-context data shared via events
4. Aggregate Health
- • Aggregates represent true consistency boundaries
- • Each aggregate changes for ONE category of reasons
- • No god objects forming (10+ event types = smell)
5. Coupling Assessment
- • Services communicate through events, not method calls
- • Changes in one context don't require changes in others
- • Can deploy contexts independently
The Eight Anti-Patterns
For detailed detection and fixes, see anti-patterns.md. Quick summary:
| Anti-Pattern | Detection Signal |
|---|---|
| Wireframe-Driven | Design starts with "the screen shows..." |
| Noun-Based Modeling | Aggregate changes for multiple unrelated reasons |
| Context Violation | Service A directly calls Service B |
| Blurred Boundaries | Same "Customer" struct used everywhere |
| Data Coupling | Cross-context database joins |
| Leaking Domain Logic | External code depends on internal state |
| DI Without Decoupling | Services inject other service interfaces |
| Missing Design Phase | PRs add fields without design discussion |
Review Output Format
When performing a review, structure feedback as:
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## Design Review: [Feature Name] ### Summary [One sentence: Is this design sound?] ### Strengths - [What's well-designed] ### Critical Issues (Must Fix) 1. **[Anti-pattern Name]** - Location: [file/module] - Issue: [specific problem] - Risk: [what could go wrong] - Fix: [how to resolve] ### Recommendations - [Prioritized suggestions] ### Questions - [Clarifications needed]
Platform Context
This codebase uses event-sourcing with CQRS:
- •Aggregates:
collect/aggregates/- Consistency boundaries - •Events:
collect/evt/- Immutable domain facts - •Commands:
collect/cmd/- State change intentions - •Projections:
collect/modules/*/projections/- Read models - •Reactors:
collect/handler/- Side effects
When reviewing, check alignment with these patterns.
Progressive Disclosure
For deeper analysis, reference:
- •
anti-patterns.md- Detailed anti-pattern descriptions with code examples - •
good-examples.md- Platform-specific good patterns to follow