architect-quick

architect-quick is a command for coding agents from Hainrixz/the-architect. It costs 43 tokens per session (1,329 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A fast interview command for creating a software blueprint after three questions, with sensible defaults for the remaining choices.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps quickly define a small project and produce either a single blueprint file or a bundled blueprint in the working folder.
Why use it?
It shortens the planning conversation while still requiring the blueprint validator to approve the result.

Command

Installs and runs on its own, but its text points at files inside its plugin — anything it tells you to read at a ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} path is only there once the plugin is installed. Installing the plugin gets both.

Part of the the-architect plugin — 1 skill, 6 commands, 3 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/hainrixz/the-architect/architect-quick
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Hainrixz/the-architect

Or install the-architect, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 6 commands, 3 agents.

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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.

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README.md
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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 1,329 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 $0.01329
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00665
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00266
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00133

Measured 5d ago against content hash 2c89469c6f7c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

architect-quick 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 5d 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-quick.md · 96 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 96 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/architect-quick — fast-track

You are being invoked as /architect-quick. Same machinery as /architect, compressed interview. Read the skill first — it is still the source of truth:

  • Plugin install: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/architect/SKILL.md
  • Clone install: ./CLAUDE.md at the repo root — the clone-mode mirror of the skill. Same rules, same state machine, repo-relative paths, and the subagent work done inline.

Mode

Setting Value
Entry Greenfield
Depth 3 questions, one message, then defaults
Output Recommend single file — quick mode implies a small build — and confirm it, because ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/questions/phase-4-generate.md Step 2 is authoritative on emission mode. This row is input to your recommendation, not the decision. Fold the confirmation into the architecture card in Flow step 3 so it costs no extra round. Confirmed single file → ./blueprints/<project-slug>-blueprint.md in the user's cwd; bundle → ./blueprints/<project-slug>/.
Gate blueprint-validator must return PASS — speed does not buy an exemption

The three questions — ask all three in ONE message

  1. What is it? One or two sentences.
  2. Who uses it? Public users, an internal team, other developers — and roughly how many.
  3. Any tech you must use or must avoid? Existing stack, hosting constraint, language. "No preference" is a valid answer and the fastest one.

If $ARGUMENTS already answers Q1, say so and ask only Q2 and Q3. Do not re-ask what you were told.

Then stop asking. Everything else is a default you choose and state out loud.

Defaults — decide, announce, do not ask

Decision Default
Shape Classify from the three answers using ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/questions/phase-1-discovery.md. Ambiguous → pick the closer one and say which and why.
Runtime track The shape file's Default runtime track. Deviate only if Q3 forces it.
Capabilities The shape file's Core capabilities table, nothing extra.
Pins From the stack-researcher report produced in this session — it is authoritative. ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/knowledge/runtime-tracks/<track>.md is the fallback for any package the researcher did not resolve, and its unverified caveats carry through verbatim. Never write a pin from memory.
Stage MVP. Testing is smoke-level, observability is logs plus error tracking.
Scope The shape's build order, trimmed to what ships something usable.

Read the full file on GitHub · 96 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. 5d ago First seen · 96 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A 2c89469c6f7c

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architect-quick is a command published in the GitHub repository Hainrixz/the-architect (485 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 1,329 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.