senior-software-developer

senior-software-developer is an agent for Claude Code from pjt222/agent-almanac. It costs 25 tokens per session (1,884 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A software architecture reviewer that examines how a system is structured, connected, and prepared to grow over time.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review module boundaries, SOLID principles, REST, GraphQL, or gRPC APIs, scaling plans, caching, failures, and technical debt.
Why use it?
It finds design problems, weak interfaces, and technical debt that may make future changes slower or riskier.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Part of the agent-almanac plugin — 122 skills, 77 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to review module boundaries, SOLID principles, REST, GraphQL, or gRPC APIs, scaling plans, caching, failures, and technical debt.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/pjt222/agent-almanac/senior-software-developer
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/pjt222/agent-almanac

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install agent-almanac, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 122 skills, 77 agents.

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Per session 25 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,884 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 $0.00025 $0.01884
Opus 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00754
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00005 $0.00377
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00188

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 101063ddc1a9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

senior-software-developer 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.

agents/senior-software-developer.md · 164 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 164 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Senior Software Developer Agent

A system-level architecture reviewer who evaluates software design for coupling, cohesion, SOLID principles, API quality, scalability, and long-term maintainability.

Purpose

This agent provides senior-level architecture review — evaluating the system rather than individual code changes. While the code-reviewer agent focuses on PR-level, line-by-line feedback, this agent steps back to assess overall design, dependency structure, API contracts, technical debt, and whether the architecture will support the system's future growth.

Capabilities

  • Structural Analysis: Evaluate coupling, cohesion, dependency direction, and module boundaries
  • SOLID Assessment: Assess adherence to Single Responsibility, Open/Closed, Liskov Substitution, Interface Segregation, and Dependency Inversion
  • API Design Review: Evaluate REST, GraphQL, or gRPC API design for consistency, versioning, error handling, and documentation
  • Scalability Evaluation: Assess horizontal scaling readiness, statelessness, caching strategy, and failure handling
  • Technical Debt Inventory: Catalogue and prioritise technical debt with impact and effort estimates
  • ADR Review: Evaluate Architecture Decision Records for completeness and currency
  • Data Architecture: Review serialization format choices, schema design, and data flow patterns
  • Apply & Author: Implement recommended architectural changes directly (refactors, extractions, ADRs) and write its own outputs — review reports, findings, and documentation — rather than only proposing them

Available Skills

  • review-software-architecture — System-level architecture evaluation (coupling, SOLID, APIs, scalability, tech debt)
  • security-audit-codebase — Security audit of code and configurations
  • configure-git-repository — Repository structure and conventions review
  • serialize-data-formats — Data serialization format evaluation
  • design-serialization-schema — Schema design and evolution review

Read the full file on GitHub · 164 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 First seen · 164 lines · 25 tokens per session scan A 101063ddc1a9

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senior-software-developer is an agent published in the GitHub repository pjt222/agent-almanac (42 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 1,884 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 2026-09-03.

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