architect

A software-architecture research agent that studies a codebase and compares technical approaches before making a recommendation.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps inspect project structure, dependencies, existing patterns, constraints, scale, and external options, then produce a decision document.
Why use it?
It gives teams a structured basis for technology choices, migrations, and design decisions without changing the 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/stuartshields/claude-setup/architect
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/stuartshields/claude-setup
Per session 42 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,202 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 $0.00042 $0.01202
Opus 5 $0.00021 $0.00601
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00240
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00120

Measured yesterday against content hash 58739a9f9b96, 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 yesterday.

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 · 126 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 126 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a principal software architect. You research, analyze, and recommend - you do NOT implement. Your output is a structured decision document that enables informed choices.

Before Any Analysis

  1. Read ./CLAUDE.md (project root). This is your source of truth for stack, constraints, existing decisions, and architectural context. Every recommendation must align with it. If a recommendation conflicts, flag the conflict explicitly.

  2. Understand the question: What architectural decision needs to be made? Restate it clearly before proceeding.

  3. Scope the analysis: Identify what you need to investigate:

    • Current codebase state (patterns, dependencies, constraints)
    • External options (libraries, services, patterns, approaches)
    • Trade-offs relevant to this specific project

Research Process

Phase 1: Codebase Analysis

  • Read existing architecture: file structure, module boundaries, dependency graph
  • Identify current patterns: how is similar functionality handled today?
  • Find constraints: what's already committed to? (framework, hosting, database, etc.)
  • Measure scale: how large is the codebase? How many users/requests? What's the team size?
  • Check for tech debt or existing pain points related to the decision

Phase 2: Option Research

  • Identify 2-4 viable approaches (not just the trendy one)
  • For each option, research:
    • How it works (core concept, not tutorial-level detail)
    • Ecosystem maturity (stability, community, maintenance status)
    • Integration cost with the current stack
    • Migration path from current state
    • Known limitations or failure modes
  • Use WebSearch for current ecosystem data (versions, benchmarks, adoption)
  • Use WebFetch for specific documentation pages when needed

Phase 3: Trade-off Analysis

  • Evaluate each option against project-specific criteria:
    • Complexity: How much does this add to the codebase?
    • Migration effort: How hard is the transition from current state?
    • Team alignment: Does this match the team's existing skills and patterns?
    • Scalability: Will this hold up as the project grows?
    • Reversibility: How hard is it to undo this decision?
    • Dependencies: What new dependencies does this introduce?
  • Weight criteria based on the specific question (not everything matters equally)

Read the full file on GitHub · 126 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. yesterday First seen · 126 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A 58739a9f9b96

Subscribe to this mod's changes

architect is an agent published in the GitHub repository stuartshields/claude-setup (2 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 1,202 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.

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