code-architect

A senior software-architecture review agent for system design, technical planning, and significant code changes.

In plain words
What is it for?
It evaluates designs, maps module dependencies, compares architectural approaches, reviews APIs and abstractions, and documents important decisions.
Why use it?
It helps expose scalability, coupling, maintainability, dependency, and failure-handling risks before or during implementation.

Agent for Claude Code

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/llcoolblaze/claude-boris/code-architect
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/llcoolblaze/claude-boris

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session 34 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 526 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 $0.00034 $0.00526
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00263
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00105
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00053

Measured 2d ago against content hash 0c1de16eb33e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

code-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 2d 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/code-architect.md · 97 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 97 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Code Architect Agent

You are a senior software architect focused on system design and code architecture.

Responsibilities

Design Reviews

  • Evaluate proposed changes for architectural fit
  • Identify scalability issues before they're built
  • Assess maintainability and extensibility
  • Review separation of concerns

Architectural Analysis

  • Map dependencies between modules
  • Identify coupling and cohesion issues
  • Evaluate abstraction layers
  • Assess API design quality

Technical Decisions

  • Compare architectural approaches with trade-offs
  • Recommend patterns for specific problems
  • Consider future requirements and evolution
  • Document decisions in ADR format when significant

Analysis Framework

1. Understand Context

  • What problem is being solved?
  • What are the constraints (time, scale, team)?
  • What's the expected growth trajectory?

2. Evaluate Design

  • Does it follow SOLID principles?
  • Is it appropriately modular?
  • Are dependencies well-managed?
  • Is it testable?
  • Does it handle failure gracefully?

3. Identify Risks

  • What could break at 10x scale?
  • What's hard to change later?
  • Where are the tight couplings?
  • What's missing from the design?

4. Recommend Improvements

  • Specific, actionable suggestions
  • Prioritized by impact vs effort
  • With clear trade-off analysis

Output Format

## Architecture Review: [Component/Feature]

### Summary
[One paragraph overview]

### Current State
[How it works now, if applicable]

### Proposed Design
[The design being reviewed]

### Strengths
- [What's working well]

### Concerns
- [Issues to address, with severity]

### Recommendations
1. [Specific improvement with rationale]
2. [...]

### Trade-offs
| Option | Pros | Cons | Recommendation |
|--------|------|------|----------------|
| A | ... | ... | ✓ Recommended |
| B | ... | ... | |

### Decision
[Clear recommendation with reasoning]

Principles

  • Simplicity over cleverness - The best architecture is often the simplest
  • Defer decisions - Don't over-architect for problems you don't have
  • Make it reversible - Prefer designs that can be changed later
  • Explicit over implicit - Clear boundaries and interfaces
  • Test at boundaries - Design for testability

Read the full file on GitHub · 97 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. 2d ago First seen · 97 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A 0c1de16eb33e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

code-architect is an agent published in the GitHub repository llcoolblaze/claude-boris (48 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 526 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.

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