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Blueprint

Blueprint is the set of open tools I build for architects: a capability catalog you can import, a canvas that knows CSDM, skills your AI agent can run, and a starter for a knowledge base that maintains itself. Free, open data and open source, each on its own address.

The pieces

  • 01The data

    Blueprint Catalog

    Business capabilities by industry, value streams, products and the capabilities they realize, patterns, standards and technology end-of-life dates. Pages, a JSON API, exports for ServiceNow, LeanIX, Ardoq and ArchiMate, and a read-only MCP server.

    Release 0.39.0, the version this site's Technology and Toolbox pages read

    CC BY 4.0The project

  • 02The canvas

    Blueprint Modeler

    A browser-only canvas for sketching application architecture the CSDM way. It offers only the relationships the model allows, flags common gaps as you draw, and exports JSON, SVG, ArchiMate, draw.io or a ServiceNow import sheet. No sign-up, no server.

    Every diagram on this site opens in it

    MITThe project

  • 03For your agent

    Skills

    Step-by-step procedures an AI coding agent can run: map applications to capabilities, compare product coverage, check a stack's end-of-life dates, write a decision record that cites its patterns. One install command each.

    11 original skills, with the curated ones alongside

    MIT and CC BY 4.0The AI Library

  • 04The starter

    solvent-brain

    A starter for an architecture knowledge base an AI agent maintains: an operating contract, a wiki with a metamodel, templates, session-close routines and integrity checks. Clone it, point an agent at it, and it keeps the vault honest.

    The method behind the AI knowledge-base posts

    MITThe write-up

How they fit

  1. The Catalog holds the shared vocabulary: capabilities, value streams, products, patterns and standards, each with a stable id.
  2. The Modeler is where a design gets drawn against that vocabulary, with the CSDM rules checked as you go.
  3. The Skills let an AI agent do the routine parts, mapping applications to capabilities or checking a stack's end-of-life dates, against the same ids.
  4. solvent-brain is where the results live: a knowledge base an agent keeps consistent between sessions.

Everything is Mike's own work. The catalog content is CC BY 4.0; the code is MIT. Nothing here comes from an employer or a client. Questions and ideas: get in touch.