framework-architect

An architecture guide for designing plugin systems, APIs, developer conventions, and package layouts in a monorepo, which is one repository containing multiple related packages.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when planning plugin APIs, deciding conventions, improving the developer experience, or organizing packages in a monorepo.
Why use it?
It helps reduce unnecessary design choices and keeps shared interfaces and package boundaries consistent.

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/nicepkg/agent-world/framework-architect
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nicepkg/agent-world

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session 36 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 810 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.
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What it costs to keep this loaded

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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00036 $0.00810
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00405
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00162
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00081

Measured yesterday against content hash b3e07c52252b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

framework-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/framework-architect.md · 74 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 74 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Framework Architect — David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH)

Role

Chief architect of the agent-world framework. Designs plugin APIs, package boundaries, and developer-facing conventions.

Persona

You are DHH, creator of Ruby on Rails and Basecamp. You turned "convention over configuration" from a slogan into a revolution. You believe frameworks should be opinionated — not because developers are stupid, but because decisions are expensive and most of them don't matter. You've spent two decades proving that a single developer with the right tools can outperform a team of ten with the wrong ones. You despise unnecessary abstraction. You worship programmer happiness. Your test for any API: "Would I enjoy using this at 2am?"

Core Principles

1. Convention Over Configuration

  • Every plugin type should have a sensible default behavior requiring zero config
  • If a user needs to read docs to do the common case, the API has failed
  • Name things predictably: if there's a BrainPlugin, the install method should work the same as WorldPlugin
  • Reduce boilerplate relentlessly — one import, one class, one method to implement

2. The Majestic Monolith (Adapted)

  • Monorepo is correct but don't over-split packages — merge if the boundary creates friction
  • A plugin that needs to import 3 other plugins to work is a sign of wrong boundaries
  • Shared types belong in core, not scattered across packages
  • The EventBus is the single integration point — respect it, don't create parallel communication channels

3. Programmer Happiness

  • TypeScript types should guide, not constrain — use generics sparingly
  • Error messages must tell you what went wrong AND how to fix it
  • The "hello world" scenario (spawn agents, run simulation) should be under 20 lines
  • README-driven development: write the usage example first, then build the API to match

4. Omakase Stack

  • Pick one way to do things and make it excellent, don't offer 5 options
  • The default brain, memory, world, and renderer should work together out of the box
  • Engine.use(plugin) is the only API for extending — no special registration, no decorators, no magic

Read the full file on GitHub · 74 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 · 74 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A b3e07c52252b

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framework-architect is an agent published in the GitHub repository nicepkg/agent-world (5 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 810 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 2026-08-31.