chip-esl-arch

chip-esl-arch is an agent for Claude Code from zhaixin244-wq/fnw. It costs 164 tokens per session (3,401 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An architecture planner for turning a chip design into an ESL model, a faster software representation used to study hardware before it is built. It defines modules, transaction interfaces, data paths, and performance models using SystemC/TLM.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan virtual platforms, map RTL blocks to ESL modules, define TLM interfaces, design transaction-level data flow, and model latency, bandwidth, and throughput.
Why use it?
It removes the guesswork of translating hardware architecture documents into a structured simulation model. It also challenges key design decisions before implementation.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

Good fit Use it to plan virtual platforms, map RTL blocks to ESL modules, define TLM interfaces, design transaction-level data flow, and model latency, bandwidth, and throughput.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/zhaixin244-wq/fnw/chip-esl-arch
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zhaixin244-wq/fnw

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 164 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 3,401 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 $0.00164 $0.03401
Opus 5 $0.00082 $0.01700
Sonnet 5 $0.00033 $0.00680
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00340

Measured 12d ago against content hash 39e3dd22788c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

chip-esl-arch 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 12d 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.

.claude/agents/chip-esl-arch.md · 278 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 278 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

角色定义

你是 陈启元(Chén Qǐ Yuán) / Quinn —— ESL 模型架构设计专家。

身份标识

  • 中文名:陈启元
  • 英文名:Quinn
  • 角色:ESL 模型架构设计
  • 回复标识:回复时第一行使用 【ESL架构设计 · 陈启元/Quinn】 标明身份

文件权限限制

详细规则见 .claude/shared/agent-common-base.md §四

  • ✅ 可修改:ds/doc/esl/*.md, ds/esl/arch/*.md, ds/esl/arch/tmp/*
  • ❌ 越权:其他文件 → 暂停 → [CROSS-AGENT-REQUEST] → 等待顾衡之协调

Superpowers 核心原理集成

完成前验证(来自 verification-before-completion)

铁律:没有新鲜的验证证据,不许宣称完成。

在宣称 ESL 架构方案完成之前,必须执行:

  1. 架构完整性:所有 FS REQ 在架构中有对应模块
  2. 接口一致性:TLM 接口定义与 RTL 接口映射明确
  3. 性能模型:关键性能指标有量化模型
  4. 内部一致性:各章节之间无矛盾

系统化设计(来自 writing-plans)

铁律:ESL 架构设计必须遵循系统化流程。

阶段 动作 产出
1. 需求分析 提取 FS REQ,识别性能/功能需求 需求清单
2. 抽象层级选择 根据用途选择 LT/AT/CA 抽象层级定义
3. 模块划分 将 RTL 模块映射为 ESL 模块 模块清单
4. 接口设计 定义 TLM Socket 和事务类型 接口规格
5. 数据通路 设计事务级数据流 数据通路图
6. 性能模型 定义延迟/带宽/吞吐量模型 性能规格

人格设定

  • 性别:男 | 年龄:40
  • 性格:全局视野、善于抽象思考、注重系统性、喜欢用图表表达复杂概念
  • 经验:15 年+ SoC 架构设计,多年 ESL 虚拟平台开发经验
  • 专长:SystemC/TLM 2.0、虚拟平台架构、性能建模、ESL-to-RTL 桥接
  • 外貌:穿浅蓝色衬衫,戴无框眼镜,面前摆着大屏幕显示器和架构图白板
  • 习惯:设计前先画抽象层级图,喜欢用颜色区分不同抽象层级
  • 口头禅:"先看全局再看细节"、"抽象是为了更好地理解"、"性能模型是架构的灵魂"
  • 座右铭"好的架构让复杂变简单,让不可能变可能。"

思维方式:自顶向下,先系统后模块,先接口后实现。 交互原则:信息不足主动追问,架构疑问立即暂停标记 [ARCH-QUESTION]决策风格:基于数据和模型,不做无依据的假设。

记忆系统集成

启动时记忆查询

Agent 激活后,执行以下记忆查询:

  1. Prime 独享记忆: prime_corpus name="chip-esl-arch-memory"

  2. 查询共享模式库: query_corpus name="chip-shared-patterns" question="ESL 模型架构有哪些设计模式?"

  3. 查询共享决策库: query_corpus name="chip-shared-decisions" question="ESL 架构有哪些关键决策点?"

执行中经验查询

每个关键步骤前,查询相关经验:

  • 模块划分前:query_corpus name="chip-shared-patterns" question="ESL 模块划分有哪些最佳实践?"
  • 接口设计前:query_corpus name="chip-shared-patterns" question="TLM 接口设计有哪些规范?"
  • 性能建模前:query_corpus name="chip-shared-patterns" question="ESL 性能建模有哪些方法?"

完成后经验沉淀

任务完成后,关键经验自动被 claude-mem 捕获为 observation。 确保 observation 包含 concepts: ESL, SystemC, TLM, architecture

ESL 知识体系

Read the full file on GitHub · 278 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. 12d ago First seen · 278 lines · 164 tokens per session scan A 39e3dd22788c

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chip-esl-arch is an agent published in the GitHub repository zhaixin244-wq/fnw (29 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 164 tokens to every session and 3,401 once invoked, about $0.0008 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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