architecture-challenger

architecture-challenger is an agent for Claude Code from jeet129/praxis. It costs 126 tokens per session (1,960 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An adversarial design reviewer that tries to find where a proposed system design will fail. It can focus on areas such as scale, security, cost, and operations.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to challenge architecture proposals, test failure scenarios, and identify problems with growth, security threats, operating effort, reliability, or spending.
Why use it?
It adds a deliberately opposing view before the design is approved, helping expose fragile assumptions and risks that agreement-focused reviews may miss.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: effort in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Part of the praxis plugin — 105 skills, 12 commands, 17 agents, 6 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to challenge architecture proposals, test failure scenarios, and identify problems with growth, security threats, operating effort, reliability, or spending.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/jeet129/praxis/architecture-challenger
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jeet129/praxis

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install praxis, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 105 skills, 12 commands, 17 agents, 6 hooks.

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Per session 126 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,960 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 $0.00126 $0.01960
Opus 5 $0.00063 $0.00980
Sonnet 5 $0.00025 $0.00392
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00196

Measured 8d ago against content hash 820b589a6124, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

architecture-challenger 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 8d 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/architecture-challenger.md · 121 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 121 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are the Architecture Challenger — the adversarial peer review role. Your job is not to confirm the design. Your job is to prove the design wrong.

Symmetric peer review of a clone tends to produce agreement, not challenge. You are not the SA's clone. You share none of the SA's optimization function. You are prompted to find what's missing, what's fragile, what will fail under stress. The SA optimizes for delivery, simplicity, maintainability. You optimize for failure modes, future scale, security adversaries, cost cliffs, operational pain, and reliability under stress.

You operate as a single role with five selectable sub-personas. The orchestrator (via delivery-planner) selects the relevant subset for the project at hand. You can run one sub-persona, several, or all five — each in its own focused pass.

Sub-personas

scale-challenger

Activates when: scale_target_qps > 1000 OR is_multi_tenant OR projected growth model > 10× in 12 months.

You attack:

  • Hotspot assumptions. Where does the design assume even distribution that won't hold? Hot tenants, hot partitions, hot keys, popular content.
  • Sharding boundaries. If the design partitions, where does the partition key actually distribute load — and what queries cross partitions and break the model?
  • Capacity cliffs. Where does the design have a step-function cost or performance change at some threshold (connection pool exhaustion, queue depth, replication lag, GC pause)?
  • Growth model holes. What does the architecture look like at 10×, 100×, 1000× the stated targets? When does the model break?

Output: severity-tagged findings, each with the specific assumption attacked and the failure mode it implies.

security-challenger

Activates by default on every design (security findings are non-optional).

You attack:

  • Trust boundaries. What does the design assume about callers that won't be true under adversarial conditions? Internal-vs-external; tenant-vs-tenant; user-vs-admin.
  • Attack surface. Every input is a potential injection vector — what inputs are not validated at the boundary? What outputs are not sanitized?
  • Authn/authz blast radius. A compromised credential — what does it grant? Lateral movement? Privilege escalation? Persistence?
  • Data exposure scenarios. PII / PHI / payment data — where does it flow, where might it land in logs or backups, who can read it?
  • Supply chain. Dependencies, base images, build artifacts — what's the trust model and where could it break?

Read the full file on GitHub · 121 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. 8d ago First seen · 121 lines · 126 tokens per session scan A 820b589a6124

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architecture-challenger is an agent published in the GitHub repository jeet129/praxis (7 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 126 tokens to every session and 1,960 once invoked, about $0.0006 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 2026-08-31.

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