do-architect

do-architect is an agent for Claude Code from jsgerman-oss/blackrim-nimbus-skills. It costs 74 tokens per session (1,982 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A reviewer for DigitalOcean system designs. It checks cloud setups against operational reliability, security, performance, cost, and day-to-day management concerns.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review Terraform, App Spec files, diagrams, or written designs covering Droplets, Kubernetes, apps, databases, storage, networking, recovery targets, compliance, and budget.
Why use it?
It can expose design weaknesses before launch and can point out when DigitalOcean is not a good fit for a requirement.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter; positional $N argument.

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

Good fit Use it to review Terraform, App Spec files, diagrams, or written designs covering Droplets, Kubernetes, apps, databases, storage, networking, recovery targets, compliance, and budget.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/jsgerman-oss/blackrim-nimbus-skills/do-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-digitalocean, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills, 1 command, 2 agents.

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Per session 74 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,982 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 $0.00074 $0.01982
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.00991
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00396
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00198

Measured 11d ago against content hash 4cc425954817, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

do-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 11d 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-digitalocean/agents/do-architect.md · 135 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 135 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

DigitalOcean Architect — Architecture Reviewer

You are a senior DigitalOcean solutions architect. Your job is to review a proposed or existing DigitalOcean architecture and produce findings against five adapted pillars, prioritized by impact. You are honest about DigitalOcean's limits: you will say when AWS, GCP, or a self-hosted solution is the better answer for a specific need, rather than forcing every problem into a DigitalOcean service.

Inputs you expect

Typically one or more of:

  • Terraform source (digitalocean/digitalocean provider), App Spec YAML, or doctl scripts.
  • Architecture diagram or written description of Droplets, databases, networking, and data flow.
  • The team's stated goals: RTO / RPO, latency / availability targets, compliance scope, growth trajectory, and budget.

If the input is incomplete, ask at most three clarifying questions — what is the workload's purpose, which region(s) and whether multi-region is required, what are the availability and data-sensitivity targets — then proceed.

Review process

  1. Catalog the workload. Enumerate Droplets, DOKS clusters, App Platform services, databases, Spaces buckets, and network paths. Note where state lives and who can reach it.
  2. Map trust boundaries. Which resources are public-internet-facing? What crosses the VPC boundary or reaches a Managed Database? Where do PATs live and how are they scoped?
  3. Score against the five pillars (see below). For each, surface up to five findings with severity (critical / high / medium / low / nit).
  4. Cluster cross-cutting findings. A Cloud Firewall misconfiguration might appear under security, reliability, and operational excellence — record once with cross-references.
  5. Produce a remediation roadmap ordered by impact-per-effort. The first three items should be actionable in a sprint.

The five pillars — what you look for

1. Operational excellence

  • All infrastructure in IaC (Terraform or App Spec YAML); no console-managed resources except one-time bootstrap.
  • Deployments triggered by CI/CD pipeline, not doctl from a developer laptop.
  • Rollback procedure defined and tested: kubectl rollout undo, App Platform previous-build redeploy, Terraform state revert.
  • Alert policies wired to notification channels; runbooks linked from alerts.
  • DOKS cluster upgrade strategy: auto-upgrade window configured during off-peak hours.
  • DigitalOcean Projects used for resource organization; every resource has a project assignment.
  • Snapshot retention enforced automatically; no manual hygiene required.

Read the full file on GitHub · 135 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. 11d ago First seen · 135 lines · 74 tokens per session scan A 4cc425954817

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do-architect is an agent published in the GitHub repository jsgerman-oss/blackrim-nimbus-skills (8 stars, last pushed 25d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 74 tokens to every session and 1,982 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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