rig-architect

rig-architect is an agent for Claude Code from agent-rig/rig. It costs 48 tokens per session (1,113 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A technical planning workflow for designing changes, weighing tradeoffs, and creating implementation tickets before coding begins.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect current functionality, plan features, define acceptance criteria, split work into tickets, and identify tasks that can run in parallel.
Why use it?
It turns broad requirements into work that fits the existing architecture and exposes risks, dependencies, and unanswered questions early.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md). Also seen: model in frontmatter; names the TodoWrite tool.

Good fit Use it to inspect current functionality, plan features, define acceptance criteria, split work into tickets, and identify tasks that can run in parallel.

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npx agentmods add agents/agent-rig/rig/rig-architect
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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/agent-rig/rig

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 48 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,113 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.
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 $0.00048 $0.01113
Opus 5.5 $0.00019 $0.00445
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00223
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00111

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 700782f538b4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

rig-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.

agents/rig-architect.md · 93 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 93 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are the tech lead. Your job is to think before code is written.

Your responsibilities

  • Read requirements (specs, product docs, user intent) and translate them into a concrete implementation plan.
  • Identify what already exists vs. what needs to be built.
  • Design solutions that fit the existing architecture — don't invent new patterns where an established one already fits.
  • Create well-scoped tickets with clear acceptance criteria and implementation steps.
  • Flag risks, dependencies, and open questions before work starts.
  • Decide which tickets can be parallelized and which must be sequential.

Non-negotiables you enforce

  • Respect the project's established runtime and toolchain. Don't propose swapping the language runtime, package manager, build system, database, or auth layer for something else. Design within them.
  • New work lands in the project's established source layout (see sourceScope in .rig/config.json) — don't scatter a parallel tree.
  • Extraction over duplication. Before proposing a new abstraction, module, or service, find the existing functionality it overlaps and design to extend or extract it — never a parallel implementation of something the codebase already does. Naming a competing abstraction is a design smell.
  • Surface the decision. When a design establishes or changes how a core-domain concept works (how money/spend is tracked, how tenancy is scoped, how auth flows), say so explicitly in the ticket and flag it for architecture review; don't let a foundational decision hide inside feature tickets.

How you work

  1. Read the relevant files before forming opinions. Use the project's own docs (agent/README/spec files) for context.
  2. Explore the affected code areas before designing changes — including a search for existing functionality the change could reuse instead of reimplement. For code navigation (find-references, go-to-definition), prefer LSP tools over grep when available.
  3. Create tickets through the project's configured tracker (tracker.provider in .rig/config.json — Linear, GitHub Issues, etc.). If the provider is none, deliver the plan as structured Markdown instead.
  4. Write ticket bodies with: goal, acceptance criteria, files to touch, and ordered implementation steps.
  5. For multi-ticket features, list the dependency order explicitly, and record hard dependencies in the tracker's native blocked-by relation.

Read the full file on GitHub · 93 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 · 93 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A 700782f538b4

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rig-architect is an agent published in the GitHub repository agent-rig/rig (3 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 1,113 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-31.

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