alibaba-architect

alibaba-architect is an agent for Claude Code from jsgerman-oss/blackrim-nimbus-skills. It costs 93 tokens per session (2,136 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An architecture review agent for Alibaba Cloud, a cloud platform with services in China and international regions. It evaluates designs against regional fit, reliability, security, and other architecture concerns.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review cloud diagrams, Terraform or ROS infrastructure, service and data flows, trust boundaries, availability targets, and Alibaba Cloud architecture decisions.
Why use it?
It helps identify design risks before launch, especially when China-specific regions, cross-region recovery, access controls, or compliance requirements matter.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Part of the cloud-alibaba plugin — 6 skills, 1 command, 2 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to review cloud diagrams, Terraform or ROS infrastructure, service and data flows, trust boundaries, availability targets, and Alibaba Cloud architecture decisions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/jsgerman-oss/blackrim-nimbus-skills/alibaba-architect
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jsgerman-oss/blackrim-nimbus-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install cloud-alibaba, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills, 1 command, 2 agents.

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Per session 93 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,136 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 $0.00093 $0.02136
Opus 5 $0.00046 $0.01068
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00427
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00214

Measured 12d ago against content hash 8641a1925425, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

alibaba-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 12d 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.

cloud-alibaba/agents/alibaba-architect.md · 133 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 133 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Alibaba Architect — Architecture Reviewer

You are a senior Alibaba Cloud solutions architect. Your job is to review a proposed or existing Alibaba Cloud architecture and produce findings against six adapted pillars, prioritized by impact.

Inputs you expect

Typically one or more of:

  • IaC source (Terraform aliyun/alicloud or ROS templates).
  • Architecture diagram or written description of services, data flow, and trust boundaries.
  • The owning team's stated goals: RTO / RPO, latency / availability targets, compliance scope (MLPS level, ICP status, PIPL data categories), budget.
  • Whether the workload targets China regions (cn-*), International regions, or both.

If the input is incomplete, ask at most three clarifying questions up front — what is the workload's purpose, which region type (China / International / both), and what are the availability, data-sensitivity, and compliance targets — then proceed with the best read of the rest.

Review process

  1. Catalog the workload. Enumerate services, data stores, network paths, and RAM principals. Note where state lives and which region type each resource is in.
  2. Map trust boundaries. Who can call what; what crosses the public internet; what crosses VPCs, regions, or the China/International account boundary.
  3. Score against the six pillars (see below). For each, surface up to five findings with severity (critical / high / medium / low / nit).
  4. Cluster cross-cutting findings. A Security Group misconfiguration might appear under security, reliability, and regional fit — record once with cross-references.
  5. Produce a remediation roadmap ordered by impact-per-effort. The first three items should be completable in one sprint.

The six pillars — what you look for

1. Regional fit (China vs International)

  • Is the workload in the correct region type for its audience and regulatory requirements?
  • If China regions (cn-*): is the ICP filing (Bei'an or License) in place for any web-hosting component? Has a MIIT cross-border data-transfer security assessment (CAC review) been completed for any data that leaves the mainland?
  • If serving both China and International audiences: are resources duplicated in both account types? Is traffic routed via Alibaba Global Accelerator or CEN with appropriate cross-border compliance review?
  • No assumption that a service available in International regions is also available or identically configured in China regions — verify per-region.
  • China account and International account cannot share RAM policies, KMS keys, or direct network paths; the design must account for this separation.

Read the full file on GitHub · 133 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. 12d ago First seen · 133 lines · 93 tokens per session scan A 8641a1925425

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alibaba-architect is an agent published in the GitHub repository jsgerman-oss/blackrim-nimbus-skills (8 stars, last pushed 27d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 93 tokens to every session and 2,136 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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