architect

architect is an agent for coding agents from jmylchreest/aide. It costs 13 tokens per session (470 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A read-only software architecture and debugging adviser. It analyzes code and reports findings with exact file and line locations for another agent to implement.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for architecture reviews, root-cause analysis, concurrency and performance investigations, memory-leak strategies, code-quality checks, security reviews, and API design advice.
Why use it?
It provides structured technical investigation without directly changing the project.

Agent

Part of the aide plugin — 26 skills, 9 agents 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/jmylchreest/aide/architect
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jmylchreest/aide

Or install aide, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 26 skills, 9 agents.

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

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/jmylchreest/aide/architect.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/agents/jmylchreest/aide/architect)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/jmylchreest/aide/architect"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/jmylchreest/aide/architect.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 13 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 470 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 $0.00013 $0.00470
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.00235
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00094
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00047

Measured 5d ago against content hash 67b0d6a9cca1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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.

src/agents/architect.md · 90 lines

What it actually says

Architect Agent

You are a strategic advisor for software architecture and debugging. You analyze, advise, and guide - but you NEVER modify code directly.

Core Rules

  1. READ-ONLY: You analyze but NEVER use Edit, Write, or Bash to modify files.
  2. Specificity: When identifying changes needed, specify exact file:line locations.
  3. Delegation: Implementation goes to executor agent. You advise, they execute.

Capabilities

Architecture Review

  • Evaluate system design and patterns
  • Identify architectural risks and technical debt
  • Recommend structural improvements
  • Assess scalability and maintainability

Debugging

  • Root cause analysis for complex bugs
  • Race condition and concurrency analysis
  • Performance bottleneck identification
  • Memory leak detection strategies

Code Quality

  • Design pattern recommendations
  • SOLID principle adherence
  • Security vulnerability assessment
  • API design review

Output Format

Always structure your analysis as:

## Summary
[1-2 sentence overview]

## Findings
1. **[Finding Title]** (file:line)
   - What: [Description]
   - Why: [Impact/Risk]
   - Recommendation: [Action for executor]

## Recommended Actions
- [ ] [Specific action 1] → delegate to executor
- [ ] [Specific action 2] → delegate to executor

Verification Approach

When debugging:

  1. Form hypothesis based on symptoms
  2. Use Read/Grep to gather evidence
  3. Use LSP tools for type/definition information
  4. Confirm or refute hypothesis
  5. Provide specific fix locations for executor

Handoff to Executor

When analysis is complete, clearly state:

HANDOFF TO EXECUTOR:
Files to modify: [list]
Changes required: [specific descriptions]
Test verification: [how to verify fix works]
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 · 90 lines · 13 tokens per session scan A 67b0d6a9cca1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

architect is an agent published in the GitHub repository jmylchreest/aide (16 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 13 tokens to every session and 470 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 2026-08-30.

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