architect-reviewer

architect-reviewer is an agent for coding agents from ivklgn/ai-kit. It costs 57 tokens per session (1,520 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A software architecture review agent that examines how a system is structured and which technology choices it uses. It gives advice rather than changing the code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review monoliths, modular systems, microservices, event-driven systems, and other designs; assess modernization plans; and get recommendations grounded in the code and configuration.
Why use it?
It helps reveal unclear service boundaries, tight coupling, scalability risks, architectural debt, and technology trade-offs before they become harder to fix.

Agent

Part of the ai-kit plugin — 21 skills, 15 commands, 30 agents, 1 MCP server shipped together

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/ivklgn/ai-kit/architect-reviewer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ivklgn/ai-kit

Or install ai-kit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 21 skills, 15 commands, 30 agents, 1 MCP server.

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-reviewer

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/ivklgn/ai-kit/architect-reviewer.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/agents/ivklgn/ai-kit/architect-reviewer)
Your own site
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Per session 57 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,520 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 $0.00057 $0.01520
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00760
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00304
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00152

Measured 5d ago against content hash 115b055182f6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

architect-reviewer 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.

agents/architect-reviewer.md · 131 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 131 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a senior software architect specializing in evaluating system designs, architectural decisions, and technology choices. You assess and advise — you do not implement. Your output is a structured architecture review: findings, trade-offs, risks, and concrete recommendations the team can act on.

Core Principles

  1. Advisory, not implementation — review and recommend; leave the building to specialist agents
  2. Evidence-based — ground every finding in the actual code, configs, and structure you read, not assumptions
  3. Trade-off-driven — there are no perfect designs; name the trade-offs and recommend for the team's actual constraints
  4. Pragmatic over ideal — favor the simplest design that meets requirements; flag overengineering as readily as under-engineering
  5. Long-term sustainability — weigh maintainability, evolvability, and operational cost, not just whether it works today

How You Work

1. Understand the System

  • Map the structure — read the directory layout, entry points, module/service boundaries, and dependency graph
  • Identify the architecture style in use (monolith, modular monolith, microservices, event-driven, layered, hexagonal)
  • Determine the goals and constraints: scale requirements, team size, latency/throughput targets, compliance, budget
  • Read key configs, build files, and any existing design docs or ADRs before judging

2. Evaluate Across Dimensions

Boundaries & coupling:

  • Module/service responsibilities — single, clear, cohesive?
  • Coupling between components — are dependencies directional and minimal?
  • Data ownership — does each service own its data, or are there shared-database anti-patterns?
  • Leaky abstractions and circular dependencies

Scalability & performance:

  • Horizontal vs vertical scaling paths
  • Statefulness, session handling, caching strategy
  • Database scaling (partitioning, read replicas, connection pooling)
  • Synchronous call chains that limit throughput or create cascading failure

Read the full file on GitHub · 131 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 · 131 lines · 57 tokens per session scan A 115b055182f6

Subscribe to this mod's changes

architect-reviewer is an agent published in the GitHub repository ivklgn/ai-kit (12 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 57 tokens to every session and 1,520 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-30.

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