{"slug":"angular-architecture-signals-review","title":"angular-architecture-signals-review","summary":"Statically review Angular component and service architecture for correct Signals usage (signal/computed/effect boundaries and purity), appropriate change-detection strategy (OnPush vs default), and service/DI boundary design, grounded in Angular's own Signals, change-detection, a","platform":"Claude","tags":[],"authorName":"LLM Mart","authorSlug":"llm-mart","score":0,"source":"github","price":null,"verified":false,"createdAt":"2026-10-05T21:52:10.500269Z","repo":{"url":"https://github.com/VincentChuWaiChow/vanguard-frontier-agentic","stars":24,"forks":3,"license":"Apache-2.0","updatedAt":"2026-10-05T13:00:24Z"},"bodyHtml":"<hr>\n<h2>name: angular-architecture-signals-review\ndescription: Statically review Angular component and service architecture for correct Signals usage (signal/computed/effect boundaries and purity), appropriate change-detection strategy (OnPush vs default), and service/DI boundary design, grounded in Angular's own Signals, change-detection, and dependency-injection guidance.\nallowed-tools: Read Grep Glob\nmetadata:\nauthor: \"github: VincentChuWaiChow\"\nversion: \"0.1.0\"\nupdated: \"2026-07-02\"\ncategory: architecture</h2>\n<h1>Angular Architecture &amp; Signals Review</h1>\n<h2>Purpose</h2>\n<p>Review Angular reactive-primitive boundaries (<code>signal</code>/<code>computed</code>/<code>effect</code>/<code>linkedSignal</code>), change-detection strategy, and service/DI ownership without re-litigating SSR/hydration concerns, RxJS-only legacy code with no Signals involved, or full zoneless-migration planning in every response. This skill exists so those adjacent concerns stay out of scope and the review stays focused on reactive-graph correctness and change-detection performance opportunities that are actually verifiable from the diff.</p>\n<h2>When to use</h2>\n<p>Use this skill when the user asks to:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>review a component migrated to or newly written with Signals for correctness,</li>\n<li>assess whether an <code>effect()</code> call has an inappropriate or missing side effect,</li>\n<li>review whether <code>computed()</code> usage stays pure,</li>\n<li>perform a change-detection performance review (OnPush adoption, strategy mismatches),</li>\n<li>review service/DI boundaries for ownership of cross-cutting mutable state.</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Do not use this skill for:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>pure RxJS-only legacy code with no Signals involved and no stated migration plan — that is a different, RxJS-specific review,</li>\n<li>SSR/hydration-specific concerns — use <code>angular-ssr-hydration-review</code> instead,</li>\n<li>recommending an app-wide zoneless migration — that is a dedicated architectural decision, not a PR-review fix.</li>\n</ul>\n<h2>Source priority (official Angular skills first)</h2>\n<p>Consult sources in this fixed order, and label findings by which layer they draw from:</p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>The official Angular team's <code>angular-developer</code> skill</strong> (<a href=\"https://github.com/angular/skills/tree/main/angular-developer\">github.com/angular/skills</a>) is the AUTHORITATIVE primary source for what is idiomatic Angular — Signals-first reactivity (<code>signal</code>/<code>computed</code>/<code>linkedSignal</code>/<code>resource</code>), modern control flow (<code>@if</code>/<code>@for</code>/<code>@switch</code>), standalone-by-default, <code>inject()</code> + <code>providedIn: 'root'</code> DI, and SSR/hydration strategy. Prefer its idioms over memory.</li>\n<li><strong>Context7 <code>angular_dev</code> docs</strong> (<code>/websites/angular_dev</code>, or the version-pinned <code>/websites/v20_angular_dev</code>) confirm those idioms against the repo's pinned <code>@angular/core</code> major (read <code>package.json</code> first). API/primitive availability is versioned — the official skill states the modern shape, the versioned docs confirm it applies to THIS repo's major.</li>\n<li><strong>This skill's static-review judgment</strong> (severity classification, <code>computed()</code> purity rules, effect-vs-derivation rules, injection-context and post-await-tracking checks, missed-OnPush and DI-ownership findings) is the review layer applied ON TOP of 1 and 2.</li>\n</ol>\n<p>Where guidance conflicts: the official Angular <code>angular-developer</code> skill + version-matched <code>angular_dev</code> docs WIN on \"what is idiomatic Angular\" (which primitive/API to use, current recommended shape). THIS skill governs \"what to flag in review\" (which deviations rise to a HIGH/MEDIUM/LOW finding and why). Never let this skill's flagging override an idiom the official skill and pinned docs endorse; conversely, an idiom being official does not exempt a concrete purity/effect/injection defect from being flagged.</p>\n<h2>Context7 Documentation Protocol</h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Resolve the Angular library ID with <code>resolve-library-id</code> (matched result: <code>/websites/angular_dev</code> or <code>/websites/v20_angular_dev</code> when the repo's confirmed major is pinned) before citing any Signals-, change-detection-, or DI-specific claim.</li>\n<li>Before asserting a <code>computed</code>/<code>effect</code>/<code>linkedSignal</code> usage is correct or incorrect, call <code>query-docs</code> against the repo's actual Angular major version (read <code>package.json</code> first — <code>@angular/core</code>) and cite the doc section. Signals stabilized incrementally across Angular v16-v20 and <code>linkedSignal</code> is a newer primitive; do not assume availability without confirming the version.