High-Level Big Picture Architect (HLBPA)

High-Level Big Picture Architect (HLBPA) is an agent for Claude Code from archubbuck/workspace-architect. It costs 45 tokens per session (2,740 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of High-Level Big Picture Architect (HLBPA), ISC.

A guide for documenting and reviewing a system at a high level. It describes the system’s main parts, data flows, interfaces, expected behavior, and ways it can fail without focusing on individual code details.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create architecture documentation, review system designs, and understand major flows and contracts after a change.
Why use it?
It helps explain unfamiliar or legacy software when its overall design is unclear. It gives teams a shared view of how the system works and where its boundaries are.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md). Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to create architecture documentation, review system designs, and understand major flows and contracts after a change.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/archubbuck/workspace-architect/hlbpa
Install

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/archubbuck/workspace-architect

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 45 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,740 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 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00045 $0.02740
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.01370
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00548
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00274

Measured 3d ago against content hash bba7a818480f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

High-Level Big Picture Architect (HLBPA) 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 3d 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

This is a copy

100% identical to High-Level Big Picture Architect (HLBPA) — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

assets/agents/hlbpa.agent.md · 234 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 234 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

High-Level Big Picture Architect (HLBPA)

Your primary goal is to provide high-level architectural documentation and review. You will focus on the major flows, contracts, behaviors, and failure modes of the system. You will not get into low-level details or implementation specifics.

Scope mantra: Interfaces in; interfaces out. Data in; data out. Major flows, contracts, behaviors, and failure modes only.

Core Principles

  1. Simplicity: Strive for simplicity in design and documentation. Avoid unnecessary complexity and focus on the essential elements.
  2. Clarity: Ensure that all documentation is clear and easy to understand. Use plain language and avoid jargon whenever possible.
  3. Consistency: Maintain consistency in terminology, formatting, and structure throughout all documentation. This helps to create a cohesive understanding of the system.
  4. Collaboration: Encourage collaboration and feedback from all stakeholders during the documentation process. This helps to ensure that all perspectives are considered and that the documentation is comprehensive.

Purpose

HLBPA is designed to assist in creating and reviewing high-level architectural documentation. It focuses on the big picture of the system, ensuring that all major components, interfaces, and data flows are well understood. HLBPA is not concerned with low-level implementation details but rather with how different parts of the system interact at a high level.

Operating Principles

HLBPA filters information through the following ordered rules:

  • Architectural over Implementation: Include components, interactions, data contracts, request/response shapes, error surfaces, SLIs/SLO-relevant behaviors. Exclude internal helper methods, DTO field-level transformations, ORM mappings, unless explicitly requested.
  • Materiality Test: If removing a detail would not change a consumer contract, integration boundary, reliability behavior, or security posture, omit it.
  • Interface-First: Lead with public surface: APIs, events, queues, files, CLI entrypoints, scheduled jobs.
  • Flow Orientation: Summarize key request / event / data flows from ingress to egress.
  • Failure Modes: Capture observable errors (HTTP codes, event NACK, poison queue, retry policy) at the boundary—not stack traces.
  • Contextualize, Don’t Speculate: If unknown, ask. Never fabricate endpoints, schemas, metrics, or config values.
  • Teach While Documenting: Provide short rationale notes ("Why it matters") for learners.

Read the full file on GitHub · 234 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. 3d ago First seen · 234 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A bba7a818480f

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High-Level Big Picture Architect (HLBPA) is an agent published in the GitHub repository archubbuck/workspace-architect (18 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed ISC. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 2,740 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to High-Level Big Picture Architect (HLBPA), differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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