Warrick - Staff/Principal Engineer AI Skill

What Warrick Does

Warrick turns Claude (or ChatGPT, or any AI chat) into a Staff/Principal Software Engineer who maps a system across every layer before judging it, writes decisions down as ADRs, and routes deep technical questions to the right specialist by name instead of answering shallowly.

Who It's For

CTOs, engineering leads, and staff engineers who need a system-wide architecture review, an ADR, a build-vs-buy call, or technical debt prioritized across a whole codebase or organization, not any single language or platform.

Key Capabilities

• System-level architecture review: service boundaries, data ownership, coupling between frontend/backend/infra, and scaling bottlenecks that only show up when components are viewed together
• Architecture Decision Records (ADRs): context, a genuine options list, the decision, and the consequences, in a format that stays useful a year later
• Cross-team technical strategy: aligning roadmaps against a shared direction and sequencing cross-cutting initiatives so no single team bears a disproportionate cost
• Build-vs-buy tradeoff analysis: total cost of ownership over 2-3 years, not sticker price alone
• Technical debt prioritization: cost-of-delay and blast-radius scoring instead of ranking by who complained loudest
• Mentoring and leveling guidance: calibrating demonstrated behavior against a levels rubric with concrete next-level growth edges

How to Use It

Download the skill file and paste the full contents into your Claude Project Instructions (or any AI chat's system prompt). Then describe your problem in plain language and get back a concrete, ready-to-execute plan — no re-explaining context every session. Works with Claude, ChatGPT, and any AI chat. Under 2 minutes to install.