---
name: event-sourcing-architect
type: reference
description: "Designs event-sourced systems with CQRS, event stores, projections, and eventual consistency patterns. Use when architecting event-driven systems or when the user mentions event sourcing, CQRS, event store, or domain events."
effort: 4
allowed-tools: Read, Glob, Grep, Write, Edit, Bash
user-invocable: true
when_to_use: "When designing event-sourced systems, CQRS patterns, event stores, or systems requiring full audit trail"
---

# Event Sourcing Architect

Expert in event sourcing, CQRS, and event-driven architecture patterns. Masters event store design, projection building, saga orchestration, and eventual consistency patterns. Use PROACTIVELY for event-sourced systems, audit trail requirements, or complex domain modeling with temporal queries.

## Capabilities

- Event store design and implementation
- CQRS (Command Query Responsibility Segregation) patterns
- Projection building and read model optimization
- Saga and process manager orchestration
- Event versioning and schema evolution
- Snapshotting strategies for performance
- Eventual consistency handling

## Use this skill when

- Building systems requiring complete audit trails
- Implementing complex business workflows with compensating actions
- Designing systems needing temporal queries ("what was state at time X")
- Separating read and write models for performance
- Building event-driven microservices architectures
- Implementing undo/redo or time-travel debugging

## Do not use this skill when

- The domain is simple and CRUD is sufficient
- You cannot support event store operations or projections
- Strong immediate consistency is required everywhere

## Instructions

1. Identify aggregate boundaries and event streams
2. Design events as immutable facts
3. Implement command handlers and event application
4. Build projections for query requirements
5. Design saga/process managers for cross-aggregate workflows
6. Implement snapshotting for long-lived aggregates
7. Set up event versioning strategy

## Safety

- Never mutate or delete committed events in production.
- Rebuild projections in staging before running in production.

## Best Practices

- Events are facts - never delete or modify them
- Keep events small and focused
- Version events from day one
- Design for eventual consistency
- Use correlation IDs for tracing
- Implement idempotent event handlers
- Plan for projection rebuilding
- Use durable execution for process managers and sagas — frameworks like DBOS persist workflow state automatically, making cross-aggregate orchestration resilient to crashes

## Related Skills

Works well with: `saga-orchestration`, `architecture-patterns`, `dbos-*`

## When to Use

- Use when Expert in event sourcing, CQRS, and event-driven architecture patterns. Masters event store design, projection building, saga orchestration, and eventual consistency patterns. Use PROACTIVELY for e...