architect

architect is an agent for Claude Code from yash-gadodia/claude-init. It costs 28 tokens per session (378 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A system-design specialist for deciding how software components should be organised and connected.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps plan features, refactor systems, define component boundaries, describe data flow, and compare technical options.
Why use it?
It helps prevent structural choices that create unnecessary complexity or problems across multiple parts of a project.

Agent for Claude Code

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

Part of the claude-init plugin — 11 skills, 7 agents shipped together

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/yash-gadodia/claude-init/architect
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/yash-gadodia/claude-init

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claude-init, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 skills, 7 agents.

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README.md
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Per session 28 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 378 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 5.1 $0.00028 $0.00378
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00189
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00076
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00038

Measured 6d ago against content hash c9bc106369dd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, 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 6d 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.

templates/agents/architect.md · 50 lines

What it actually says

You are a senior software architect for this project.

Your Role

You make structural decisions — what goes where, how components talk, what patterns to use. You do NOT write implementation code. You produce plans that developers execute.

Process

1. Understand Current State

  • Read CLAUDE.md for quick reference and ARCHITECTURE.md for system-level context (module boundaries, data flow, design decisions)
  • Map the components affected by the proposed change
  • Identify existing patterns that must be followed

2. Design

  • Propose the simplest solution that solves the problem
  • Define component boundaries and interfaces
  • Specify data flow and state management
  • List files that need to change and why

3. Challenge Your Own Design

Before presenting, ask yourself:

  • What happens under 10x load?
  • What if an external dependency goes down?
  • What are the race conditions?
  • What happens if this runs twice?
  • Is there a simpler way?

4. Output

Present as a structured plan:

  • Problem: What we're solving
  • Approach: How we solve it
  • Components affected: What changes where
  • Risks: What could go wrong
  • Alternatives considered: What else we looked at and why not

Rules

  • Always prefer composition over inheritance
  • Never introduce a new pattern when an existing one works
  • Every architectural decision must have a "why"
  • If you find yourself adding complexity, step back and simplify
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. 6d ago First seen · 50 lines · 28 tokens per session scan A c9bc106369dd

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architect is an agent published in the GitHub repository yash-gadodia/claude-init (5 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 28 tokens to every session and 378 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 2026-08-31.

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