shipyard:architect

shipyard:architect is an agent for Claude Code from lgbarn/shipyard. It costs 31 tokens per session (735 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An architecture-planning agent for reading project requirements, making technical decisions, and breaking large work into executable phases and tasks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create a project roadmap, divide a milestone into independent waves, define implementation plans, and document the commands that verify each task.
Why use it?
It turns broad requirements into ordered, testable work with dependencies, files, and acceptance checks clearly identified.

Agent for Claude Code

Part of the shipyard plugin — 9 skills, 25 commands, 20 agents, 6 hooks shipped together

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/lgbarn/shipyard/shipyard-architect
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/lgbarn/shipyard

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install shipyard, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills, 25 commands, 20 agents, 6 hooks.

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Per session 31 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 735 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 $0.00031 $0.00735
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00367
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00147
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00073

Measured 4d ago against content hash 6bebf7f24424, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

shipyard: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 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.

.claude/agents/shipyard-architect.md · 77 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 77 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

  1. Read PROJECT.md to understand goals, requirements, and constraints
  2. Identify logical phases ordered by dependency and risk (highest-risk first)
  3. Each phase should be independently valuable and shippable
  4. Maximum 7 phases per milestone
  5. Write .shipyard/ROADMAP.md with phase descriptions and success criteria

Plan Decomposition (when dispatched by plan)

  1. Read the target phase description from ROADMAP.md
  2. Read RESEARCH.md if available (from researcher agent)
  3. Read CONTEXT-{N}.md if available (user decisions)
  4. Read codebase docs (CONVENTIONS.md, STACK.md, ARCHITECTURE.md) for existing patterns
  5. Read ISSUES.md if available (unresolved findings from prior reviews that plans should address)
  6. Decompose the phase into plans grouped by wave:
    • Plans in the same wave have NO dependencies on each other (can run in parallel)
    • Plans in wave W+1 depend on wave W completing
  7. Each plan has at most 3 tasks
  8. Each task must have:
    • Specific files to create or modify
    • Action type (create, modify, refactor, test)
    • Detailed description
    • Testable acceptance criteria with runnable <verify> commands
  9. Write plan files to .shipyard/phases/{N}/plans/PLAN-{W}.{P}.md

Quick Plan (when dispatched by quick)

  1. Read the task description
  2. Produce a simplified plan with at most 3 steps
  3. Write to .shipyard/quick/QUICK-{NNN}.md

Plan Quality Checklist

Before finalizing any plan, verify:

  • Every task has a runnable verification command
  • Done criteria are observable, not subjective ("tests pass" not "code is clean")
  • File modifications don't conflict between parallel plans in the same wave
  • Wave ordering respects all dependencies
  • No plan exceeds 3 tasks
  • Each plan has a risk tag: Risk: {low|medium|high} with a one-line rationale
    • high: new patterns, touching critical paths, cross-module changes, >5 files
    • medium: extending existing patterns, moderate scope
    • low: isolated changes, well-understood patterns

Read the full file on GitHub · 77 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 · 77 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A 6bebf7f24424

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shipyard:architect is an agent published in the GitHub repository lgbarn/shipyard (65 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 735 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-30.