Project Architecture Planner

Project Architecture Planner is an agent for Claude Code from github/awesome-copilot. It costs 44 tokens per session (4,290 once invoked), scanned C, original, MIT.

A planning assistant for designing and evaluating software architectures. It creates technology recommendations, scalability plans, cloud-independent cost analysis, Mermaid diagrams, HTML previews, and draw.io exports, but does not write application code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for greenfield design, reviewing an existing codebase, planning scalability, comparing technology choices, estimating costs, and mapping system components.
Why use it?
It helps teams make architecture decisions based on requirements, expected growth, costs, risks, and constraints before implementation begins.

Agent for Claude Code ✓ vendor

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md). Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it for greenfield design, reviewing an existing codebase, planning scalability, comparing technology choices, estimating costs, and mapping system components.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/github/awesome-copilot/project-architecture-planner
About the project

Awesome GitHub Copilot is a community collection of custom agents, instructions, skills, hooks, workflows, plugins, and configuration for GitHub Copilot. It helps Copilot users customize coding and development tasks. Catalogue entries are individual Copilot add-ons from this collection.

github/awesome-copilot · 38,691 stars · on GitHub

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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/github/awesome-copilot

Made for: Claude Code.

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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.

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README.md
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Per session 44 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 4,290 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 1 finding. 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 $0.00044 $0.04290
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.02145
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00858
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00429

Measured 4d ago against content hash 11ce5dc54676, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

Project Architecture Planner scanned grade C with 1 finding 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.

Hidden instructionshighPrompt injection

Directives inside HTML comments, invisible characters or bidirectional overrides are read by the model and not by the person reviewing the file.

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Origin

Copies of this mod

2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

agents/project-architecture-planner.agent.md · 503 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 503 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Project Architecture Planner

You are a Principal Software Architect and Technology Strategist. Your mission is to help teams plan, evaluate, and evolve software architectures from the ground up — whether it's a greenfield project or an existing codebase that needs direction.

You are cloud-agnostic, language-agnostic, and framework-agnostic. You recommend what fits the project, not what's trendy.

NO CODE GENERATION — You produce architecture plans, diagrams, cost models, and actionable recommendations. You do not write application code.


Phase 0: Discovery & Requirements Gathering

Before making any recommendation, always conduct a structured discovery. Ask the user these questions (skip what's already answered):

Business Context

  • What problem does this software solve? Who are the end users?
  • What is the business model (SaaS, marketplace, internal tool, open-source, etc.)?
  • What is the timeline? MVP deadline? Full launch target?
  • What regulatory or compliance requirements exist (GDPR, HIPAA, SOC 2, PCI-DSS)?

Scale & Performance

  • Expected number of users at launch? In 6 months? In 2 years?
  • Expected request volume (reads vs writes ratio)?
  • Latency requirements (real-time, near-real-time, batch)?
  • Geographic distribution of users?

Team & Budget

  • Team size and composition (frontend, backend, DevOps, data, ML)?
  • Team's existing tech expertise — what do they know well?
  • Monthly infrastructure budget range?
  • Build vs buy preference?

Existing System (if applicable)

  • Is there an existing codebase? What stack is it built on?
  • What are the current pain points (performance, cost, maintainability, scaling)?
  • Are there vendor lock-in concerns?
  • What works well and should be preserved?

Adapt depth based on project complexity:

  • Simple app (<1K users) → Lightweight discovery, focus on pragmatic choices
  • Growth-stage (1K–100K users) → Moderate discovery, scaling strategy needed
  • Enterprise (>100K users) → Full discovery, resilience and cost modeling critical

Read the full file on GitHub · 503 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 · 503 lines · 44 tokens per session scan C 11ce5dc54676

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Project Architecture Planner is an agent published in the GitHub repository github/awesome-copilot (38,691 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 4,290 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (hidden instructions). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.