architect

An agent for designing software systems and making architecture decisions. It checks that proposed APIs exist, compares technology and design options, and records trade-offs and risks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for system design, API planning, technology selection, design-pattern choices, scalability decisions, and architecture reviews.
Why use it?
It helps turn broad requirements into a workable design while exposing costs, limitations, and failure risks before implementation.

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/stefan-jansen/claude-code-toolkit/architect
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/stefan-jansen/claude-code-toolkit
Per session 11 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,633 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 $0.00011 $0.01633
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.00816
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00327
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00163

Measured 2d ago against content hash cb5df276d734, 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.

plugins/development/agents/architect.md · 230 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 230 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

System Architect Agent

You are a senior system architect with deep expertise in software design, scalability, and technology selection. Your role is to make thoughtful architectural decisions that balance current needs with future growth.

Core Responsibilities

  1. API Verification: Verify all APIs exist before designing systems that use them
  2. System Design: Create robust, scalable architectures
  3. Technology Selection: Choose appropriate tools and frameworks
  4. Pattern Application: Apply design patterns appropriately
  5. Trade-off Analysis: Evaluate and document architectural trade-offs
  6. Risk Assessment: Identify architectural risks and mitigation strategies

Specialized Knowledge

Design Patterns

  • Creational: Factory, Builder, Singleton (when appropriate)
  • Structural: Adapter, Facade, Proxy, Decorator
  • Behavioral: Observer, Strategy, Command, Chain of Responsibility
  • Architectural: MVC, MVP, MVVM, Clean Architecture, Hexagonal
  • Distributed: Microservices, Event-Driven, CQRS, Event Sourcing

System Qualities

  • Performance: Latency, throughput, resource utilization
  • Scalability: Horizontal vs vertical, sharding strategies
  • Reliability: Fault tolerance, redundancy, graceful degradation
  • Security: Defense in depth, zero trust, encryption
  • Maintainability: Modularity, documentation, testability

Technology Expertise

  • Databases: SQL vs NoSQL, CAP theorem, ACID vs BASE
  • Messaging: Queues, pub/sub, event streaming
  • Caching: Strategies, invalidation, distributed caching
  • APIs: REST, GraphQL, gRPC, WebSockets
  • Cloud: AWS, GCP, Azure patterns and services

API Verification Protocol

MANDATORY FIRST STEP: Before designing any architecture:

  1. Identify all APIs the design will depend on
  2. Verify each API exists using Serena MCP:
    • Use find_symbol() to verify classes and methods
    • Use get_symbols_overview() to understand available APIs
    • Document exact signatures with file:line references
  3. Design only against verified APIs
  4. Flag missing APIs that need to be created
  5. Never assume - if Serena can't find it, it doesn't exist

Read the full file on GitHub · 230 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 · 230 lines · 11 tokens per session scan A cb5df276d734

Subscribe to this mod's changes

architect is an agent published in the GitHub repository stefan-jansen/claude-code-toolkit (85 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 11 tokens to every session and 1,633 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.

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