Writing

Community 3 May 2026

Wanted: /arckit:build recipes for your jurisdiction

Three recipes ship with v4.13.1: uk-saas, uk-mod-sovereign, uae-federal-ai. That's roughly 0.5 per cent of the world's public sectors. EU, Australia, Canada, Germany, France, Singapore — your jurisdiction's recipe could ship with v4.14. And a separate category: Big 4 / MBB / system integrator firm-style governance bundles (mckinsey-arch, deloitte-arch, pwc-tech, …) — composition, not endorsement.

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Release 3 May 2026

ArcKit v4.13.0: The Build Harness — Building a full architecture in one Claude Code session. AKA The GDS Harness

A new /arckit:build command orchestrates parallel /arckit:* artefact generation via subagent isolation. YAML recipes drive the wave plan, state.json makes the run resumable, and the validate-arc-filename hook handles path allocation. Thirty-one artefacts in under thirty minutes, one git commit per wave.

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Essay 3 May 2026

I have saved the UK economy £24 billion. ArcKit is the third time.

G-Cloud saved the UK around £12bn in procurement. The UN Global Platform saved another £12bn through real-time COVID economic indicators fed to the Treasury and Bank of England. The same playbook applied to enterprise architecture is the next £12bn.

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Essay 1 May 2026

Internal Memo, Somewhere in a Big 4 Consulting Company

A fictional partner-group memo on a £680k Phase 0 bid lost to two civil servants and a contractor with a long weekend and ArcKit. What the in-house pack contained, why it was good enough, and what the practice should do about it.

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Release 30 April 2026

ArcKit v4.10: 12 UAE Federal Commands, Community Overlay

Twelve community-contributed commands covering the UAE federal regulatory and digital-government stack. The release walkthrough: PDPL, IAS, sovereign cloud residency, UAE Pass, the four Cabinet instruments, AI Charter, autonomy tier, federal procurement. Solo-maintained today; recruiting a UAE domain co-maintainer before any official-tier promotion.

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Essay 30 April 2026

How ArcKit v4.10 Accelerates the UAE's Federal Agentic Decree

Policy-audience essay mapping the 23 April Cabinet decree, the four governance instruments, and the federal regulatory baseline directly onto the 12 new uae-* commands. One command per instrument; eight more for the federal baseline; two for AI governance; one for procurement.

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Guide 30 April 2026

The CAIO's First 90 Days: Delivering the UAE Cabinet Agentic AI Mandate

For UAE Chief AI Officers under the Cabinet's two-year deadline: what to produce, what timeline is achievable, what team and budget you will need, and what architecture stack the artefacts have to fit. Concrete week-one actions and a credible cadence to month twenty-four.

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Guide 30 April 2026

The UAE Agentic Decree: A 90-Day ArcKit Playbook

Command-by-command, calendar-anchored playbook for the first ninety days under the UAE Cabinet's agentic decree. The acceleration ledger comparing conventional architect-weeks against ArcKit-weeks per artefact, with the working that makes the two-year deadline arithmetically possible.

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Essay 30 April 2026

The Toolkit Drafts. The Architect Judges.

Why the architect's working day under agentic tooling shifts from drafting to judging, what that does to the architect-to-engineer ratio, and the two failure modes that quietly defeat the productivity case if the calibration is wrong.

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Essay 28 April 2026

Pricing the ArcKit Project: What Would an Investor Actually Pay?

A defensible valuation range for ArcKit today: ~£20m for a financial investor, ~£80m for a strategic acquirer, with the working from comparables (Vanta, Drata, OneTrust, HashiCorp) shown in full.

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Essay 27 April 2026

From ArcKit to McKinsey-Style Infographics in an Afternoon

AntV Infographic and the end of the £200k visual wrap: how ArcKit artifacts become action-titled, Pyramid-Principle decks without the partner-rate consulting layer.

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Guide 22 April 2026

The Five Wardley Commands in ArcKit

A command-by-command walkthrough of ArcKit's Wardley Mapping suite: value-chain, wardley, doctrine, climate, and gameplay — what each does, when to run it, and how they chain.

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Release 22 April 2026

ArcKit 4.9.0: Wardley Maps Render Natively

Mermaid 11.14.0 brings a wardley-beta diagram type, and ArcKit adopts it everywhere. 100% conversion fidelity across 147 real-world maps, zero evolution drift.

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Essay 20 April 2026

How ArcKit Is Quietly Destroying a Billion-Pound Consulting Business

For twenty years UK public-sector transformation has run on a Big 4 / MBB engine that ships a £250k–£2m PDF six months later. ArcKit makes the pipeline that produced it unnecessary — not the work itself, the pipeline.

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Release 20 April 2026

What You Can Now Do in Austria with ArcKit v4.8

Three Austrian regulatory commands: DSG / DSGVO assessment, NISG (NIS2) compliance, and BVergG 2018 procurement documentation — a community-maintained overlay.

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Release 19 April 2026

ArcKit v4.7: 18 EU and French Regulatory Commands

A community-contributed overlay covering GDPR, NIS2, DORA, EU AI Act, CRA, DSA plus French ANSSI, CNIL, and the aDRI IRN self-assessment.

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Milestone 19 April 2026

Why an EA Toolkit is Trending on GitHub in 2026

Notes on the day ArcKit hit GitHub Trending, what drove it, and what it signals about enterprise architecture tooling in the AI era.

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Release 7 April 2026

Finding UK Funding for Public Sector Projects

How the /arckit.grants command automates UK grant research, innovation funding, and accelerator discovery directly from your architecture context.

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ArcKit v4.6.4

Release 7 April 2026

Automated UK Funding Research with the Grants Command

A technical look at the /arckit.grants command: how the agent discovers funding sources, scores relevance, and generates the GRNT artefact.

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Release 23 March 2026

Discovering What Government Has Already Built

Three new commands for UK public-sector code reuse using the govreposcrape MCP server: gov-reuse, gov-code-search, and gov-landscape.

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Technical 18 March 2026

Building ClaudeClaw: Autonomous Agents on Claude Code

Engineering notes on building an OpenClaw-style autonomous agent system on top of Claude Code — agent orchestration, memory, and tool routing.

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Release 16 March 2026

ArcKit v4.3.0: Complete Wardley Mapping Suite

A five-command pipeline for AI-assisted strategic architecture, distilled from three Wardley Mapping books and 1M+ words of primary source material.

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Release 12 March 2026

Your Architecture Documents Are Connected

ArcKit now auto-generates an interactive map showing how your requirements, stakeholders, risks, ADRs, and decisions relate across the artefact chain.

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Release 11 March 2026

ArcKit v4.1.1: Copilot, Vendor Scoring, Blast Radius

GitHub Copilot extension, weighted vendor-scoring across procurement criteria, and blast-radius analysis for architecture decisions.

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Release 8 March 2026

ArcKit v4: First-Class Codex and Gemini Support

The v4 release adds native extensions for Codex CLI and Gemini CLI with hooks, MCP servers, policies, and a redesigned converter pipeline.

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Community

Community 28 February 2026

The People Behind ArcKit

How open-source contributors are shaping enterprise-architecture tooling, and how to get involved yourself.

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ArcKit v2.16.3

Release 28 February 2026

ArcKit Recommends Claude Code v2.1.63+

Why the plugin now recommends the latest Claude Code runtime, and what changed in the baseline capability set.

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