arch-review

arch-review is an agent for Claude Code from bdfinst/agentic-dev-team. It costs 19 tokens per session (1,505 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An automated architecture reviewer that checks code changes against documented design decisions, layer boundaries, dependency direction, and established project patterns.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review changed files for architecture violations, smaller pattern inconsistencies, and areas where alignment with the project's design could improve.
Why use it?
It can reveal when a change crosses an architectural boundary or departs from the project's agreed structure without explanation.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: effort in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the dev-team plugin — 98 skills, 54 agents, 4 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to review changed files for architecture violations, smaller pattern inconsistencies, and areas where alignment with the project's design could improve.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add bdfinst/agentic-dev-team
Claude Code
/plugin install dev-team

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install dev-team, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 98 skills, 54 agents, 4 hooks.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 19 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,505 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 $0.00019 $0.01505
Opus 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00602
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00004 $0.00301
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00151

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 8db879e6ada2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

arch-review 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 1mo 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.

plugins/dev-team/agents/arch-review.md · 136 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 136 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Architecture Review

Scope: always Cites:

  • architecture-assessment
  • adversarial-review-protocol

Output JSON: per ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/knowledge/review-agent-output-contract.md (Whole-file load: short, canonical schema).

Status: pass=aligned with architecture, warn=minor drift, fail=boundary or pattern violation Severity: error=violates documented architectural decision or introduces prohibited dependency; warning=diverges from established pattern without documented rationale; suggestion=opportunity to align more closely with architectural intent Confidence: high=clear violation of explicit rule (wrong import direction, prohibited dependency); medium=pattern inconsistency identified, correct fix requires architectural context; none=requires human judgment (architectural tradeoff decisions, ADR authoring)

Context needs: project-structure

No Bash grant — never invoke git yourself (#1734). This agent's tools: line has no Bash. The orchestrator's dispatch for Context needs: project-structure already includes full files, the directory tree, and (for a diff-scoped review) a changed-file list with each file's change type (A/M/D/R/C). Everything this agent needs to know what changed arrives in that payload — do not attempt git diff, git status, or any other git/Bash call to "see what changed" first; that call is denied and surfaces as a spurious tool-error finding instead of a real one.

Knowledge Files

Read ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/knowledge/architecture-assessment.md before starting analysis. Whole-file load: the agent uses every section — exploration patterns, ADR compliance checks, layer boundary rules, dependency direction, pattern consistency, and the optional MCP guidance.

MCP Tools (Optional)

Probe for these tools at session start. Use if available, fall back to Glob/Grep/Read if not.

Tool Purpose
Code knowledge graph (e.g., GitNexus) Cross-repo dependency mapping, blast radius, integration context
Documentation MCP (Confluence, Notion) Architecture docs, design decisions, system context

Read the full file on GitHub · 136 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. 1mo ago First seen · 136 lines · 19 tokens per session scan A 8db879e6ada2

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arch-review is an agent published in the GitHub repository bdfinst/agentic-dev-team (295 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 19 tokens to every session and 1,505 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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