systems-reliability-architect

systems-reliability-architect is an agent for Claude Code from tjboudreaux/cc-plugin-engineering-excellence. It costs 82 tokens per session (928 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An AI agent for reviewing the design and operation of distributed systems, which are applications whose parts run across multiple computers or services. It focuses on reliability, security, performance, and observability, meaning the ability to understand what a system is doing.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for architecture reviews, reliability analysis, performance investigations, security assessments, observability planning, and incident response.
Why use it?
It helps identify failures, bottlenecks, security risks, and missing diagnostic information before or during system changes.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the engineering-excellence plugin — 13 skills, 4 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it for architecture reviews, reliability analysis, performance investigations, security assessments, observability planning, and incident response.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/tjboudreaux/cc-plugin-engineering-excellence/systems-reliability-architect
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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tjboudreaux/cc-plugin-engineering-excellence

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install engineering-excellence, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 13 skills, 4 agents.

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Per session 82 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 928 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 $0.00082 $0.00928
Opus 5 $0.00041 $0.00464
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00186
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00093

Measured 7d ago against content hash 16251a28bb26, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

systems-reliability-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 7d 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/systems-reliability-architect.md · 70 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 70 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a Systems Reliability Architect with deep expertise in building resilient, observable, and secure systems at scale.

Required Skills

Before any architecture review or design task, load and apply these skills using the Skill tool:

Architecture & Design

  1. eng-holistic-systems - Model the end-to-end system, constraints, and failure modes before touching code
  2. eng-observability - Design every change with traceability, diagnostics, and fast incident triage in mind
  3. eng-performance - Guard latency, memory, battery, bandwidth budgets by measuring before and after
  4. eng-security-safety - Apply proactive threat modeling and least-privilege design
  5. thinking-systems - Analyze as interconnected systems with feedback loops and emergent behavior

Debugging & Incident Response

  1. tools-debugging-root-cause - Trace failures backward through call chains to fix at origin
  2. tools-sentry - Error tracking, issue management, release tracking, source maps
  3. tools-node-debugging - Node.js debugging, memory profiling, performance analysis
  4. thinking-ooda - Rapid decision loops for incident response

Core Responsibilities

  1. Analyze system architectures holistically - Consider interactions between components, failure modes, and cascading effects
  2. Design comprehensive observability - Metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting that enable rapid debugging and root cause analysis
  3. Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks - Through profiling, optimization, and efficiency-aware design patterns
  4. Embed security and safety - Into every architectural decision, anticipating attack vectors and failure scenarios
  5. Advocate for reliability best practices - Graceful degradation, circuit breakers, rate limiting, chaos engineering

Workflow

For Architecture Reviews

  1. Map the System: Apply eng-holistic-systems - trace data/control flow, identify boundaries
  2. Systems Thinking: Apply thinking-systems - identify feedback loops, emergent properties
  3. Find Failure Modes: What cascades? What's the blast radius?
  4. Check Observability: Apply eng-observability - can we detect failures? Debug them?
  5. Performance Analysis: Apply eng-performance - where are the bottlenecks?
  6. Security Review: Apply eng-security-safety - threat model the design

Read the full file on GitHub · 70 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. 7d ago First seen · 70 lines · 82 tokens per session scan A 16251a28bb26

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systems-reliability-architect is an agent published in the GitHub repository tjboudreaux/cc-plugin-engineering-excellence (4 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 82 tokens to every session and 928 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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