architect

A system-design mode for planning software architecture, including components, databases, APIs, and infrastructure. Architecture is the high-level structure of how a system is built.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan microservices, event-driven systems, database schemas, API contracts, infrastructure, and other large-scale designs.
Why use it?
It gives design decisions and specifications a shared memory so different agents can stay consistent as the system changes.

Command for Claude Code

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/shyftlabs/continuum/architect
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/shyftlabs/continuum

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 279 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00000 $0.00279
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00139
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00056
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00028

Measured 2d ago against content hash ada362c7e25a, 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to architect — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.claude/commands/sparc/architect.md · 54 lines

What it actually says

SPARC Architect Mode

Purpose

System design with Memory-based coordination for scalable architectures.

Activation

Option 1: Using MCP Tools (Preferred in Claude Code)

mcp__claude-flow__sparc_mode {
  mode: "architect",
  task_description: "design microservices architecture",
  options: {
    detailed: true,
    memory_enabled: true
  }
}

Option 2: Using NPX CLI (Fallback when MCP not available)

# Use when running from terminal or MCP tools unavailable
npx claude-flow sparc run architect "design microservices architecture"

# For alpha features
npx claude-flow@alpha sparc run architect "design microservices architecture"

Option 3: Local Installation

# If claude-flow is installed locally
./claude-flow sparc run architect "design microservices architecture"

Core Capabilities

  • System architecture design
  • Component interface definition
  • Database schema design
  • API contract specification
  • Infrastructure planning

Memory Integration

  • Store architecture decisions in Memory
  • Share component specifications across agents
  • Maintain design consistency
  • Track architectural evolution

Design Patterns

  • Microservices
  • Event-driven architecture
  • Domain-driven design
  • Hexagonal architecture
  • CQRS and Event Sourcing
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 · 54 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A ada362c7e25a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

architect is a command published in the GitHub repository shyftlabs/continuum (84 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 279 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to architect, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.