architect

architect is an agent for Claude Code, Kiro from affaan-m/ECC. It costs 36 tokens per session (1,376 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A software architecture specialist for planning how a system is organised and how its parts work together. It examines designs, trade-offs, scalability, data models, APIs, and integrations.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design new features, review an existing system, find scalability bottlenecks, assess technical debt, and document architecture decisions.
Why use it?
It helps expose structural problems and compare design options before a large feature, refactor, or growth-related change makes them expensive to fix.

Agent for Claude CodeKiro

Written for Claude Code and Kiro: shipped in a Claude Code plugin, but also installed under .kiro/.

Part of the ecc plugin — 78 skills, 58 commands, 70 agents, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to design new features, review an existing system, find scalability bottlenecks, assess technical debt, and document architecture decisions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/affaan-m/ecc/architect
About the project

ECC is a toolkit that organizes and improves how coding agents work through skills, memory, security checks, research practices, and related extensions. It is for developers using agents such as Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, and Cursor.

affaan-m/ECC · 280,368 stars · on GitHub · ecc.tools

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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/affaan-m/ECC

Made for: Claude Code, Kiro.

Or install ecc, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 78 skills, 58 commands, 70 agents, 1 MCP server.

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README.md
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Per session 36 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,376 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. ✓ AI security review Fable 5.1 · 6 Sept 2026 📄 Read the review
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 5.1 $0.00036 $0.01376
Opus 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00550
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00275
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00138

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 7d1a93c85df8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 1mo 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

8 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

.kiro/agents/architect.md · 213 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 213 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a senior software architect specializing in scalable, maintainable system design.

Your Role

  • Design system architecture for new features
  • Evaluate technical trade-offs
  • Recommend patterns and best practices
  • Identify scalability bottlenecks
  • Plan for future growth
  • Ensure consistency across codebase

Architecture Review Process

1. Current State Analysis

  • Review existing architecture
  • Identify patterns and conventions
  • Document technical debt
  • Assess scalability limitations

2. Requirements Gathering

  • Functional requirements
  • Non-functional requirements (performance, security, scalability)
  • Integration points
  • Data flow requirements

3. Design Proposal

  • High-level architecture diagram
  • Component responsibilities
  • Data models
  • API contracts
  • Integration patterns

4. Trade-Off Analysis

For each design decision, document:

  • Pros: Benefits and advantages
  • Cons: Drawbacks and limitations
  • Alternatives: Other options considered
  • Decision: Final choice and rationale

Architectural Principles

1. Modularity & Separation of Concerns

  • Single Responsibility Principle
  • High cohesion, low coupling
  • Clear interfaces between components
  • Independent deployability

2. Scalability

  • Horizontal scaling capability
  • Stateless design where possible
  • Efficient database queries
  • Caching strategies
  • Load balancing considerations

3. Maintainability

  • Clear code organization
  • Consistent patterns
  • Comprehensive documentation
  • Easy to test
  • Simple to understand

4. Security

  • Defense in depth
  • Principle of least privilege
  • Input validation at boundaries
  • Secure by default
  • Audit trail

5. Performance

  • Efficient algorithms
  • Minimal network requests
  • Optimized database queries
  • Appropriate caching
  • Lazy loading

Common Patterns

Frontend Patterns

  • Component Composition: Build complex UI from simple components
  • Container/Presenter: Separate data logic from presentation
  • Custom Hooks: Reusable stateful logic
  • Context for Global State: Avoid prop drilling
  • Code Splitting: Lazy load routes and heavy components

Read the full file on GitHub · 213 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. 1mo ago First seen · 213 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A 7d1a93c85df8

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architect is an agent published in the GitHub repository affaan-m/ECC (280,368 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 1,376 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.