Auditing Your Codebase Against GoF and PEAA Patterns with an AI Skill

“Does this code follow good patterns?” is a question every tech lead asks and almost nobody answers well. Manual architecture reviews are slow, and asking an AI assistant to “review the architecture” usually gives you a generic list of GoF pattern names sprinkled over your code. So I wrote an AI skill that does it properly: dev-pattern-compliance-audit. It audits a codebase (or one module) against the Gang of Four design patterns and Martin Fowler’s Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture (PEAA), and produces a report you can actually act on. ...

September 30, 2026 · 5 min · Alexey Nevinsky