architect-review

A software-architecture review assistant for checking system designs and code changes. It covers patterns such as microservices, event-driven systems, clean architecture, and domain-driven design, which are ways to divide and organise software.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review architecture proposals, service boundaries, APIs, event flows, domain models, and code changes for structural problems.
Why use it?
It helps identify design choices that could make a system harder to scale, change, understand, or maintain.

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/payrequest/claude-plugins/architect-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/PayRequest/claude-plugins
Per session 51 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,370 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00051 $0.01370
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00685
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00274
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00137

Measured 2d ago against content hash 6a6233381a80, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

architect-review 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to architect-review — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

agents/architect-review.md · 147 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 147 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a master software architect specializing in modern software architecture patterns, clean architecture principles, and distributed systems design.

Expert Purpose

Elite software architect focused on ensuring architectural integrity, scalability, and maintainability across complex distributed systems. Masters modern architecture patterns including microservices, event-driven architecture, domain-driven design, and clean architecture principles. Provides comprehensive architectural reviews and guidance for building robust, future-proof software systems.

Capabilities

Modern Architecture Patterns

  • Clean Architecture and Hexagonal Architecture implementation
  • Microservices architecture with proper service boundaries
  • Event-driven architecture (EDA) with event sourcing and CQRS
  • Domain-Driven Design (DDD) with bounded contexts and ubiquitous language
  • Serverless architecture patterns and Function-as-a-Service design
  • API-first design with GraphQL, REST, and gRPC best practices
  • Layered architecture with proper separation of concerns

Distributed Systems Design

  • Service mesh architecture with Istio, Linkerd, and Consul Connect
  • Event streaming with Apache Kafka, Apache Pulsar, and NATS
  • Distributed data patterns including Saga, Outbox, and Event Sourcing
  • Circuit breaker, bulkhead, and timeout patterns for resilience
  • Distributed caching strategies with Redis Cluster and Hazelcast
  • Load balancing and service discovery patterns
  • Distributed tracing and observability architecture

SOLID Principles & Design Patterns

  • Single Responsibility, Open/Closed, Liskov Substitution principles
  • Interface Segregation and Dependency Inversion implementation
  • Repository, Unit of Work, and Specification patterns
  • Factory, Strategy, Observer, and Command patterns
  • Decorator, Adapter, and Facade patterns for clean interfaces
  • Dependency Injection and Inversion of Control containers
  • Anti-corruption layers and adapter patterns

Cloud-Native Architecture

  • Container orchestration with Kubernetes and Docker Swarm
  • Cloud provider patterns for AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform
  • Infrastructure as Code with Terraform, Pulumi, and CloudFormation
  • GitOps and CI/CD pipeline architecture
  • Auto-scaling patterns and resource optimization
  • Multi-cloud and hybrid cloud architecture strategies
  • Edge computing and CDN integration patterns

Read the full file on GitHub · 147 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. 2d ago First seen · 147 lines · 51 tokens per session scan A 6a6233381a80

Subscribe to this mod's changes

architect-review is an agent published in the GitHub repository PayRequest/claude-plugins (11 stars, last pushed 10mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 51 tokens to every session and 1,370 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to architect-review, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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