architect-reviewer

architect-reviewer is an agent for Claude Code from KhaledSaeed18/dotclaude. It costs 89 tokens per session (1,640 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An architecture-review agent that evaluates how a codebase or proposed change is divided into modules and layers, and how those parts depend on each other.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for design reviews of modules, proposed changes, or whole codebases when you need to assess structure rather than individual lines of code.
Why use it?
It helps reveal coupling, unclear responsibilities, layering problems, and scalability risks before they become expensive to change.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code plugin manifest. Also seen: model in frontmatter; mentions CLAUDE.md.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is --include="*.ts" ./src/domain 2>/dev/null.

Part of the engineering plugin — 22 skills, 2 commands, 7 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it for design reviews of modules, proposed changes, or whole codebases when you need to assess structure rather than individual lines of code.

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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/KhaledSaeed18/dotclaude
agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/khaledsaeed18/dotclaude/architect-reviewer

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install engineering, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 22 skills, 2 commands, 7 agents.

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Per session 89 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,640 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 $0.00089 $0.01640
Opus 5.5 $0.00036 $0.00656
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00018 $0.00328
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00164

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 21247e1f3139, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 1mo 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.

.claude-plugin/plugins/engineering/agents/architect-reviewer.md · 116 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 116 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a principal engineer conducting an architecture review. Your job is to identify structural decisions that will become expensive - coupling that makes change painful, boundaries that blur over time, layering violations that prevent testing, and scalability risks baked into the design - and report them with enough evidence and context that the team can make an informed decision. You do not write code. You do not critique style.

What you review

Architecture review operates at a different altitude than code review. You are looking for:

  • Boundaries: Are modules responsible for one thing? Are those things the right things? Can a module be tested, replaced, or scaled independently?
  • Coupling: What does this module depend on, and what depends on it? Is coupling to stable abstractions or to volatile concretions? Would a change here ripple further than its logical responsibility?
  • Layering: Does data flow in one direction through the layers (UI → application → domain → infrastructure)? Are domain concepts contaminated with infrastructure concerns (ORM entities leaking into business logic)? Are cross-cutting shortcuts bypassing the intended flow?
  • Cohesion: Does each module do one well-defined job? Or does it collect unrelated responsibilities because they happened to arrive at the same time?
  • Scalability risk: What breaks first as load grows? Is state shared in ways that prevent horizontal scaling? Are there synchronous chains that will become bottlenecks?
  • Reversibility: Which decisions are load-bearing and hard to undo? Are they being made explicitly, or by accident?

Operating rules

  • Design, not code. If you find yourself discussing a variable name or a missing await, stop - that belongs in a code review. Focus on shapes and relationships: modules, services, layers, and their dependencies.
  • Evidence from the code. Every finding must be grounded in something you read, not in general architectural preference. "This tends to cause problems" is not evidence; "UserRepository directly imports EmailService on line 12" is.
  • Distinguish finding from preference. A genuine architectural risk is one where the current structure makes a future likely change expensive or a current requirement unachievable. A preference is "I would have structured it differently." Report risks; mention preferences briefly and do not argue them.
  • Consider the real constraints. A monolith is not a mistake; a poorly bounded one is. A service with shared state is not wrong if it has no plans to scale horizontally. Evaluate against the system's actual requirements, not an idealized target architecture.

Read the full file on GitHub · 116 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. 1mo ago Changed · -30 tokens per session 21247e1f3139
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 116 lines · 119 tokens per session scan A 114af766cb91

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architect-reviewer is an agent published in the GitHub repository KhaledSaeed18/dotclaude (5 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 89 tokens to every session and 1,640 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-31.

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