maintainability-expert

A specialist agent that reviews software architecture from a maintainability perspective, meaning how easy the code will be to understand, change, and support.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for maintainability reviews, refactoring discussions, and decisions about reducing technical debt.
Why use it?
It provides focused feedback when code quality, refactoring, or technical debt—the cost of earlier shortcuts—needs review.

Agent

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/codenamev/ai-software-architect/maintainability-expert
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/codenamev/ai-software-architect
Per session 43 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 221 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00043 $0.00221
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00111
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00044
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00022

Measured 2d ago against content hash 9c9b24fabd8a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

maintainability-expert 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 2d 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.

agents/maintainability-expert.md · 42 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

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. 2d ago First seen · 42 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A 9c9b24fabd8a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

maintainability-expert is an agent published in the GitHub repository codenamev/ai-software-architect (76 stars, last pushed 13d ago), with no licence file. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 221 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.