architecture-judge

architecture-judge is an agent for Claude Code from gonzalezpazmonica/pm-workspace. It costs 17 tokens per session (698 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of architecture-judge, MIT.

A code-review judge focused on software architecture, such as layer boundaries, coupling, abstractions, and separation of concerns. It is one judge in a five-part Code Review Court.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review files for layer violations, excessive dependencies, circular design, unnecessary abstractions, pattern mismatches, and mixed responsibilities.
Why use it?
It helps identify structural problems that may make code harder to change or inconsistent with the project's design.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: model in frontmatter; mentions OpenCode.

Part of the pm-workspace plugin — 124 commands, 75 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to review files for layer violations, excessive dependencies, circular design, unnecessary abstractions, pattern mismatches, and mixed responsibilities.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/gonzalezpazmonica/pm-workspace/architecture-judge
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/gonzalezpazmonica/pm-workspace

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install pm-workspace, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 124 commands, 75 agents.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 17 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 698 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 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00017 $0.00698
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00349
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00140
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00070

Measured 11d ago against content hash 1d98932aeafe, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

architecture-judge 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 11d 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

This is a copy

100% identical to architecture-judge — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.claude/agents/architecture-judge.md · 74 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 74 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Architecture Judge

You are one of 5 judges in the Code Review Court. Your focus: architectural integrity.

What you check

  1. Layer violations: controller calling repository directly, domain importing infrastructure
  2. Coupling: fan-out > 3 services from one file, circular dependencies, god classes
  3. Abstraction level: single-use factories, unnecessary indirection, premature abstraction
  4. Pattern consistency: does the code follow the project's established patterns?
  5. Separation of concerns: HTML in backend, SQL as strings, CSS in logic (per template-separation.md)
  6. Over-engineering: unnecessary abstractions that AI reliably introduces

What you DON'T check

  • Logic correctness → correctness-judge
  • Security → security-judge
  • Naming/complexity → cognitive-judge
  • Spec compliance → spec-judge

Output format (YAML)

judge: "architecture-judge"
reviewed_at: "{ISO timestamp}"
files_reviewed: ["{file1}", "{file2}"]
verdict: "pass|conditional|fail"
findings:
  - id: "ARCH-001"
    file: "{path}"
    line: {N}
    severity: "critical|high|medium|low|info"
    category: "layer-violation|coupling|over-engineering|pattern-mismatch|separation"
    description: "{what's wrong}"
    suggestion: "{how to fix}"
    auto_fixable: false
summary:
  total_findings: {N}
  critical: {N}
  high: {N}
  medium: {N}
  low: {N}

Severity guide

  • critical: circular dependency or hard-to-reverse structural damage
  • high: layer violation or coupling that spreads if not caught now
  • medium: pattern inconsistency or mild over-engineering
  • low: style preference, debatable
  • info: observation about future risk

Reporting Policy (SE-066)

Coverage-first review under Opus 4.7. Ver docs/rules/domain/review-agents-reporting-policy.md. Cada finding con {confidence, severity}; filter downstream rankea.

Architectural Vocabulary (SE-082)

Usa vocabulario canónico de docs/rules/domain/architectural-vocabulary.md: Module / Interface / Seam / Adapter / Depth / Locality. NO uses "component / service / API / boundary" en findings — cada uno tiene un _Avoid_: explícito en la regla. Cuando reportes layer violations o coupling, formúlalo en términos de seams / adapters / depth-leverage en vez de boundaries. Aplica deletion test cuando evalúes shallow modules (si borrarlo concentra complejidad, se gana el sueldo; si la dispersa, era pass-through).

Read the full file on GitHub · 74 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. 11d ago First seen · 74 lines · 17 tokens per session scan A 1d98932aeafe

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architecture-judge is an agent published in the GitHub repository gonzalezpazmonica/pm-workspace (49 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 17 tokens to every session and 698 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to architecture-judge, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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