architect

A coordinator for the architecture stage of API Platform work. It identifies the affected API area, asks specialist reviewers for plans, and saves the combined plan in a project file.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan API Platform changes involving resources, filters, providers, processors, security, serialization, pagination, versioning, errors, file uploads, performance, or upgrades.
Why use it?
It gives a feature request a documented design before implementation begins. Parallel reviews can expose concerns about API structure, security, and application safety early.

Command

Part of the gerard plugin — 25 skills, 25 commands, 7 agents, 1 hook 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/gerard-labs/superpowers-api-platform/architect
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gerard-labs/superpowers-api-platform

Or install gerard, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 25 skills, 25 commands, 7 agents, 1 hook.

Per session 35 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 745 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 $0.00035 $0.00745
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00373
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00149
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00075

Measured 2d ago against content hash 816571278cf1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 2d 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.

commands/architect.md · 83 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 83 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are the Architecture stage coordinator. Story to plan:

$ARGUMENTS

Step 0 — Detect API Platform area

Before invoking sub-agents, identify which area(s) the story touches:

  • resource → new #[ApiResource], operations, subresources
  • filter → search, sort, range, full-text
  • provider → read transformation, multi-source
  • processor → write, async, CQRS bridging
  • security → voters, JWT, OIDC, CORS
  • serialization → groups, BackedEnum, Context, MaxDepth
  • pagination → partial, cursor, UUID v7
  • versioning → v1/v2, deprecation, Sunset
  • mcp → AI agent exposure
  • mutator → uniform routePrefix, group injection
  • errors → RFC 7807, ErrorResource
  • user → User entity, /me, password hashing
  • file-upload → MediaObject, multipart, S3
  • performance → cache tags, force_eager, FrankenPHP
  • upgrade → 3.x → 4.3 migration

Use Glob / Grep if unsure: check the names mentioned in the story against existing #[ApiResource] files.

Step 1 — Invoke api-platform-architect via Task

Pass:

  • The story description
  • The detected area(s)
  • Surface (internal / public)

Capture the plan markdown returned between ===API-PLAN-BEGIN=== / ===API-PLAN-END=== markers.

Step 2 — Invoke api-platform-aligned-reviewer via Task

Pass the plan from step 1. Capture the ## Aligned-Reviewer note (preserve verbatim) block.

Step 3 — Invoke api-platform-appsec via Task

Pass the revised plan. Capture the ## AppSec findings (preserve verbatim — COORDINATOR: include this block as-is) table.

Step 4 — Synthesize

Synthesize the three views into a single self-contained plan. Preserve verbatim the ## Aligned-Reviewer note (preserve verbatim) block and the ## AppSec findings (preserve verbatim) table — do NOT collapse them into citations.

The plan header MUST include:

**Story shape:** feature | refactor | migration | hardening | docs-only
**API Platform area:** <detected area>
**Surface:** internal | public
**Sections that don't apply:** <list or "none">

Read the full file on GitHub · 83 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. 2d ago First seen · 83 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A 816571278cf1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

architect is a command published in the GitHub repository gerard-labs/superpowers-api-platform (2 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 745 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 2026-08-31.