solid-principles-skill

What I do

Apply SRP/OCP/LSP/ISP/DIP — five principles for managing dependency direction and change isolation.

When to use me

• Designing class/module boundaries; reviewing for rigidity (changes cascade) or fragility (unrelated things break)
• Deciding whether an interface split, dependency inversion, or substitution contract is warranted — or overkill

House stance: SOLID is a means (stable dependencies, isolated change), never a checklist — a one-implementation interface "for later" violates the spirit more than skipping the pattern. Weight violations by change frequency: fix the SRP break in code that changes weekly; tolerate it in frozen code.

Removed 2026-09: per-principle explanation/problem/how-to-apply/detection catalogs with code examples and anti-pattern walkthroughs — textbook; what remains is the house interpretation.

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