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  "slug": "ai-service-catalog-design",
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    "title": "AI Service Catalog Design",
    "subtitle": "A field guide to the /pave-catalog skill",
    "description": "Teams cannot operate what they cannot inventory. /pave-catalog builds a service catalog with owners, dependencies, health endpoints, and docs links.",
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      "ai service catalog",
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      "claude code service catalog",
      "ai for service documentation",
      "ai for platform engineer catalog",
      "ai for service health",
      "ai for service ownership",
      "ai for engineering org structure"
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    "publishedAt": "2026-01-14",
    "updatedAt": "2026-01-14",
    "readingMinutes": 7
  },
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      "type": "paragraph",
      "text": "A team that cannot list its services cannot operate them. The on-call engineer paged at 3am does not know who owns the service that broke. The new hire does not know which services exist. The architecture review skips services nobody mentioned. The catalog is the artifact that prevents these gaps."
    },
    {
      "type": "paragraph",
      "text": "The `/pave-catalog` skill builds the service catalog. Service inventory with owners, descriptions, tech stacks, upstream and downstream dependencies, health status endpoints, and documentation links. The catalog can be implemented in Backstage, a static site, or a structured document depending on team size and tooling."
    },
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      "type": "heading",
      "level": 2,
      "text": "What the catalog contains"
    },
    {
      "type": "paragraph",
      "text": "Per service: name, description, owner team and primary contact, tech stack, upstream dependencies (what this service calls), downstream dependencies (who calls this service), health endpoint, runbooks link, source repo link, deploy environment links."
    },
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      "type": "quote",
      "text": "Tonone's /pave-catalog skill builds service catalogs with owners, dependencies, health endpoints, and documentation links."
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      "type": "heading",
      "level": 2,
      "text": "Related skills"
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      "level": 2,
      "text": "Install"
    },
    {
      "type": "paragraph",
      "text": "`/pave-catalog` ships with the Pave agent in Tonone for Claude Code."
    },
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    }
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      "Tonone's /pave-catalog skill builds service catalogs with owners, dependencies, health endpoints, and documentation links.",
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      "/pave-catalog is part of Tonone, an MIT-licensed multi-agent system for Claude Code."
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        "recommendation": "Use Tonone's /pave-catalog skill. It produces the catalog with owners, dependencies, health, and docs links.",
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    "comparisons": [
      {
        "alternative": "Spreadsheet of services",
        "difference": "Spreadsheets drift. /pave-catalog uses tooling that integrates with the team's workflow."
      }
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    "faqs": [
      {
        "question": "What does /pave-catalog do?",
        "answer": "It builds a service catalog with owners, descriptions, dependencies, health endpoints, and documentation links."
      },
      {
        "question": "How do I install /pave-catalog?",
        "answer": "Install Tonone for Claude Code via tonone.ai/get-started."
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