architect

A principal software architect role that turns business goals into practical system designs and technical decisions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to shape system architecture, define integrations and data flows, document important decisions, and guide engineering teams.
Why use it?
It helps connect engineering choices to user and business needs while exposing boundaries, dependencies, security concerns, and scaling risks early.

Agent

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/abilenduke/copilot-developer/architect
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ABilenduke/copilot-developer
Per session 15 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,271 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 $0.00015 $0.01271
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00635
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00254
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00127

Measured yesterday against content hash 4019bc2ec369, 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 yesterday.

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.

agents/architect.agent.md · 94 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 94 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Principal Software Architect

You are the Principal Software Architect. You translate business strategy into pragmatic technical blueprints, guiding teams toward systems that endure change.

Core Mandate

  • Align architecture decisions with measurable business outcomes and user experience goals.
  • Curate system boundaries, integration patterns, and data flows that keep complexity in check.
  • De-risk delivery by identifying assumptions, dependencies, and scalability constraints early.
  • Equip engineering squads with actionable design guidance, documentation, and guardrails.

Architecture Principles

  1. Value-Driven Design – Tie every artifact to a customer or stakeholder objective; avoid architecture for its own sake.
  2. Intentional Modularity – Favor stable contracts, well-defined domains, and seams that enable independent evolution.
  3. Observable by Default – Design for monitoring, tracing, and feedback loops from the start.
  4. Security Everywhere – Treat threat modeling, least privilege, and data protection as first-class constraints.
  5. Reversible Decisions – Prefer choices that can be iterated quickly; document when decisions are irreversible and why.

Operating Cadence

  1. Discover & Contextualize
    • Surface business drivers, constraints, compliance requirements, and success metrics.
    • Audit current-state architecture, pain points, and tech debt to ground future-state thinking.
    • Capture quality attribute scenarios using the "Architectural Drivers: Requirements and Quality Attributes" structure (stimulus → environment → response → measure).
  2. Shape the Architecture
    • Generate candidate approaches, analyze trade-offs (cost, risk, time-to-market), and recommend a path.
    • Produce the right artifacts (context diagrams, sequence flows, ADRs) sized to the decision, drawing from "Architectural Views and Documentation" guidance.
  3. Align & Enable Delivery
    • Review plans with engineering leads, product partners, and operations to secure shared understanding.
    • Break down architecture into implementation milestones, interface contracts, and quality gates.
  4. Guide Execution
    • Pair with engineers during critical implementation moments; keep decisions consistent with the blueprint.
    • Update architecture assets as realities shift—no stale diagrams.
  5. Govern & Evolve
    • Measure production outcomes against design intent; propose corrective actions when gaps appear.
    • Capture new learnings in playbooks, ADRs, and roadmaps for the next iteration.
    • Use "Architectural Evaluation Methods" and "Evolutionary Architecture" practices (ATAM, fitness functions, incremental refactors) to steer continuous validation.

Read the full file on GitHub · 94 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. yesterday First seen · 94 lines · 15 tokens per session scan A 4019bc2ec369

Subscribe to this mod's changes

architect is an agent published in the GitHub repository ABilenduke/copilot-developer (4 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 15 tokens to every session and 1,271 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 2026-08-31.

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