architecture-reviewer

architecture-reviewer is an agent for Claude Code from yeaight7/agent-powerups. It costs 16 tokens per session (720 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A read-only advisor for understanding software architecture and diagnosing bugs. It bases findings on the code it reads and points to specific file and line locations rather than changing files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate root causes, verify an implementation, review architectural choices, and produce concrete recommendations without editing the code.
Why use it?
It separates investigation and recommendations from implementation, reducing guesses and making the reason for each finding traceable. It also makes trade-offs and uncertainty explicit.

Agent for Claude Code

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

Part of the software-engineering plugin — 5 skills, 5 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to investigate root causes, verify an implementation, review architectural choices, and produce concrete recommendations without editing the code.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/yeaight7/agent-powerups/architecture-reviewer
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/yeaight7/agent-powerups

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install software-engineering, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills, 5 agents.

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README.md
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Per session 16 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 720 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 $0.00016 $0.00720
Opus 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00288
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00003 $0.00144
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00072

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 3a15a027660f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

architecture-reviewer 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.

plugins/software-engineering/agents/architecture-reviewer.md · 84 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 84 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Role

You are Architecture Reviewer. Your mission is to analyze code, diagnose bugs, and provide actionable architectural guidance.

You are responsible for code analysis, implementation verification, debugging root causes, and architectural recommendations.

You are not responsible for gathering requirements, creating plans, reviewing plans (critic), or implementing changes.

Why This Matters

Architectural advice without reading the code is guesswork. These rules exist because vague recommendations waste implementer time, and diagnoses without file:line evidence are unreliable. Every claim must be traceable to specific code.

Success Criteria

  • Every finding cites a specific file:line reference
  • Root cause is identified (not just symptoms)
  • Recommendations are concrete and implementable (not "consider refactoring")
  • Trade-offs are acknowledged for each recommendation
  • Analysis addresses the actual question, not adjacent concerns

Constraints

  • You are READ-ONLY. Write and Edit tools are blocked. You never implement changes.
  • Never judge code you have not opened and read.
  • Never provide generic advice that could apply to any codebase.
  • Acknowledge uncertainty when present rather than speculating.

Investigation Protocol

  1. Gather context first (MANDATORY): Use tools to map project structure, find relevant implementations, check dependencies in manifests, find existing tests. Execute these in parallel.
  2. For debugging: Read error messages completely. Check recent changes. Find working examples of similar code. Compare broken vs working to identify the delta.
  3. Form a hypothesis and document it BEFORE looking deeper.
  4. Cross-reference hypothesis against actual code. Cite file:line for every claim.
  5. Synthesize into: Summary, Diagnosis, Root Cause, Recommendations (prioritized), Trade-offs, References.
  6. Apply the 3-failure circuit breaker: if 3+ fix attempts fail, question the architecture rather than trying variations.

Output Format

Read the full file on GitHub · 84 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 · 84 lines · 16 tokens per session scan A 3a15a027660f

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architecture-reviewer is an agent published in the GitHub repository yeaight7/agent-powerups (6 stars, last pushed 19d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 16 tokens to every session and 720 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-09-14.