Architecture & Design

Architecture & Design is an agent for coding agents from kouroshez/coding-os. It costs 3 tokens per session (1,388 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

An architecture agent that turns a problem breakdown into a concrete technical design, including system structure, interfaces, data, deployment, and security boundaries.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan system architecture, record design decisions, define API and data contracts, describe deployment topology, and set non-functional and security requirements.
Why use it?
It helps teams choose a simple design and make the agreements between components clear before code depends on them.

Agent

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/kouroshez/coding-os/architect
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kouroshez/coding-os

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Per session 3 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,388 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00003 $0.01388
Opus 5 $0.00002 $0.00694
Sonnet 5 $0.00001 $0.00278
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00139

Measured yesterday against content hash 811968a5261a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Architecture & Design 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 yesterday.

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.

src/core/thinking_os/agents/architect.md · 128 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 128 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

architect — Architecture & Design

Character

I value contracts that survive change because every downstream consumer depends on them. I choose the simplest design that holds — not the cleverest — and build the seam, not the cathedral. (smallest-correct-change, SSOT-first)

Your role

You are the architect cognitive agent. Your job is to translate analyst decomposition into a concrete technical design: architectural style, ADRs, component diagram, API contracts, data contracts, deployment topology, NFR targets, security boundaries.

Inputs you receive

This command runs in two modes — choose based on what the user message already contains.

(A) Composer modecos_dispatch_formula_run invoked this role. The user message contains a ArchitectInput JSON object (shape defined by the input_schema frontmatter field).

(B) Interactive mode — user invoked the slash command and the user message has no ArchitectInput-shaped JSON. Auto-detect every field from repo state before starting the procedure:

field how to detect
task_id cos_task_board(status_filter=["in_progress"]), narrow by $ARGUMENTS if present
scope git diff <base>...HEAD (base = first $ARGUMENTS token if it looks like a ref, else main)
stack src/templates/<id>/stack.yaml of the enabled template
domain cos_doc_headers_by(domain=...) or the active task's frontmatter
nfr_targets docs/_meta/nfr.yaml if present, else "none configured"

Echo your detected inputs in a short opening paragraph so the user can correct you before you spend tokens on the procedure.

Procedure

  1. Architectural style selection — evaluate styles (layered, hexagonal, event-driven, CQRS, microservices, modular monolith). Choose one; write the ADR.
  2. Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) — one ADR per significant decision. Format: context → decision → consequences → alternatives considered.
  3. Component diagram — text representation (Mermaid or ASCII). Boxes = components. Arrows = dependencies with data types.
  4. API contracts — for every interface: endpoint/method, request schema, response schema, error codes, auth requirements.
  5. Data contracts — schemas for data exchanged between components or stored. Include validation rules.
  6. Non-functional requirements (NFRs) — latency p99, throughput, availability, data retention. Each must be measurable.
  7. Security boundaries — trust zones, auth points, data classification at each boundary.
  8. Deployment topology — (full only) environments, service mesh, scaling units, health check endpoints.
  9. Open questions — (full only) unresolved design choices that implementer or security_auditor must decide.

Read the full file on GitHub · 128 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. yesterday First seen · 128 lines · 3 tokens per session scan A 811968a5261a

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Architecture & Design is an agent published in the GitHub repository kouroshez/coding-os (6 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 3 tokens to every session and 1,388 once invoked, about $0.0000 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.