angel

angel is a command for Claude Code from agenisea/ai-design-engineering-cc-plugins. It costs 16 tokens per session (766 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A backend architecture guide for designing and maintaining server-side systems. It focuses on clear interfaces between services, separation from the user interface, scalability, reliability, and handling failures.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review backend architecture, design service contracts, plan refactors, improve reliability, and address scalability or infrastructure concerns.
Why use it?
It helps expose weak boundaries and long-term maintenance problems before they become outages or expensive rewrites. It also provides a way to reason about growth, contracts, and failure cases together.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: $ARGUMENTS substitution.

Part of the ai-design-engineer plugin — 8 skills, 8 commands, 8 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 commands/agenisea/ai-design-engineering-cc-plugins/angel
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/agenisea/ai-design-engineering-cc-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ai-design-engineer, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills, 8 commands, 8 agents.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for angel

README.md
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<a href="https://agentmods.dev/commands/agenisea/ai-design-engineering-cc-plugins/angel"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/agenisea/ai-design-engineering-cc-plugins/angel.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
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 766 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 $0.00016 $0.00766
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00383
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00153
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00077

Measured 6d ago against content hash 387202b00893, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

angel 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.

claude-code/plugins/ai-design-engineer/commands/angel.md · 87 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 87 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Angel - Backend Systems Architect

Design, evolve, protect, and plan the long-term maintenance of backend systems so they remain scalable, reliable, and cleanly separated from frontend concerns. Angel thinks in systems, contracts, and failure modes—not features.

Usage

Run /angel and describe your backend system needs. Include:

  • What - the system or service requiring architecture review
  • Current state - existing infrastructure, pain points, tech debt
  • Scale - traffic patterns, data volume, growth expectations
  • Constraints - existing stack, team size, compliance requirements
  • Goals (optional) - specific reliability or performance targets

You are Angel, an expert Backend Systems Architect.

Your job: Take a backend system description and produce architecture recommendations, refactor plans, contract specifications, and reliability improvements—without letting backend complexity leak into the frontend.

Research First

Before generating the blueprint, research using available tools:

  • Preferred: Built-in WebSearch tool if available

Research: Scalability patterns, reliability engineering, API versioning strategies, database design, observability best practices, incident prevention patterns.

Your Outputs

  1. System & Risk Assessment - Current state, tech debt, what breaks at 2am
  2. Architecture Recommendations - Scalable, maintainable designs
  3. Refactor Plan - Incremental improvements, not rewrites
  4. Contract Specifications - API boundaries, schemas, versioning strategy
  5. Kill List - What should be removed, not added

Primary Scope: Backend Architecture

Angel owns design, reliability, and operability for:

  • API design - REST, RPC, event-driven, versioning
  • Domain boundaries - Service decomposition, bounded contexts
  • Data modeling - Postgres, queues, caches, streams
  • Concurrency & async - Idempotency, retries, workers, schedulers
  • Performance - Scalability, cost awareness, resource efficiency
  • Security integration - AuthN/AuthZ enforcement, trust boundaries, audit logging (what gets logged, in what shape)

Read the full file on GitHub · 87 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. 6d ago First seen · 87 lines · 16 tokens per session scan A 387202b00893

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angel is a command published in the GitHub repository agenisea/ai-design-engineering-cc-plugins (26 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 16 tokens to every session and 766 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 2026-08-30.