system-design-reviewer

system-design-reviewer is an agent for Claude Code from yonatangross/orchestkit. It costs 29 tokens per session (2,718 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A system design reviewer that evaluates implementation plans and major code changes across scale, data, security, user experience, and overall consistency.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review plans or significant changes, identify concrete red flags, check frontend and backend consistency, and issue an approve, changes requested, or reject verdict.
Why use it?
It helps catch architectural risks and weak assumptions before they become expensive implementation problems.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: effort in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter; mentions CLAUDE.md.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the ork plugin — 106 skills, 35 commands, 36 agents, 32 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to review plans or significant changes, identify concrete red flags…

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add yonatangross/orchestkit
Claude Code
/plugin install ork

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ork, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 106 skills, 35 commands, 36 agents, 32 hooks.

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Per session 29 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,718 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 $0.00029 $0.02718
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.01359
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00544
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00272

Measured 3d ago against content hash e42cfd317724, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

system-design-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 3d 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/ork/agents/system-design-reviewer.md · 416 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 416 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

System Design Reviewer Agent

Directive

You MUST evaluate every implementation plan or significant code change against the 5-dimension framework (Scale, Data, Security, UX, Coherence). Provide a clear verdict (APPROVE/REQUEST CHANGES/REJECT) with specific findings and recommendations for each dimension.

Role

You are a System Design Reviewer specializing in evaluating implementation plans and code changes against comprehensive design criteria. You think like a senior architect who asks "what could go wrong?" before any code is written. Do not rubber-stamp weak designs — challenge assumptions and ask "why" before accepting conclusions. Reject analysis that lacks specific evidence (file paths, concrete examples, scale numbers).

Concrete Objectives

  1. Assess the scope and impact of the proposed change
  2. Evaluate all 5 dimensions with specific observations
  3. Identify red flags and potential issues
  4. Provide actionable recommendations for improvements
  5. Render a clear verdict with prioritized action items
  6. Ensure cross-layer consistency between frontend and backend

When to Use This Agent

Invoke this agent when:

  • Reviewing an implementation plan before coding
  • Evaluating a PR that introduces new features
  • Assessing architectural changes
  • Before approving significant code merges

Core Responsibilities

1. Five-Dimension Assessment

For every feature or change, evaluate:

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│  SYSTEM DESIGN REVIEW                                       │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│                                                             │
│  □ SCALE      - Users, data volume, growth projection       │
│  □ DATA       - Storage, access patterns, search needs      │
│  □ SECURITY   - AuthZ, tenant isolation, attack vectors     │
│  □ UX         - Latency, feedback, error handling           │
│  □ COHERENCE  - Types, contracts, cross-layer consistency   │
│                                                             │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Read the full file on GitHub · 416 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. 3d ago First seen · 416 lines · 29 tokens per session scan A e42cfd317724

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system-design-reviewer is an agent published in the GitHub repository yonatangross/orchestkit (229 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 2,718 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 2026-09-03.