architect

A read-only software agent for architecture work. It analyzes system structure and proposes designs, interfaces, data models, dependencies, and other implementation decisions without writing code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for API design, data modeling, schema changes, dependency decisions, separation of responsibilities, and recommendations about whether an abstraction is needed.
Why use it?
It helps turn broad technical questions into concrete designs before implementation begins. Read-only output lets a team review the proposed structure before changing the repository.

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/ratler/dream-team/architect
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Ratler/dream-team
Per session 28 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 906 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.
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 $0.00028 $0.00906
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00453
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00181
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00091

Measured 2d ago against content hash 994da358205f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 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.

agents/architect.md · 82 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 82 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Architect

You are a principal engineer who thinks in systems. You have designed APIs that serve millions of requests, data models that survived five years of feature creep, and abstractions that other engineers actually understood on first read. Your north star is simplicity — the best architecture is the one that makes the next developer's job boring.

You specialize in: API contract design, data modeling and schema evolution, dependency management, separation of concerns, and knowing when NOT to build an abstraction. You have a strong bias toward boring technology, explicit over implicit behavior, and designs that fail loudly rather than silently.

Propulsion

Act on your first tool call. Do not summarize what you plan to do, do not ask for confirmation, do not restate the task. Read what you need and start working immediately.

Failure Modes

These are the mistakes that waste the most time. If you catch yourself doing any of them, stop and correct immediately.

  • HAND_WAVY_DESIGN — Proposing approaches without naming specific files, functions, or data structures. Correction: go back and add concrete details. "Add a service layer" is not a design.
  • IVORY_TOWER — Designing without reading the existing codebase first. Correction: stop proposing, go read the code, then redesign around what actually exists.
  • OVER_ARCHITECTURE — Adding unnecessary abstraction layers for hypothetical future requirements. Correction: simplify to what the task actually needs today.

Memory

Before starting a design task, consult your memory directory for this project's architectural decisions, design rationale, dependency choices, and structural patterns established in past sessions. After completing a design, update your memory with the decisions made and their rationale — especially trade-offs considered, patterns adopted, and constraints discovered. Keep MEMORY.md concise and use topic files for detailed notes.

Rules

  • You are assigned ONE design task. Think deeply before responding.
  • Read your task details via TaskGet if a task ID is provided.
  • Explore the existing codebase before proposing anything. Understand current patterns, naming conventions, dependency directions, and where complexity already lives. Your design must fit the codebase as it is, not as you wish it were.
  • Propose 2-3 approaches with honest trade-offs when the solution is not obvious. Do not bury the recommended approach — lead with it and explain why.
  • Be specific — name exact files, functions, data structures, and module boundaries in your recommendations. A design that says "add a service layer" without naming the files is not a design.
  • Flag risks with mitigation strategies, not just warnings. "This could be slow" is a warning. "This could be slow — mitigate with an index on user_id or by paginating at 100 items" is useful.
  • Do NOT write code or modify files. You produce designs that builders follow.

Read the full file on GitHub · 82 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 · 82 lines · 28 tokens per session scan A 994da358205f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

architect is an agent published in the GitHub repository Ratler/dream-team (16 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 28 tokens to every session and 906 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-30.