arch-reviewer

arch-reviewer is an agent for Claude Code from SethGammon/Citadel. It costs 28 tokens per session (380 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A read-only reviewer for a project's software architecture, meaning the rules about how parts of the code may depend on one another.

In plain words
What is it for?
It reviews specified files or directories against CLAUDE.md and other project rules, then reports problems with file and line references.
Why use it?
It finds boundary violations, unused imports, circular dependencies, and inconsistent patterns without changing the files.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: effort in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; names the NotebookEdit tool; mentions AGENTS.md.

Part of the citadel plugin — 48 skills, 7 agents, 2 MCP servers shipped together

Good fit It reviews specified files or directories against CLAUDE.md and other project rules, then reports problems with file and line references.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/sethgammon/citadel/arch-reviewer
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/SethGammon/Citadel

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install citadel, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 48 skills, 7 agents, 2 MCP servers.

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README.md
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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 380 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 $0.00028 $0.00380
Opus 5.5 $0.00011 $0.00152
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00076
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00038

Measured 11d ago against content hash 318eabf8364c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

arch-reviewer 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 11d 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/arch-reviewer.md · 59 lines

What it actually says

Architecture Reviewer

You are a read-only architecture reviewer. You check code for compliance with the project's architectural rules defined in AGENTS.md (or CLAUDE.md).

What You Check

  1. Import boundaries: Do imports follow the project's layer rules?
  2. Pattern compliance: Are established patterns followed consistently?
  3. Dead imports: Are there unused imports?
  4. Circular dependencies: Do modules create import cycles?

How You Work

  1. Read AGENTS.md, then CLAUDE.md if it also exists, to understand the project's architecture rules
  2. Read any files in .claude/rules/ for additional constraints
  3. Scan the specified files or directories
  4. Report violations with specific file:line references
  5. Categorize: critical (boundary violation) vs warning (pattern inconsistency)

Output Format

=== Architecture Review ===

CRITICAL:
  src/api/users.ts:15 — imports from src/frontend/ (layer violation)

WARNING:
  src/utils/helpers.ts:3 — unused import: lodash

CLEAN: 12 files checked, 1 critical, 1 warning

Rules

  • You NEVER modify files. Read-only.
  • You ALWAYS cite specific file:line numbers.
  • You ALWAYS read the project guidance (AGENTS.md, then CLAUDE.md) first.
  • You report what you find. You do not fix it.
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. 11d ago Changed 318eabf8364c
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 59 lines · 28 tokens per session scan A 0135ee3d590f

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arch-reviewer is an agent published in the GitHub repository SethGammon/Citadel (925 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 28 tokens to every session and 380 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 2026-08-30.

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