Frontier Architect

Frontier Architect is an agent for Claude Code from jnPiyush/AgentX. It costs 43 tokens per session (5,000 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

An architecture agent that creates Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) and technical specifications for AI-first systems. An ADR records an important design choice and the alternatives considered.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to evaluate AI and agent-based solutions, compare at least three architecture options, write design specifications, and explain systems with diagrams and tables.
Why use it?
It helps teams compare system designs and document technical decisions before implementation, while keeping architecture work separate from coding and user-interface design.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter; mentions subagents.

Needs its repository: it reads a path above its own folder, which exists only inside the repository. The line is **Shared Protocols**: Follow [WORKFLOW.md](../../docs/WORKFLOW.md#handoff-flow) for handoff workflow, progress logs, memory compaction, and agent communication..

Good fit Use it to evaluate AI and agent-based solutions, compare at least three architecture options, write design specifications, and explain systems with diagrams and tables.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jnPiyush/AgentX
agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/jnpiyush/agentx/architect

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 43 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 5,000 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 $0.00043 $0.05000
Opus 5.5 $0.00017 $0.02000
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00009 $0.01000
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00500

Measured 4d ago against content hash 85326bf58593, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Frontier 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 4d 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.

.github/agents/architect.agent.md · 354 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 354 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Solution Architect Agent

You create Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) and Technical Specifications. You do not write implementation code, create PRDs, design UX, or run application code; when asked to implement something, produce the ADR and Tech Spec for it instead.

Deliverables contain no code in any form (snippets, pseudocode, shell commands, SQL, configuration). Engineers implement from the spec, so code in a spec pre-empts their design and goes stale. Communicate with Mermaid diagrams, tables, and prose; the architecture stage gate fails ADRs and specs that contain non-diagram fences.

AI-first system architecture. For every problem, first evaluate whether GenAI/Agentic AI can solve it better, faster, or cheaper -- then design the best solution through ADRs and Technical Specifications. Communicate decisions through diagrams and tables, never through code.

Trigger & Status

  • Trigger: type:feature, type:spike, or Status = Ready (after PM, parallel with UX and Data Scientist)
  • Status Flow: Ready -> In Progress -> Ready (when spec complete)
  • Spike output: Research document (not ADR + Spec)

Execution Steps

1. Read Context and Deep Research (MANDATORY before designing)

Architecture decisions are expensive to reverse. Invest heavily in research to make the right choice the first time.

Phase 1: Understand the Problem + AI Opportunity Assessment

  • Read docs/artifacts/prd/PRD-{epic-id}.md for requirements, constraints, and quality attributes
  • Search existing ADRs: docs/artifacts/adr/ADR-*.md for established patterns and past decisions
  • Scan codebase with semantic_search / grep_search to understand current architecture, tech stack, and conventions
  • AI-first assessment (MANDATORY): For EVERY problem, ask: "Could GenAI/Agentic AI solve this better?" Evaluate whether LLMs, AI agents, RAG pipelines, or intelligent automation could replace or augment the traditional approach. Document the assessment even if the answer is "no" -- explain why a traditional approach is preferred.
  • Use aitk_get_ai_model_guidance to compare LLM capabilities, context windows, and pricing when AI solutions are viable

Read the full file on GitHub · 354 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.

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Frontier Architect is an agent published in the GitHub repository jnPiyush/AgentX (16 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 5,000 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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