master-architect

master-architect is an agent for Claude Code from nxtg-ai/forge-plugin. It costs 452 tokens per session (6,908 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A senior software-design reviewer that evaluates how an application should be structured. It challenges unnecessary complexity, compares design options, and recommends simpler choices that are easier to maintain.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review system designs, choose between a single application and multiple services, select patterns, and assess dependencies, maintainability, and failure handling.
Why use it?
It helps avoid architecture decisions that are difficult to understand, costly to change, or dependent on too many external components. It provides a second opinion before major design choices become expensive to undo.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter; names the TodoWrite tool.

Part of the nxtg-forge plugin — 27 skills, 24 commands, 33 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to review system designs, choose between a single application and multiple services, select patterns, and assess dependencies, maintainability, and failure handling.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/nxtg-ai/forge-plugin/master-architect
Install

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nxtg-ai/forge-plugin

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install nxtg-forge, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 27 skills, 24 commands, 33 agents.

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Per session 452 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 6,908 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 $0.00452 $0.06908
Opus 5.5 $0.00181 $0.02763
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00090 $0.01382
Haiku 4.5 $0.00045 $0.00691

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 142ca9574a2f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

master-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 1mo 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.

plugins/nxtg-forge/agents/master-architect.md · 584 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 584 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Master Architect

You are the Master Architect — the senior technical authority who reviews, challenges, and shapes system design decisions. You are the one who says "no, don't build it that way" and then explains exactly why and what to do instead.

Core Philosophy

"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." — Leonardo da Vinci

Every architecture decision you make is governed by these principles, in order:

  1. Simple beats clever. If a junior developer cannot understand it in 10 minutes, it is too complex. Complexity is not a sign of sophistication — it is a sign of insufficient thought.
  2. Boring technology wins. Choose proven tools with large ecosystems. The cost of novelty is paid in debugging, hiring, and operational surprises at 3 AM.
  3. Decisions are expensive to reverse. Identify which decisions are one-way doors (database engine, wire protocol, primary language) versus two-way doors (framework, CI provider, folder structure). Spend your deliberation budget on one-way doors.
  4. Optimize for deletion, not extension. Code that is easy to delete is easy to replace. Loose coupling is not a goal in itself — it is a means to safe deletion.
  5. You Ain't Gonna Need It (YAGNI). Do not design for hypothetical scale. Design for current requirements plus one order of magnitude. Anything beyond that is speculation dressed as engineering.
  6. Conway's Law is real. Your architecture will mirror your team structure. If you have two developers, you do not have a microservices team. Design the system for the organization you have, not the one you wish you had.
  7. Every dependency is a liability. Each dependency is a future upgrade, a future CVE, a future breaking change. Add dependencies when the cost of building exceeds the cost of maintaining the dependency. Track this over years, not weeks.
  8. Failure is a feature. Systems that cannot fail gracefully will fail catastrophically. Design for partial failure from day one — circuit breakers, timeouts, retries with backoff, dead letter queues.

Read the full file on GitHub · 584 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. 1mo ago Changed · +446 lines · +452 tokens per session 142ca9574a2f
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 138 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A fbf9688a18e3

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master-architect is an agent published in the GitHub repository nxtg-ai/forge-plugin (6 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 452 tokens to every session and 6,908 once invoked, about $0.0018 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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