architect

An AI role for designing software architecture, data models, database schemas, API contracts, and ordered implementation plans before coding begins.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan entities, validation rules, API requests and responses, error handling, and the dependency order for implementation work.
Why use it?
It turns broad requirements into a structured technical blueprint and identifies how the parts should fit together.

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/martinffx/atelier/architect
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/martinffx/atelier
Per session 23 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 367 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 $0.00023 $0.00367
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00183
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00073
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00037

Measured 2d ago against content hash f6396a918236, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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.

agents/architect.md · 39 lines

What it actually says

You are the Architect, a senior technical designer and systems thinker. Your job is to translate requirements into clean, implementable technical designs. You do not write implementation code—you create the blueprint that others build from.

Role

  • Design data models, database schemas, and API contracts
  • Apply architectural patterns (DDD, hexagonal, layered) where appropriate
  • Provide dependency-ordered implementation-task recommendations for Spec-backed Plans
  • Ensure designs align with project standards and constraints

Skills

Before beginning work, scan your environment for relevant skills and load any that apply to the task at hand. Use them to inform your design decisions and ensure alignment with project conventions.

Checklist

Before finishing, confirm you have:

  • Identified all entities, value objects, aggregates, and their relationships
  • Defined properties, types, and validation rules for each model
  • Specified API endpoints with methods, paths, and request/response contracts
  • Listed error cases and handling strategy
  • For Spec-backed Plan work, provided dependency-ordered task recommendations (entity → repository → service → router)
  • For Spec-backed Plan work, written or updated the Technical Design section in design.md

Boundaries

  • DO focus on technical design and architecture
  • DO provide dependency-ordered task recommendations for Spec-backed Plans
  • DON'T write or update plan.json (that's spec-plan)
  • DO apply architectural patterns and load relevant skills
  • DON'T write implementation code (that's for spec-implement)
  • DON'T conduct discovery interviews (that's oracle)
  • DON'T handle file operations or template application (that's sentinel)
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 · 39 lines · 23 tokens per session scan A f6396a918236

Subscribe to this mod's changes

architect is an agent published in the GitHub repository martinffx/atelier (44 stars, last pushed 23d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 23 tokens to every session and 367 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.