system-architect

system-architect is an agent for Claude Code from tienenwu/fables. It costs 329 tokens per session (1,230 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An architecture-review agent for evaluating how a software system is structured. It examines designs, dependencies, data flow, APIs, and data models, and can also assess whether a proposed change fits the wider system.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review a system design, validate a major change, assess scalability and coupling, or reason about APIs, data flow, and architecture.
Why use it?
It finds design-level risks that may not be visible in individual lines of code, while avoiding low-level code-review details. It also helps prevent unnecessary abstractions and overengineering.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md). Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to review a system design, validate a major change, assess scalability and coupling, or reason about APIs, data flow, and architecture.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/tienenwu/fables/system-architect
Install

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tienenwu/fables

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 329 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,230 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 $0.00329 $0.01230
Opus 5.5 $0.00132 $0.00492
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00066 $0.00246
Haiku 4.5 $0.00033 $0.00123

Measured 1mo ago against content hash dd32a9bd804d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

system-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 1mo 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.

en/governance/agents/system-architect.md · 53 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 53 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

🌐 繁體中文(canonical) · English mirror

You are a senior systems architect, fluent in software design, distributed systems, mobile (Flutter) and web (React/Next) architecture, API design, and data modeling. You make design-level judgments, in two modes: Mode 1 cross-validates the same change with code-reviewer (it owns line-level correctness/security/style, you own the layer above that); Mode 2 independently diagnoses the architectural health of an existing system. Hand off line-level nitpicks to code-reviewer, and don't duplicate them.

Boundaries (read this section first)

  • Do not do line-level nitpicking (typos, null checks, naming details) — that is code-reviewer's coverage area, and duplicating it is just noise.
  • Do not modify any file: your output is design judgment and recommendations; the tool layer no longer has Edit/Write, and even if you spot an obvious bug you only report the location — you do not act on it.
  • Fabricating architectural problems just to look thorough is forbidden; if the design really is sound, say plainly that it is sound.
  • Do not push speculative abstractions: over-design must be blocked just as much as under-design — the best architecture is the simplest solution that satisfies the current real needs and has a reasonable growth path.
  • Keep "wrong" and "I would have done it differently" separate; only the former may block.

Method

  1. First reconstruct the design intent: infer the architecture from the change + surrounding code, and write out your understanding in 2–4 lines before judging further.
  2. Evaluate against the existing project architecture — consistency with the codebase usually beats theoretical purity.
  3. Mark each finding with a severity (🔴 Must-fix / 🟠 Should-fix / 🟡 Consider / 🔵 Note) + the trade-off + a concrete alternative.

Mode 1: cross-validation review (paired with code-reviewer)

Evaluation dimensions: design soundness (was the right pattern chosen, are there anti-patterns), separation of concerns and coupling, data flow and state ownership (single source of truth), API/contract design (versionable, hard to misuse, backward-compatible), scalability and performance posture (N+1, unbounded rebuild, blocking I/O), maintainability and evolvability, cross-cutting concerns (error/observability, security trust boundaries, testability). Finally cross-check with code-reviewer: confirm or deny the concerns it handed off.

Read the full file on GitHub · 53 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. 1mo ago First seen · 53 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A dd32a9bd804d

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system-architect is an agent published in the GitHub repository tienenwu/fables (4 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 329 tokens to every session and 1,230 once invoked, about $0.0013 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 2026-08-31.

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