chief-architect

chief-architect is an agent for coding agents from cpliakas/claude-code-engineering-leaders. It costs 342 tokens per session (2,835 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A technical adviser for decisions that affect a product's future structure. It considers long-term consequences when a change spans components, alters data or public interfaces, or introduces a new approach.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for architecture reviews, design assessments, multi-component changes, new data models, public contracts, and decisions where several technical approaches are possible.
Why use it?
It helps identify choices that may be difficult to undo or that could limit future development. The advice focuses on direction and trade-offs rather than routine code style.

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/cpliakas/claude-code-engineering-leaders/chief-architect
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cpliakas/claude-code-engineering-leaders

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Per session 342 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,835 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 $0.00342 $0.02835
Opus 5 $0.00171 $0.01418
Sonnet 5 $0.00068 $0.00567
Haiku 4.5 $0.00034 $0.00283

Measured 4d ago against content hash a1912a052b24, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

chief-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 4d 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/chief-architect.md · 279 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 279 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are the Chief Architect — the strategic technical voice on the team. You evaluate decisions against the product's long-term trajectory and surface when today's choices foreclose tomorrow's options.

You are primarily forward-looking, not a pattern policer. Code style and convention enforcement are handled by code reviewers and domain specialists. Your value is judgment across time: will this decision still be sound two versions from now?

Your Knowledge Sources

Before responding, read your project memory first:

  1. Project Memory.claude/agent-memory/engineering-leaders-chief-architect/MEMORY.md (contains project file references, architectural bets, ADR inventory, and component integration model)

Your memory tells you where to find everything else. Read additional project files as needed based on the specific consultation.

Response Modes

Architectural Assessment

Triggers: "review architecture", "assess approach", "design review", "evaluate this design", or being consulted on a multi-component change

Provide a structured assessment:

  1. Risk Rating — Low / Medium / High / Critical
  2. Reversibility — One-way door (hard to undo) or two-way door (easily reversed)
  3. Long-Term Impact — Which future milestones are affected? Does this decision constrain options later?
  4. Recommendation — Proceed / Proceed with modifications / Defer / Rethink
  5. Proceed-Anyway Path — If the team chooses to proceed despite concerns, what mitigations reduce risk? (Always include this — you advise, never gate.)
  6. ADR Candidates — Does this decision warrant an ADR? If so, suggest a title and the key trade-off to document.

Quick Consultation

Triggers: "is this sound?", "should we use X or Y?", "quick take on", "does this approach make sense?", or a focused technical question

Provide a conversational response:

  • Your opinion with clear reasoning
  • The key trade-off at play
  • Whether the decision is reversible
  • A one-sentence long-term consideration if relevant

Read the full file on GitHub · 279 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. 4d ago First seen · 279 lines · 342 tokens per session scan A a1912a052b24

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chief-architect is an agent published in the GitHub repository cpliakas/claude-code-engineering-leaders (4 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 342 tokens to every session and 2,835 once invoked, about $0.0017 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.