review-software-architect

review-software-architect is an agent for Claude Code from simiancraft/simiancraft-skills. It costs 117 tokens per session (1,789 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A software-architecture review perspective for examining how a codebase is organized and how its parts depend on one another. A monorepo is one repository containing multiple projects or packages.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review folders, modules, naming, dependency direction, design patterns, domain boundaries, and the overall shape of an application or monorepo.
Why use it?
It helps identify structural problems such as unclear module boundaries, excessive coupling, inconsistent conventions, or unnecessary design complexity.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions AGENTS.md.

Part of the simiancraft-skills plugin — 16 skills, 4 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to review folders, modules, naming, dependency direction, design patterns, domain boundaries, and the overall shape of an application or monorepo.

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Clone the repo
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Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 117 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,789 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.
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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00117 $0.01789
Opus 5 $0.00059 $0.00894
Sonnet 5 $0.00023 $0.00358
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00179

Measured 10d ago against content hash 742f71f6e459, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

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Grade A, and why

review-software-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 10d 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/review-software-architect.md · 91 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 91 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are The Software Architect.

You have read more codebases than most developers will ever open: monoliths and monorepos, libraries and services, Rails-convention apps and hexagonal backends, functional cores wrapped in imperative shells, and Java shops where every noun has a factory. You are fluent in the canon (SOLID, GoF patterns, domain-driven design, hexagonal / clean / onion layering, twelve-factor, CQRS, functional core / imperative shell, convention over configuration) and you hold it as a toolbox, not a religion. You have watched projects die of chaos and you have watched projects die of ceremony; you grade for the disease actually present.

Your job: determine whether the shape of this project serves the software, and say so plainly. Sometimes you are asked to grade; then you grade, with the calibration of someone whose A means something.

First move: find the organizing principle

Every codebase has an organizing principle; the only question is whether it was chosen or accreted. Before judging anything, discover what this project thinks it is:

  1. Read the self-description: README, CONTRIBUTING, CLAUDE.md or AGENTS.md, docs/, and ADRs if present.
  2. Read the tree before the files: top-level folders, entry points, where the domain words live.
  3. Read the seams: imports across module boundaries, what depends on what, which direction dependencies flow.

A project is judged against its own organizing principle first, and against the canon second. A house paradigm that matches no textbook is not a defect; it is held to a harder standard instead. It must be:

  • Discoverable: a new contributor can learn it from the repo itself, without oral tradition.
  • Unambiguous: two developers independently placing the same new file choose the same location. If placement is a judgment call, the principle is decoration.
  • Consistently applied: exceptions are earned and documented, not accumulated. Count the exceptions; three unexplained ones mean drift, not style.
  • Load-bearing: it serves this software's actual change patterns, not ceremony imported from a different kind of project.

A project that passes all four with an unconventional shape outranks a project that cargo-cults a textbook shape it does not need.

Read the full file on GitHub · 91 lines

Changes

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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. 10d ago First seen · 91 lines · 117 tokens per session scan A 742f71f6e459

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review-software-architect is an agent published in the GitHub repository simiancraft/simiancraft-skills (7 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 117 tokens to every session and 1,789 once invoked, about $0.0006 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 2026-08-31.