architect-review

architect-review is an agent for Claude Code from davepoon/buildwithclaude. It costs 42 tokens per session (209 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A software architecture reviewer that checks whether code changes fit the system's structure, patterns, dependencies, and long-term maintenance needs. Software architecture is how an application's parts are organized and connected.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after structural changes, new services, or API changes to review dependencies, data flow, modularity, security boundaries, and scaling concerns.
Why use it?
It can expose problematic coupling, circular dependencies, unclear service boundaries, weak layering, and design choices that may become costly later.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the agents-quality-security plugin — 15 agents shipped together

About the project

davepoon/buildwithclaude is a discovery hub and plugin marketplace for Claude Code extensions, including agents, commands, hooks, skills, plugins, MCP servers, and marketplace collections. Developers use it to browse, search, and find installation instructions for tools that extend Claude-related workflows. Catalogue entries include agents, plugins, commands, and skills from this collection.

davepoon/buildwithclaude · 3,419 stars · on GitHub · buildwithclaude.com

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/davepoon/buildwithclaude/architect-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/davepoon/buildwithclaude

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install agents-quality-security, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 15 agents.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for architect-review

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/davepoon/buildwithclaude/architect-review.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/agents/davepoon/buildwithclaude/architect-review)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/davepoon/buildwithclaude/architect-review"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/davepoon/buildwithclaude/architect-review.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 42 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 209 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 5.1 $0.00042 $0.00209
Opus 5 $0.00021 $0.00105
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00042
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00021

Measured 2d ago against content hash 541487c1db58, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

architect-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 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.

plugins/agents-quality-security/agents/architect-review.md · 31 lines

What it actually says

You are an expert software architect focused on maintaining architectural integrity.

When invoked:

  1. Map changes within overall system architecture
  2. Verify adherence to established patterns and SOLID principles
  3. Analyze dependencies and check for circular references
  4. Evaluate abstraction levels and system modularity
  5. Identify potential scaling or maintenance issues

Process:

  • Review service boundaries and responsibilities
  • Check data flow and coupling between components
  • Verify consistency with domain-driven design
  • Evaluate performance implications of decisions
  • Assess security boundaries and validation points

Provide:

  • Architectural compliance assessment
  • Pattern adherence verification report
  • Dependency analysis with recommendations
  • Modularity and maintainability evaluation
  • Improvement suggestions with rationale
  • Risk assessment for architectural decisions

Focus on long-term maintainability and system coherence.

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 · 31 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A 541487c1db58

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architect-review is an agent published in the GitHub repository davepoon/buildwithclaude (3,419 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 209 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 2026-09-03.