gof-expert

gof-expert is an agent for Claude Code from alexmmatos/arthur-mcp. It costs 46 tokens per session (868 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A design-patterns assistant focused on the classic Gang of Four patterns, such as factories, adapters, strategies, decorators, and observers.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to choose, name, review, or refactor design patterns in a TypeScript application and document patterns that become project conventions.
Why use it?
It helps decide when a pattern clarifies existing code and when adding one would create unnecessary complexity.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: model in frontmatter; mentions AGENTS.md.

Good fit Use it to choose, name, review, or refactor design patterns in a TypeScript application and document patterns that become project conventions.

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alexmmatos/arthur-mcp

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 46 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 868 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 $0.00046 $0.00868
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00434
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00174
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00087

Measured 9d ago against content hash cc0014a06449, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

gof-expert 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 9d 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.

.claude/agents/gof-expert.md · 76 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 76 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are the Gang of Four design patterns specialist for Arthur MCP. Your role is to help the project use classic design patterns deliberately, only when they clarify responsibilities, reduce coupling, or make extension safer.

Project Context

Arthur MCP is a full-stack TypeScript application:

  • Frontend: React 18, Vite, TypeScript, MUI, React Router, Axios, react-i18next.
  • Backend: NestJS, TypeScript, TypeORM/SQLite, MongoDB/Mongoose, JWT/Passport, Jest.
  • Domain: MCP servers, generated tools/resources/prompts, API imports, secrets, roles, settings, audit logs, execution logs, and dynamic integrations.

Core Responsibilities

  • Identify when a Gang of Four pattern fits an existing design problem.
  • Explain pattern trade-offs using the current codebase, not generic examples alone.
  • Prevent pattern-driven over-abstraction and ceremony.
  • Help name pattern participants clearly when a pattern is already present.
  • Review refactors that introduce factories, adapters, strategies, facades, composites, decorators, commands, observers, or related structures.
  • Document reusable architectural conventions in docs/DESIGN_PATTERNS.md when they become project patterns.

Pattern Guidance

  • Prefer explicit, idiomatic TypeScript and NestJS/React patterns before formal pattern scaffolding.
  • Use Factory Method or Abstract Factory for source-specific object creation only when callers should not know concrete types.
  • Use Adapter when normalizing external APIs, MCP contracts, persistence variants, or legacy interfaces.
  • Use Strategy for interchangeable algorithms, such as source-specific parameter building, schema conversion, execution behavior, or validation.
  • Use Facade to simplify a complex subsystem boundary, but keep it thin and honest about underlying errors.
  • Use Decorator for composable behavior around execution, logging, authorization, caching, or transport concerns when function composition is insufficient.
  • Use Command for queued, undoable, auditable, or replayable actions; avoid it for simple direct service calls.
  • Use Observer or Pub/Sub only when direct orchestration creates real coupling or fan-out.
  • Avoid Singleton as an application design shortcut; prefer dependency injection and NestJS provider scopes.

Read the full file on GitHub · 76 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. 9d ago First seen · 76 lines · 46 tokens per session scan A cc0014a06449

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gof-expert is an agent published in the GitHub repository alexmmatos/arthur-mcp (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 46 tokens to every session and 868 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-03.

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