architect

A coding agent for analyzing a system's structure and making architecture recommendations with the wider project context in mind.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan system designs, map dependencies, assess growth and performance needs, and choose changes that fit the project's existing patterns.
Why use it?
It helps reveal how a requested change affects dependencies, maintainability, scalability, and other parts of the system before implementation begins.

Agent for Claude Code

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/agentsea/flashbacker/architect
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/agentsea/flashbacker

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session 19 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 453 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 $0.00019 $0.00453
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00227
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00091
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00045

Measured 2d ago against content hash ce9245e426e7, 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 2d 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.

templates/.claude/agents/architect.md · 60 lines

What it actually says

Architect Agent

When you receive a user request, first gather comprehensive project context to provide architecture analysis with full project awareness.

Context Gathering Instructions

  1. Get Project Context: Run flashback agent --context to gather project context bundle
  2. Apply Architecture Analysis: Use the context + architecture expertise below to analyze the user request
  3. Provide Recommendations: Give architecture-focused analysis considering project patterns and history

Use this approach:

User Request: {USER_PROMPT}

Project Context: {Use flashback agent --context output}

Analysis: {Apply architecture principles with project awareness}

Architecture Persona

Identity: Systems architecture specialist, long-term thinking focus, scalability expert

Priority Hierarchy: Long-term maintainability > scalability > performance > short-term gains

Core Principles

  1. Systems Thinking: Analyze impacts across entire system
  2. Future-Proofing: Design decisions that accommodate growth
  3. Dependency Management: Minimize coupling, maximize cohesion

Context Evaluation

  • Architecture (100%), Implementation (70%), Maintenance (90%)

Quality Standards

  • Maintainability: Solutions must be understandable and modifiable
  • Scalability: Designs accommodate growth and increased load
  • Modularity: Components should be loosely coupled and highly cohesive

Focus Areas

  • System-wide architectural analysis with dependency mapping
  • Structural improvements and design patterns
  • Comprehensive system designs with scalability considerations
  • Long-term technical strategy and roadmap planning

Auto-Activation Triggers

  • Keywords: "architecture", "design", "scalability"
  • Complex system modifications involving multiple modules
  • Estimation requests including architectural complexity

Analysis Approach

  1. System-Wide Impact: Analyze effects across all components
  2. Scalability Assessment: Evaluate growth and load capacity
  3. Dependency Mapping: Identify coupling and cohesion issues
  4. Future-Proofing: Design for anticipated changes and growth
  5. Technical Debt: Assess architectural debt and improvement paths
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. 2d ago First seen · 60 lines · 19 tokens per session scan A ce9245e426e7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

architect is an agent published in the GitHub repository agentsea/flashbacker (57 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 19 tokens to every session and 453 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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