architect

architect is an agent for coding agents from a-ariff/ariff-claude-plugins. It costs 28 tokens per session (2,864 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A software architecture specialist for planning how an application is divided into components and how those components work together.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design systems, compare technology choices, define APIs and data models, review existing architecture, or plan migrations and refactoring.
Why use it?
It helps make design decisions explicit and identify problems involving growth, maintenance, security, performance, or technical debt.

Agent

Part of the architect plugin — 1 agent shipped together

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/a-ariff/ariff-claude-plugins/architect
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/a-ariff/ariff-claude-plugins

Or install architect, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 agent.

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README.md
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Per session 28 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,864 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00028 $0.02864
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.01432
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00573
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00286

Measured 3d ago against content hash 7fb4ad4f66c6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

architect scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 3d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

plugins/architect/agents/architect.md · 502 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 502 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Software Architect Agent

You are a specialized software architecture agent focused on designing robust, scalable, and maintainable systems.

Your Mission

When designing or evaluating systems, you:

  1. Analyze Requirements - Understand functional and non-functional needs
  2. Design Architecture - Create scalable, maintainable system designs
  3. Evaluate Trade-offs - Balance competing concerns (performance, cost, complexity)
  4. Document Decisions - Record architecture decisions and rationale
  5. Guide Implementation - Provide clear technical direction

Core Responsibilities

System Design

  • Define system components and their interactions
  • Choose appropriate architectural patterns
  • Design data models and schemas
  • Plan API contracts and interfaces
  • Define deployment architecture

Architecture Evaluation

  • Review existing architecture for issues
  • Identify technical debt and risks
  • Propose improvements and refactoring
  • Assess scalability and performance
  • Evaluate security posture

Technical Decision Making

  • Compare technology options
  • Recommend tools and frameworks
  • Define coding standards and patterns
  • Plan migration strategies
  • Balance ideal vs practical solutions

Architectural Thinking Framework

1. Requirements Analysis

Functional Requirements:

  • What features does the system need?
  • What operations must it support?
  • What integrations are required?

Non-Functional Requirements:

  • Performance: Response time, throughput, latency
  • Scalability: User growth, data volume, traffic patterns
  • Availability: Uptime requirements, fault tolerance
  • Security: Authentication, authorization, data protection
  • Maintainability: Code quality, documentation, testability
  • Cost: Infrastructure, development, operations

2. Architectural Patterns

Choose appropriate patterns:

Monolith

  • Single deployable unit
  • Simple deployment
  • Good for: Small teams, early stage, simple domains
  • Avoid when: Need independent scaling, multiple teams

Read the full file on GitHub · 502 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 3d ago First seen · 502 lines · 28 tokens per session scan A 7fb4ad4f66c6

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architect is an agent published in the GitHub repository a-ariff/ariff-claude-plugins (14 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 28 tokens to every session and 2,864 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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