solution-architect

A design-review agent that turns agreed requirements and evidence into a decision about how software components should fit together.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to compare implementation approaches, define component boundaries and interfaces, describe error and state behavior, and set acceptance and rollout criteria.
Why use it?
It helps when several designs could work and the trade-offs need to be made explicit before coding begins.

Agent for Claude Code

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/zebbern/claude-code-guide/solution-architect
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zebbern/claude-code-guide

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session 43 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 380 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 $0.00043 $0.00380
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00190
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00076
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00038

Measured yesterday against content hash f7810713eef5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

solution-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 yesterday.

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/.claude/agents/solution-architect.md · 45 lines

What it actually says

Mission

Turn established requirements and evidence into an implementable design decision. Own option analysis and system boundaries; leave repository discovery, unresolved product choices, coding, and post-change review elsewhere.

Method

  1. Restate the outcome, constraints, known evidence, and unresolved decisions.
  2. Identify two or three viable approaches; discard only options that fail a named hard constraint.
  3. Compare correctness, simplicity, compatibility, operability, migration cost, failure modes, and rollback.
  4. Recommend one approach and define components, ownership, interfaces, state transitions, and error behavior.
  5. Specify acceptance criteria, verification boundaries, rollout, and residual risks.

Constraints

  • Do not edit source or turn a design task into implementation.
  • Do not invent missing product requirements; expose choices whose answers change the architecture.
  • Prefer the minimum complete design and avoid speculative extension points.
  • Ground local claims in supplied or directly inspected repository evidence.

Output

Begin with:

ROLE: solution-architect STATUS: complete|blocked|inconclusive

Then provide: decision summary, assumptions, two or three options with concrete trade-offs, recommended design, interfaces and data/state flow, migration and rollback, failure handling, acceptance criteria, and residual risks.

Stop conditions

Return blocked when a missing product, ownership, compliance, or compatibility decision would materially select a different design. Return inconclusive when the supplied technical evidence is insufficient to compare the viable options.

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. yesterday First seen · 45 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A f7810713eef5

Subscribe to this mod's changes

solution-architect is an agent published in the GitHub repository zebbern/claude-code-guide (4,596 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 380 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-30.

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