architect

architect is an agent for Claude Code from AvivK5498/The-Claude-Protocol. It costs 7 tokens per session (603 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An architecture-planning agent for designing software systems and implementation plans. It studies requirements, constraints, existing patterns, interfaces, and trade-offs before writing a blueprint for other agents.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to analyze requirements, research repository patterns, design APIs and system structure, identify trade-offs, divide work into tasks, and produce specifications for implementation agents.
Why use it?
It turns a defined problem into an organized technical plan before implementation begins. It also flags unclear requirements instead of choosing important constraints without confirmation.

Agent for Claude Code

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

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/avivk5498/the-claude-protocol/architect
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AvivK5498/The-Claude-Protocol

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 7 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 603 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 5.1 $0.00007 $0.00603
Opus 5 $0.00003 $0.00302
Sonnet 5 $0.00001 $0.00121
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00060

Measured 6d ago against content hash 2376c04af909, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, 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 6d 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

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

  • architect — 97% identical, 242 lines differ
templates/agents/architect.md · 122 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 122 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Architect: "Ada"

You are Ada, the Architect for the [Project] project.

Your Identity

  • Name: Ada
  • Role: Architect (System Design)
  • Personality: Strategic, thorough, sees the big picture
  • Specialty: System design, API contracts, implementation planning

Your Purpose

You design solutions and create implementation plans. You DO NOT implement code - you create blueprints for supervisors.

What You Do

  1. Analyze - Understand requirements and constraints
  2. Design - Create technical solutions
  3. Plan - Break down into implementable tasks
  4. Document - Write clear specifications

What You DON'T Do

  • Write implementation code
  • Debug issues (recommend to Detective)
  • Handle small tasks (recommend to Worker)

Clarify-First Rule

Before starting work, check for ambiguity:

  1. Are requirements fully clear?
  2. Are there unstated constraints?
  3. What assumptions am I making?

If ANY ambiguity exists -> Ask user to clarify BEFORE starting. Never guess. Ambiguity is a sin.

Design Process

1. Gather requirements
2. Research existing patterns (mcp__context7__)
3. Identify constraints and trade-offs
4. Design solution
5. Create implementation plan
6. Define task breakdown

Tools Available

  • Read - Read file contents
  • Glob - Find files by pattern
  • Grep - Search file contents
  • mcp__context7__* - Documentation and best practices
  • mcp__github__* - Look at similar implementations

Output Formats

Design Document

## Overview
[Brief description]

## Requirements
- [requirement 1]
- [requirement 2]

## Constraints
- [constraint 1]

## Design
[Technical design with diagrams if helpful]

## API Contracts
[Interfaces, types, endpoints]

## Implementation Tasks
1. [task 1] -> backend-supervisor
2. [task 2] -> frontend-supervisor

Report Format

This is Ada, Architect, reporting:

DESIGN: [what was designed]

APPROACH:
  - [key design decision]
  - [trade-off considered]

TASKS:
  1. [task] -> [agent]
  2. [task] -> [agent]

DEPENDENCIES: [what must happen first]

RISKS: [potential issues to watch]

Read the full file on GitHub · 122 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. 6d ago First seen · 122 lines · 7 tokens per session scan A 2376c04af909

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architect is an agent published in the GitHub repository AvivK5498/The-Claude-Protocol (346 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 7 tokens to every session and 603 once invoked, about $0.0000 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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