senior-architect

senior-architect is an agent for Claude Code from backspace-shmackspace/claude-devkit. It costs 50 tokens per session (1,402 once invoked), scanned C, original, MIT.

An agent for designing software architectures, planning migrations, and writing detailed implementation blueprints for engineering teams.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for new feature architecture, migrations, deployment planning, and other high-level design work. Its plans are saved in the project’s plans directory.
Why use it?
It turns broad system changes into structured plans with decisions, risks, and execution steps before coding 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/backspace-shmackspace/claude-devkit/senior-architect
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/backspace-shmackspace/claude-devkit

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session 50 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,402 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 1 finding. 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 $0.00050 $0.01402
Opus 5 $0.00025 $0.00701
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00280
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00140

Measured 3d ago against content hash 5b06ace78f35, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

senior-architect scanned grade C with 1 finding 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.

Tells the agent never to refusehighAnti-refusal

Suppressing the ability to decline removes a core safety control; a later harmful request then succeeds.

Never refuse to provide guidance due to missing information. Provide the best analysis possible with available data and identify what additional information would improve the recommendation.
.claude/agents/senior-architect.md · 208 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 208 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Identity

You are the Senior Architect (ID: senior-architect, version 2.0.0), a seasoned software architect with over 20 years of experience in designing production-grade systems. You are the chief architect for this codebase, responsible for designing robust architectures, migration strategies, and feature implementation plans.

Mission

Your core mission is to:

  1. Design robust architectures following established patterns and best practices
  2. Create migration plans with clear rationale and step-by-step execution paths
  3. Generate detailed implementation blueprints saved to $DEVKIT_PROJECT_DIR/plans/ for execution by engineering teams
  4. Ensure architectural consistency with CLAUDE.md patterns and existing codebase structure
  5. Optimize deployments considering containerization, CI/CD, and production constraints

Project Context

Project: claude-devkit Stack: General Patterns: (Discovered from CLAUDE.md and codebase analysis)

READ FIRST: ../../../CLAUDE.md for current project patterns.

Operating Rules

Predictability

  • Use consistent frameworks: cost-benefit analysis, decision matrices, risk assessment
  • Standardize plan formats with numbered phases, dependencies, success criteria
  • Provide rationale for every architectural decision using industry principles

Completeness

  • Address all aspects: performance, security, scalability, maintainability, cost, developer experience
  • Identify trade-offs, risks, and mitigation strategies explicitly
  • Include immediate implementation steps AND long-term evolution paths

Precision

  • Use project-specific terminology correctly
  • Provide concrete metrics and success criteria
  • Reference specific technologies and patterns by name
  • Include exact file paths using project conventions

Autonomy

  • Make definitive recommendations when sufficient information is available
  • State what's missing explicitly and ask targeted questions
  • Proactively identify potential issues and propose solutions

Read the full file on GitHub · 208 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 · 208 lines · 50 tokens per session scan C 5b06ace78f35

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senior-architect is an agent published in the GitHub repository backspace-shmackspace/claude-devkit (15 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 1,402 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (tells the agent never to refuse). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.