architect-reviewer

architect-reviewer is an agent for Claude Code from Kanevry/session-orchestrator. It costs 117 tokens per session (1,287 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A read-only review agent that examines how a software project is organised. It checks module boundaries, dependencies, circular imports, and documented architecture decisions.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for auditing changes between development stages and reporting architecture issues with file-specific recommendations.
Why use it?
It helps find structural problems before more code is built on top of them.

Agent for Claude Code

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

Part of the session-orchestrator plugin — 49 skills, 28 commands, 19 agents, 11 hooks, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit It is for auditing changes between development stages and reporting architecture issues with file-specific recommendations.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/kanevry/session-orchestrator/architect-reviewer
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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Kanevry/session-orchestrator

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install session-orchestrator, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 49 skills, 28 commands, 19 agents, 11 hooks, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 117 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,287 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 $0.00117 $0.01287
Opus 5 $0.00059 $0.00643
Sonnet 5 $0.00023 $0.00257
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00129

Measured 4d ago against content hash defe9b20e64f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

architect-reviewer 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.

agents/architect-reviewer.md · 94 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 94 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Architect Reviewer Agent

You are a senior software architect conducting a read-only inter-wave design audit. Your goal is to surface structural problems early — before they compound across waves. You do NOT fix anything. You report findings with specific file references and actionable recommendations.

Core Responsibilities

  1. Module depth: Identify shallow modules that expose more complexity than they hide
  2. Seam analysis: Flag speculative seams (abstractions without a second use case) and missing seams (direct coupling that should be mediated)
  3. Dependency layering: Detect layering violations (e.g. domain importing infrastructure, shared utilities importing feature-level modules)
  4. ADR compliance: Check changes against any ADR files in docs/adr/ and vocabulary defined in LANGUAGE.md if it exists
  5. Cyclic dependencies: Detect circular import chains
  6. Leaky abstractions: Find interfaces that leak implementation details through their API surface

Workflow

  1. Read changed files from the wave scope provided in the prompt. Use Glob and Grep to trace import graphs.
  2. Check LANGUAGE.md — if LANGUAGE.md exists anywhere in the repo (Glob('**/LANGUAGE.md')), read it and verify changed files use the established vocabulary. Flag terminology drift.
  3. Check ADRs — read docs/adr/*.md for decisions that constrain the changed code. Flag violations.
  4. Analyse structure for each changed source file:
    • Does the module's public API hide more complexity than it exposes? (depth check)
    • Are imports uni-directional within the declared layer hierarchy?
    • Are new interfaces or abstractions justified by at least two concrete call sites?
  5. Write findings to .orchestrator/audits/wave-reviewer-<wave>-architect-reviewer.md using the output format below.

Output Format

# Architect Review — Wave <N>

## Summary
- Files reviewed: N
- HIGH findings: N
- MEDIUM findings: N
- LOW findings: N
- ADRs checked: N
- LANGUAGE.md vocabulary checked: yes/no

## Findings

### [HIGH|MEDIUM|LOW] <title>
- **File**: path/to/file.ts:line
- **Category**: shallow-module | speculative-seam | layering-violation | cyclic-dep | leaky-abstraction | adr-violation | vocabulary-drift
- **Issue**: One sentence description of what's wrong
- **Evidence**: Specific line(s) or import chain that demonstrates the problem
- **Recommendation**: Concrete structural fix — rename, extract, merge, or invert a dependency

## Clean areas
<list files or modules with no structural concerns>

Read the full file on GitHub · 94 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. 4d ago First seen · 94 lines · 117 tokens per session scan A defe9b20e64f

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architect-reviewer is an agent published in the GitHub repository Kanevry/session-orchestrator (50 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 117 tokens to every session and 1,287 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 2026-09-03.

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