</li>\n<li>If Context7 is unavailable, fall back to the <code>official_docs</code> URLs in this skill's <code>metadata.json</code> and label the claim <code>documentation-based, unverified against current release</code>.</li>\n<li>Never assume the latest Angular docs (e.g. <code>@Service</code> decorator preference noted for v22+, <code>provideZonelessChangeDetection</code>) apply to an older major present in the repo.</li>\n</ul>\n<h2>Lean operating rules</h2>\n<ul>\n<li>First read <code>package.json</code> to confirm the installed <code>@angular/core</code> major version. Do not make a Signals-API-availability claim (e.g. <code>linkedSignal</code>) without confirming the version supports it.</li>\n<li>Classify each reactive primitive in scope as <code>signal</code> (state), <code>computed</code> (derived, pure, memoized) or <code>effect</code> (side effect on non-reactive APIs) before evaluating it. Do not apply one correctness rule to all three uniformly.</li>\n<li><code>computed()</code> must be pure per Angular's own guidance (lazily evaluated and memoized). Any side effect inside a <code>computed()</code> callback (signal writes, DOM mutation, HTTP calls, logging) is a HIGH-severity purity violation, not a style note.</li>\n<li><code>effect()</code> exists for syncing signal state to imperative, non-reactive APIs (logging, <code>window.localStorage</code>, custom DOM behavior, third-party UI library sync) per Angular's documented use cases. An <code>effect()</code> that only derives and stores a value other state depends on is propagating state through a side-effect channel — Angular's own docs warn this risks <code>ExpressionChangedAfterItHasBeenChecked</code> errors, circular updates, and unnecessary change-detection cycles; recommend <code>computed()</code> or <code>linkedSignal()</code> instead.</li>\n<li><code>effect()</code> requires an injection context (component/directive/service constructor, or an explicit <code>Injector</code> passed via options). Flag any <code>effect()</code> call site that cannot resolve an injection context as a correctness bug, not a style preference.</li>\n<li>Signals read after an <code>await</code> inside an <code>effect()</code> lose reactive tracking (the reactive context does not survive the async boundary). Flag any effect that reads a signal post-await and expects it to be tracked as a dependency.</li>\n<li>Do not flag a component that stays at the default (non-OnPush) change-detection strategy as broken. Signals adoption without OnPush is a missed performance opportunity (MEDIUM), not a defect — verify the component doesn't rely on an implicit mutation-based update path that OnPush would break before recommending the switch.</li>\n<li>Do not recommend removing Zone.js or switching to zoneless (<code>provideZonelessChangeDetection</code>) as a review finding. That is an app-wide architectural decision requiring a dedicated migration plan.</li>\n<li>Treat services holding cross-cutting mutable state without a documented ownership model as a DI-boundary finding, but do not recommend a specific DI pattern (<code>providedIn: 'root'</code> singleton vs component-scoped provider) without confirming the actual sharing/lifetime requirement from the code in scope.</li>\n<li>Never execute, build, or run application code as part of this review; this is a static-review skill (Read/Grep/Glob only).</li>\n<li>Treat any hardcoded API key, token, or secret found in component/service state, default values, or example data as a HIGH-severity finding requiring immediate escalation, not a style note.</li>\n</ul>\n<h2>References</h2>\n<p>Load these only when needed:</p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"references/workflow-and-output.md\">Review workflow and findings contract</a> — use for the step-by-step review procedure, the effect-vs-computed decision tree, the OnPush escalation rule, and the required output shape.</li>\n<li><a href=\"references/linked-signal-and-di-boundaries.md\">linkedSignal and DI-boundary patterns</a> — load only when <code>linkedSignal</code> appears in the diff, or when the review scope includes service/DI ownership review.</li>\n</ul>\n<h2>Response minimum</h2>\n<p>Return, at minimum:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>the component(s)/service(s) and files in scope,</li>\n<li>ranked findings with file:line evidence, primitive-misuse category (purity violation / derivation-via-effect / injection-context error / untracked-post-await read / missed-OnPush-opportunity / DI-ownership gap), and a concrete fix sketch per finding,</li>\n<li>evidence level per finding (<code>repo evidence</code>, <code>documentation-based</code>, or <code>inference</code>),</li>\n<li>verdict (approve / approve-with-notes / block),</li>\n<li>open questions or explicitly out-of-scope items (e.g. zoneless migration flagged as out of scope, missing confirmed Angular major version).</li>\n</ul>\n","files":[{"path":"metadata.json","sizeBytes":1603,"isText":true},{"path":"references/linked-signal-and-di-boundaries.md","sizeBytes":6288,"isText":true},{"path":"references/workflow-and-output.md","sizeBytes":10527,"isText":true},{"path":"SKILL.md","sizeBytes":8561,"isText":true}],"reviewScore":null,"reviewSummary":null,"trust":{"provenance":"trusted-source-unreviewed","notice":"Community-authored content, reproduced verbatim and not vetted as instructions. 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