architect-quick

architect-quick is a command for Claude Code from Hainrixz/the-architect. It costs 43 tokens per session (1,309 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 for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions subagents.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the the-architect plugin — 1 skill, 6 commands, 3 agents shipped together

Good fit It helps quickly define a small project and produce either a single blueprint file or a bundled blueprint in the working folder.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add Hainrixz/the-architect
Claude Code
/plugin install the-architect

Made for: Claude Code.

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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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 1,309 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 $0.00043 $0.01309
Opus 5.5 $0.00017 $0.00524
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00262
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00131

Measured 5d ago against content hash 0c9536449511, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 · 95 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 95 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 Derived and announced at ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/questions/phase-4-generate.md Step 2, which is authoritative on emission mode (12 or more steps = bundle); an explicit user preference wins. Quick builds usually land under the threshold, but the step count decides, not this row. 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, say why, and name the rejected alternative.
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 · 95 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 Changed · -1 lines 0c9536449511
  2. 1mo 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 (561 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 1,309 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.