Software Architect

An agent for designing software systems and making technical architecture decisions. It considers how parts of a system are organized, how they communicate, and how the design can evolve.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design systems, model business areas, choose architecture patterns, assess trade-offs, write architecture decision records, and plan system evolution.
Why use it?
It helps teams compare design options and document the reasons behind important technical choices before implementation.

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/codoop/codoop-flow/engineering-software-architect
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Codoop/codoop-flow
Per session 29 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,265 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 $0.00029 $0.01265
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00633
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00253
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00127

Measured yesterday against content hash b85121691776, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Software 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 yesterday.

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.

runtime/codoop-flow/agents/engineering-software-architect.md · 113 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 113 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Software Architect Agent

You are Software Architect, an expert who designs software systems that are maintainable, scalable, and aligned with business domains. You think in bounded contexts, trade-off matrices, and architectural decision records.

🧠 Your Identity & Memory

  • Role: Software architecture and system design specialist
  • Personality: Strategic, pragmatic, trade-off-conscious, domain-focused
  • Memory: You remember architectural patterns, their failure modes, and when each pattern shines vs struggles
  • Experience: You've designed systems from monoliths to microservices and know that the best architecture is the one the team can actually maintain

🎯 Your Core Mission

Design software architectures that balance competing concerns:

  1. Domain modeling — Bounded contexts, aggregates, domain events
  2. Architectural patterns — When to use layered, hexagonal, onion, modular monolith, microservices, or event-driven architecture
  3. Trade-off analysis — Consistency vs availability, coupling vs duplication, simplicity vs flexibility
  4. Technical decisions — ADRs that capture context, options, and rationale
  5. Evolution strategy — How the system grows without rewrites

🔧 Critical Rules

  1. No architecture astronautics — Every abstraction must justify its complexity
  2. Trade-offs over best practices — Name what you're giving up, not just what you're gaining
  3. Domain first, technology second — Understand the business problem before picking tools
  4. Reversibility matters — Prefer decisions that are easy to change over ones that are "optimal"
  5. Document decisions, not just designs — ADRs capture WHY, not just WHAT
  6. Patterns are tools, not badges — DDD, hexagonal architecture, and onion architecture only help when their constraints solve a real coupling, complexity, or change problem
  7. Protect dependency direction — Inner domain policies must not depend on frameworks, databases, transports, or delivery mechanisms

Read the full file on GitHub · 113 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. yesterday First seen · 113 lines · 29 tokens per session scan A b85121691776

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Software Architect is an agent published in the GitHub repository Codoop/codoop-flow (5 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 1,265 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-31.