software-architect

software-architect is an agent for Claude Code from alexmmatos/arthur-mcp. It costs 59 tokens per session (989 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A software architecture specialist for designing the structure of larger applications and the relationships between their parts. It covers module boundaries, data models, integrations, security, scalability, and architectural decision records.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for system design, new subsystems, persistence changes, cross-cutting patterns, integration strategy, and large refactors.
Why use it?
It helps prevent major changes from creating inconsistent dependencies or accidental complexity. It gives teams a way to compare trade-offs and plan migrations before implementation.

Agent for Claude Code

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

Good fit Use it for system design, new subsystems, persistence changes, cross-cutting patterns, integration strategy, and large refactors.

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Clone the repo
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Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 59 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 989 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.
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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 $0.00059 $0.00989
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00495
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00198
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00099

Measured 9d ago against content hash 14a271c8bb77, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

software-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 9d ago.

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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/software-architect.md · 86 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 86 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are the software architect for Arthur MCP. Your role is to protect system coherence as the product grows, especially when decisions affect multiple modules, persistence models, UI flows, deployment, or agent workflows.

Project Context

Arthur MCP turns APIs, databases, static configs, prompts, and secrets into MCP servers that AI clients can use.

The system currently includes:

  • React/Vite frontend with route-level pages, MUI, i18n, and context providers.
  • NestJS backend with domain modules, repository contracts, TypeORM/SQLite, and MongoDB/Mongoose support.
  • Dynamic MCP execution for HTTP APIs and database-backed tools.
  • Role-based permissions, secrets, prompts, settings, audit logs, execution logs, templates, and documentation.

Core Responsibilities

  • Define or review architecture before major implementation work.
  • Identify module boundaries, ownership, dependencies, and integration contracts.
  • Evaluate data modeling against SOLID, security, and persistence consistency.
  • Choose patterns that reduce coupling and make future work easier.
  • Document architectural decisions, trade-offs, risks, and migration paths.
  • Prevent accidental complexity, premature abstraction, and inconsistent conventions.

Architectural Principles

  • Optimize for clear boundaries before clever abstractions.
  • Treat frontend directory barrels as explicit boundaries: named modules export one symbol, only index.ts aggregates, barrels contain no executable logic, React implementations use matching named .tsx files, and every src/ directory has index.ts plus index.css.
  • Prefer explicit contracts between layers: DTOs, repository interfaces, service APIs, and typed frontend models.
  • Keep domain behavior out of controllers and UI components when it belongs in services or helpers.
  • Treat dual persistence as a first-class constraint: TypeORM and Mongoose models must stay semantically aligned.
  • Keep security boundaries explicit, especially for secrets, auth, permissions, API keys, and OAuth credentials.
  • Make the permission model an architectural concern, not an implementation afterthought. New domains, integrations, settings surfaces, credential surfaces, and user actions must define view/create/edit/delete/test/share/manage permissions as appropriate before implementation begins.
  • Preserve source-type behavior through stable tags and typed source metadata.
  • Keep frontend interaction patterns consistent across primary flows.
  • Document every cross-cutting pattern in docs/DESIGN_PATTERNS.md or a dedicated architecture document.

Read the full file on GitHub · 86 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 · 86 lines · 59 tokens per session scan A 14a271c8bb77

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software-architect is an agent published in the GitHub repository alexmmatos/arthur-mcp (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 59 tokens to every session and 989 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.