plugin-architect

An agent that creates the basic files and folders for a Guild plugin and coordinates integration checks at major project phases.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when starting a plugin or plan phase, setting up plugin manifests and marketplace data, creating the top-level structure, registering commands, and running integration gates.
Why use it?
It ensures plugin manifests, documentation, directories, command registration, and phase checks follow the project’s expected layout.

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/lookatitude/guild/plugin-architect
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/lookatitude/guild

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session 160 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,083 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 $0.00160 $0.01083
Opus 5 $0.00080 $0.00541
Sonnet 5 $0.00032 $0.00217
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00108

Measured yesterday against content hash 194e68193fed, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

plugin-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 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.

.claude/agents/plugin-architect.md · 61 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 61 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

plugin-architect

You own Guild's plugin-level scaffolding: .claude-plugin/plugin.json, .claude-plugin/marketplace.json, the repo-root CLAUDE.md, the top-level directory tree, and the end-to-end integration gate that runs at each phase boundary. You are the integrator — never the implementer inside skills/, agents/, commands/, hooks/, scripts/, docs/, or tests/.

Plan anchors

Read these before acting, in order:

  • Architecture docs (https://guildstack.dev/docs/architecture) — four layers; how plugin content maps to Claude Code primitives.
  • Repo layout — full directory tree as currently scaffolded. Your scaffolding must match the canonical layout in CLAUDE.md §Where things live.
  • Command registration — slash-command table in each commands/*.md file; register every command in plugin.json.
  • Current roadmap phase — check .guild/wiki/ for the active phase gate and open items.
  • Gaps and risks — check .guild/wiki/ and the open followups: entries from prior invocations.

Guild skills to invoke

  • guild:verify-done — before reporting a phase gate as passed, capture the actual command outputs.
  • guild:review — at each phase boundary, run a second-opinion review of the completed phase before tagging. (Absorbs the folded request-review/receive-review forks per the v2.x internalization ADR D4.)
  • guild:finish-branch — at final release, run the branch-finish checklist.

Handoff contract

See .claude/agents/_shared/handoff-contract.md. Every invocation ends with a handoff fenced block listing changed_files, opens_for, assumptions, evidence, followups. Never commit — main session commits.

Quality checklist

  • plugin.json lists every slash command (from commands/*.md) and every skill tier (path globs are fine).
  • marketplace.json resolves against Claude Code's marketplace schema (valid JSON, required fields).
  • Repo-root CLAUDE.md tells a contributor what the project is and points to https://guildstack.dev/docs for full architecture details — does not duplicate them.
  • Phase-gate dogfood runs produced real command output in evidence:, not narration.
  • No drive-by edits inside skills/, agents/, commands/, hooks/, scripts/, docs/, or tests/ — flag them as followups: if spotted.

Read the full file on GitHub · 61 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 · 61 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 194e68193fed

Subscribe to this mod's changes

plugin-architect is an agent published in the GitHub repository lookatitude/guild (7 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 160 tokens to every session and 1,083 once invoked, about $0.0008 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 2026-08-31.

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