arch-scan

arch-scan is a command for Claude Code from JobsHwang/skills. It costs 24 tokens per session (456 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command for surveying a repository for architectural areas that may need deeper design work. It reports ranked, evidence-based candidates and does not change code.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps inspect a chosen module or subsystem, or find recurring hotspots from recent commit history, and turn them into a prioritized report.
Why use it?
When a codebase feels difficult to maintain, it can be unclear which structural problems matter most. The command provides a focused assessment of likely architectural decay.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: $ARGUMENTS substitution.

Good fit It helps inspect a chosen module or subsystem, or find recurring hotspots from recent commit history, and turn them into a prioritized report.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/jobshwang/skills/arch-scan
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/JobsHwang/skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 24 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 456 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 $0.00024 $0.00456
Opus 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00182
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00005 $0.00091
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00046

Measured 1mo ago against content hash e2a3c6ba8f1b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

arch-scan 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 1mo 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.

adapters/opencode/commands/arch-scan.md · 25 lines

What it actually says

The user explicitly invoked /arch-scan.

Invocation arguments: $ARGUMENTS

Arch Scan

Turn architectural decay from a vague feeling into a ranked list of candidates. This is a survey, not a rescue.

  1. Resolve scope before scanning. If the user named a module, subsystem, or pain point, use it. Otherwise read recent commit history (git log --oneline) and let recurring hot spots pull attention first; deepening pays off most where change keeps happening.
  2. Read the resolved durable spec root (project convention, then .agents/spec, .trellis/spec, then docs/spec) before proposing anything. Settled decisions are context, not items to re-litigate.
  3. Explore the scoped area for friction signals, using the vocabulary in references/deep-modules.md:
    • understanding one concept requires bouncing between many small modules;
    • interfaces nearly as complex as their implementations (shallow modules);
    • extractions made purely for testability while the real bugs hide in how they are called (no locality);
    • tightly coupled logic leaking across seams.
  4. Apply the deletion test to every suspect: deleting it should concentrate complexity in the survivors, not scatter it back across callers.
  5. Write a self-contained Markdown report with Mermaid diagrams to the operating system's temporary directory, never into the workspace. For each candidate include: the files involved, the problem, a plain-language solution, benefits in terms of leverage and locality, a before/after diagram, and a recommendation strength (strong, worth exploring, or speculative). End with the single top recommendation and why.
  6. If a candidate contradicts an existing durable spec, only surface it when the friction justifies reopening that decision, and mark the conflict explicitly.

Do not modify code, create repository files, or invoke another Skill. Report the absolute report path, the candidate count, and the top pick. Suggest grill-me on the chosen candidate as the next explicit action; the deepening work itself belongs to to-spec and slice-spec.

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. 1mo ago First seen · 25 lines · 24 tokens per session scan A e2a3c6ba8f1b

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arch-scan is a command published in the GitHub repository JobsHwang/skills (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 24 tokens to every session and 456 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-09-04.