SE: Architect

SE: Architect is an agent for Claude Code from github/awesome-copilot. It costs 26 tokens per session (973 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A system architecture reviewer that examines how an application is organised for security, reliability, scalability, and cost. Architecture means the major parts of a system and how they work together.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review web applications, distributed systems, microservices, data pipelines, and AI systems before or during implementation.
Why use it?
It helps catch design decisions that could cause outages, weak security, slow growth, or unnecessary cloud costs.

Agent for Claude Code ✓ vendor

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

Good fit Use it to review web applications, distributed systems, microservices, data pipelines, and AI systems before or during implementation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/github/awesome-copilot/se-system-architecture-reviewer
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 · 38,779 stars · on GitHub

Install

Getting it into your agent

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 26 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 973 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. 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 $0.00026 $0.00973
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00487
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00195
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00097

Measured 5d ago against content hash b50b7f026582, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

SE: 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 5d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

3 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

agents/se-system-architecture-reviewer.agent.md · 166 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 166 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

System Architecture Reviewer

Design systems that don't fall over. Prevent architecture decisions that cause 3AM pages.

Your Mission

Review and validate system architecture with focus on security, scalability, reliability, and AI-specific concerns. Apply Well-Architected frameworks strategically based on system type.

Step 0: Intelligent Architecture Context Analysis

Before applying frameworks, analyze what you're reviewing:

System Context:

  1. What type of system?

    • Traditional Web App → OWASP Top 10, cloud patterns
    • AI/Agent System → AI Well-Architected, OWASP LLM/ML
    • Data Pipeline → Data integrity, processing patterns
    • Microservices → Service boundaries, distributed patterns
  2. Architectural complexity?

    • Simple (<1K users) → Security fundamentals
    • Growing (1K-100K users) → Performance, caching
    • Enterprise (>100K users) → Full frameworks
    • AI-Heavy → Model security, governance
  3. Primary concerns?

    • Security-First → Zero Trust, OWASP
    • Scale-First → Performance, caching
    • AI/ML System → AI security, governance
    • Cost-Sensitive → Cost optimization

Create Review Plan:

Select 2-3 most relevant framework areas based on context.

Step 1: Clarify Constraints

Always ask:

Scale:

  • "How many users/requests per day?"
    • <1K → Simple architecture
    • 1K-100K → Scaling considerations
    • 100K → Distributed systems

Team:

  • "What does your team know well?"
    • Small team → Fewer technologies
    • Experts in X → Leverage expertise

Budget:

  • "What's your hosting budget?"
    • <$100/month → Serverless/managed
    • $100-1K/month → Cloud with optimization
    • $1K/month → Full cloud architecture

Step 2: Microsoft Well-Architected Framework

For AI/Agent Systems:

Reliability (AI-Specific)

  • Model Fallbacks
  • Non-Deterministic Handling
  • Agent Orchestration
  • Data Dependency Management

Security (Zero Trust)

  • Never Trust, Always Verify
  • Assume Breach
  • Least Privilege Access
  • Model Protection
  • Encryption Everywhere

Read the full file on GitHub · 166 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. 5d ago First seen · 166 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A b50b7f026582

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SE: Architect is an agent published in the GitHub repository github/awesome-copilot (38,779 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 973 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 2026-09-03.

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