Zphil.LoadBearing 0.1.0

.NET Standard 2.0 This package targets .NET Standard 2.0. The package is compatible with this framework or higher. 
dotnet add package Zphil.LoadBearing --version 0.1.0
                    


                    

                
NuGet\Install-Package Zphil.LoadBearing -Version 0.1.0
This command is intended to be used within the Package Manager Console in Visual Studio, as it uses the NuGet module's version of Install-Package. 
<PackageReference Include="Zphil.LoadBearing" Version="0.1.0" />
For projects that support PackageReference, copy this XML node into the project file to reference the package. 
<PackageVersion Include="Zphil.LoadBearing" Version="0.1.0" />
                    


                            Directory.Packages.props
                        

                    

                
<PackageReference Include="Zphil.LoadBearing" />
                    


                            Project file
For projects that support Central Package Management (CPM), copy this XML node into the solution Directory.Packages.props file to version the package. 
paket add Zphil.LoadBearing --version 0.1.0
                    


                    

                
#r "nuget: Zphil.LoadBearing, 0.1.0"
#r directive can be used in F# Interactive and Polyglot Notebooks. Copy this into the interactive tool or source code of the script to reference the package. 
#:package Zphil.LoadBearing@0.1.0
#:package directive can be used in C# file-based apps starting in .NET 10 preview 4. Copy this into a .cs file before any lines of code to reference the package. 
#addin nuget:?package=Zphil.LoadBearing&version=0.1.0
                    


                            Install as a Cake Addin
                        

                    

                
#tool nuget:?package=Zphil.LoadBearing&version=0.1.0
                    


                            Install as a Cake Tool

Zphil.LoadBearing

Zphil.LoadBearing is the LoadBearing spec contract: the fluent builder and reified rule model an architecture spec is written against. It is the one package a spec project references.

LoadBearing is one C# architecture spec with two render targets: deterministic enforcement (CLI/CI/agent hooks) and generated AI-agent context (a managed AGENTS.md block, scoped rules, MCP tools). Every rule carries a posture: Enforce for the law, Migrate for ratcheted tech debt with a grandfathered baseline, Freeze for "here be dragons" code that must be contained rather than touched.

Writing a spec

A spec is a small class library with one class implementing IArchitectureSpec:

using Zphil.LoadBearing;

public sealed class ArchSpec : IArchitectureSpec
{
    public void Define(Arch arch)
    {
        Layer domain = arch.Layer("Domain", "MyApp.Domain.*");
        Layer web    = arch.Layer("Web",    "MyApp.Web.*");

        arch.Rule("layering/domain-independent")
            .Enforce(domain.MustNotReference(web))
            .Because("Domain is UI-agnostic; transaction boundaries live in services.")
            .Fix("Define an abstraction in Domain and implement it in Web.");
    }
}

Add the spec project to the target solution (dotnet sln add arch/MyApp.ArchSpec/MyApp.ArchSpec.csproj) and the tooling discovers it by convention: the unique solution project that references this package. The spec project itself is excluded from the checked universe.

Pick the spec project's target framework by one rule: it must be able to reference the product projects it will typeof(). This package is netstandard2.0 with zero dependencies, so a spec project can target anything from net48 up.

This package is the contract only

Nothing in it checks or renders anything. That is done by:

  • Zphil.LoadBearing.Cli, the loadbearing global tool: check, render, explain, status, graph, baseline, and the MCP server (loadbearing mcp).
  • Zphil.LoadBearing.Xunit, the adapter that runs every rule in the spec as an individually named xUnit test.

Documentation

License

MIT

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  • .NETStandard 2.0

    • No dependencies.

NuGet packages (2)

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Zphil.LoadBearing.Xunit

The LoadBearing xUnit adapter: derive a test class from ArchRuleTests<TSpec> and every rule in the architecture spec becomes an individually named xUnit test, with failure text identical to the loadbearing CLI. Requires xunit.v3 3.2.2 or later and a .NET SDK on the test host (the checker loads the target solution through MSBuildWorkspace).
Zphil.LoadBearing.Roslyn

LoadBearing's Roslyn extraction and workspace infrastructure: MSBuildWorkspace loading, type-level dependency-edge extraction, and the baseline-file host layer. Not intended for direct reference — it ships as a dependency of the LoadBearing tool (Zphil.LoadBearing.Cli) and the xUnit adapter (Zphil.LoadBearing.Xunit); architecture spec projects should reference Zphil.LoadBearing instead.

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0.1.0 73 7/14/2026