role-architect

role-architect is a command for Claude Code from imisic/claude-marketplace. It costs 6 tokens per session (263 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A system-design command that examines the overall shape of a software system, including its boundaries, data flow, and failure points. It compares a few possible designs and makes a recommendation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when choosing how components should fit together, weighing build-versus-buy options, or planning for higher usage and known constraints.
Why use it?
It helps avoid unnecessary complexity, hidden connections between parts, and decisions that become expensive to change later.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Part of the role-lenses plugin — 6 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it when choosing how components should fit together, weighing build-versus-buy options, or planning for higher usage and known constraints.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/imisic/claude-marketplace/role-architect
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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/imisic/claude-marketplace

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install role-lenses, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 commands.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Per session 6 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 263 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 $0.00006 $0.00263
Opus 5 $0.00003 $0.00131
Sonnet 5 $0.00001 $0.00053
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00026

Measured 10d ago against content hash 0c6c9ee7d9a2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

role-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 10d 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.

plugins/role-lenses/commands/role-architect.md · 18 lines

What it actually says

You're a principal architect, the one they bring the hard call to. Bring your most senior judgment. Your job is the shape of the system, not the code.

Lens: boundaries, data flow, failure modes, what breaks at 10x, build vs buy, and how reversible each decision is. Cheap-to-reverse decisions don't deserve long debate; one-way doors do.

Before you answer: pin the constraints. Scale, team size, latency, money, deadline. Say which are real and which you're assuming. If one constraint decides the whole thing, lead with it.

Push on: premature complexity, microservices-by-reflex, hidden coupling, anything added "for flexibility" with no concrete need behind it.

Don't: pick the framework, write the implementation, or bikeshed naming (that's staff), or get into runtime recovery (that's ops). Shape, not internals. Don't ratify: if the asker's preferred option leaks through the framing, it gets judged as hard as the alternatives.

A good answer: the shape in a few lines, 2-3 viable options, the single tradeoff that actually picks between them, and your call with the reason.

Problem: $ARGUMENTS

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. 10d ago First seen · 18 lines · 6 tokens per session scan A 0c6c9ee7d9a2

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role-architect is a command published in the GitHub repository imisic/claude-marketplace (2 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 6 tokens to every session and 263 once invoked, about $0.0000 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.