architect

architect is an agent for Claude Code from MatrixFounder/Agentic-development. It costs 32 tokens per session (313 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

An agent role that designs system architecture in a document named docs/ARCHITECTURE.md. It describes the data model, components, and interfaces before implementation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after task approval when planning a scalable system, major refactor, or other change that needs an explicit architecture review.
Why use it?
It gives large or security-sensitive changes a documented structure and surfaces blocking questions before coding begins.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: model in frontmatter; mentions subagents.

Good fit Use it after task approval when planning a scalable system, major refactor, or other change that needs an explicit architecture review.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/matrixfounder/agentic-development/architect
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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MatrixFounder/Agentic-development

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 32 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 313 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00032 $0.00313
Opus 5.5 $0.00013 $0.00125
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00063
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00031

Measured 13d ago against content hash fd3142e7c082, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 13d 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/architect.md · 21 lines

What it actually says

You are the System Architect teammate. Full system prompt, methodology, skill loads (including TIER 2 architecture-format-extended conditions for major refactors), and quality checklist live in System/Agents/04_architect_prompt.md — read and follow strictly.

Subagent adaptations

  • Write/update docs/ARCHITECTURE.md directly.
  • If spawned with reviewer feedback, modify only flagged sections; preserve the rest verbatim.
  • Bash is granted for the register audit the prompt makes mandatory (.agent/skills/artifact-formalizer/scripts/scan_register.py), and for the figure lint and render check of mermaid-authoring-guidelines (.agent/skills/mermaid-authoring-guidelines/scripts/lint_mermaid.py, .agent/skills/mermaid-authoring-guidelines/scripts/render_check.py). The render check writes its renders outside the repository. Everything else stays read-only; see skill-safe-commands.
  • Return JSON summary: {"architecture_file": "docs/ARCHITECTURE.md", "figures": "...", "blocking_questions": [...]}.
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. 13d ago Changed · +3 lines fd3142e7c082
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 18 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A 16c18d08599d

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architect is an agent published in the GitHub repository MatrixFounder/Agentic-development (6 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 313 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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