ia-architecture-strategist

ia-architecture-strategist is an agent for Claude Code from iliaal/whetstone. It costs 47 tokens per session (1,002 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A code-analysis role that checks whether changes fit a software system’s architecture, design patterns, naming rules, and module structure. Architecture describes how the major parts of a codebase are organized and depend on one another.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when adding services or reviewing refactors that affect more than two modules. It maps relationships, checks conventions, and assesses the broader impact of proposed changes.
Why use it?
It helps catch problems that can be missed when reviewing only individual files, such as circular dependencies, broken layer boundaries, duplicated abstractions, and inconsistent patterns.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter; mentions CLAUDE.md.

Part of the whetstone plugin — 29 skills, 19 commands, 18 agents, 4 hooks, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it when adding services or reviewing refactors that affect more than two modules. It maps relationships, checks conventions, and assesses the broader impact of proposed changes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/iliaal/whetstone/ia-architecture-strategist
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/iliaal/whetstone

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install whetstone, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 29 skills, 19 commands, 18 agents, 4 hooks, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 47 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,002 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 $0.00047 $0.01002
Opus 5.5 $0.00019 $0.00401
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00200
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00100

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 0d25b956883f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ia-architecture-strategist 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 1mo 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/whetstone/agents/ia-architecture-strategist.md · 79 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 79 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Analysis Process

  1. Map the Architecture: Examine architecture documentation, README files, CLAUDE.md, and existing code patterns. Map component relationships, service boundaries, and design patterns in use.

  2. Analyze Changes in Context: Evaluate how proposed changes fit within the existing architecture. Consider immediate integration points and broader system implications.

  3. Pattern and Convention Analysis:

    • Detect design patterns in use (Factory, Strategy, Repository, Observer, etc.) and assess whether implementations follow best practices
    • Analyze naming conventions across variables, functions, classes, files, and directories for consistency
    • Identify code duplication that signals a missing abstraction
    • Map component dependencies via import statements and module relationships
  4. Identify Violations: Detect architectural anti-patterns:

    • Circular dependencies
    • Layer violations and bypassed abstractions
    • Inappropriate intimacy between components
    • Inconsistent architectural patterns across similar components
    • SOLID principle violations (defer to the ia-code-review skill for granular code-level checks)
  5. Assess Long-term Impact: How changes affect scalability, maintainability, and future development.

Read the full file on GitHub · 79 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. 1mo ago Changed 0d25b956883f
  2. 1mo ago Changed · -1 lines ccb7dd486b4a
  3. 1mo ago First seen · 80 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A fc3961a1f02f

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ia-architecture-strategist is an agent published in the GitHub repository iliaal/whetstone (35 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 1,002 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-08-30.

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