reviewing-aspire-architecture

Testing & Quality

Triggers deep architectural review across 15 Aspire-specific dimensions. Activated by requests for deep review, architectural review, pattern review, or PRs touching hosting core, Azure integrations, dashboard, CLI, or components.

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Aspire Architectural Review

Aspire-specific architectural review via the reviewing-aspire-architecture agent. Catches domain patterns that generic code-review cannot.

When to Use

Use: "deep review," "architectural review," "pattern review," PRs touching hosting core, Azure integrations, dashboard, CLI, components, new resource types, app model changes, deployment behavior.

Don't use: doc/config-only PRs → code-review · generic PR review → code-review · CI failures → ci-test-failures · flaky tests → fix-flaky-test · API surface → api-review

Relationship to code-review

code-review covers generic bugs, security, perf, concurrency, and error handling. This skill covers only checks requiring Aspire domain knowledge. Some topic areas (Security, Performance, Error Handling) exist in both, but the checks are disjoint: generic patterns belong to code-review, Aspire-specific patterns belong here. Run code-review first for breadth, then this for domain depth.

Folder → Dimension Routing

Folder	Dimensions
`src/Aspire.Hosting/**`	Resource Model, API Design, Pattern Conformance, Containers
`src/Aspire.Hosting.Azure/*`	Azure Provisioning, Resource Model, API Design, Security
`src/Aspire.Dashboard/**`	Dashboard UI/UX, Security, Performance
`src/Aspire.Cli/**`	CLI Behavior, Error Handling, Platform Compatibility
`src/Components/**`	Pattern Conformance, API Design, Build & Contributor Workflow
`tests/**`	Test Quality + mirror dimensions of code under test
`eng/`, `.github/`	Build & Contributor Workflow, Documentation & Naming

Full review rules in the reviewing-aspire-architecture agent.