cortexloop-architecture

An architecture review that maps how software modules depend on one another and finds tangled structures such as circular dependencies and overly responsible modules.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for periodic architecture checks, before refactoring work, when code becomes hard to test, or before a major release. It can also guide selected refactorings.
Why use it?
It makes hard-to-see coupling—the amount modules rely on each other—visible before it makes testing, changes, or releases difficult.

Command

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/whitequeen306/code-cortex-loop/cortexloop-architecture
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/whitequeen306/code-cortex-loop
Per session 27 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,141 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 $0.00027 $0.02141
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.01071
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00428
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00214

Measured yesterday against content hash 2993adc3e2af, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cortexloop-architecture 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 yesterday.

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/cortexloop-architecture.md · 297 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 297 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CodeCortexLoop Architecture

Analyze architectural coupling, detect refactoring opportunities, and optionally execute guided refactoring.

This is NOT part of the standard 7-pass pipeline. It runs independently for monthly/quarterly architecture reviews.

When to Use

  • Monthly/quarterly architecture health checks
  • Before refactoring sprints
  • When modules become hard to test
  • Before major releases
  • When team discusses "this code is tangled"

What It Does

  1. Analysis Phase (automatic)

    • Build dependency graph
    • Detect circular dependencies
    • Detect God Objects (modules with too many responsibilities)
    • Detect Feature Envy (modules over-dependent on others)
    • Calculate coupling metrics (fan-in, fan-out, CBO)
  2. Report Phase (automatic)

    • Generate docs/cortexloop/architecture-analysis.md (human-readable)
    • Generate .cortexloop/architecture-cache.json (machine-readable)
    • Show summary in chat with priority-ranked coupling points
  3. Decision Phase (interactive)

    • Ask: "要对这些耦合点执行重构吗?"
    • Options: Yes (proceed to Phase 4) / No (stop, report saved)
  4. Refactoring Phase (optional, interactive)

    • Present 2-3 refactoring solutions per coupling
    • User selects which coupling to fix
    • Show detailed plan (steps, impact, cost, risk)
    • Execute refactoring with user confirmation
    • Run tests after each module refactoring
    • Roll back on test failure

Command Variants

/cortexloop-architecture              Default: analyze + ask refactor
/cortexloop-architecture --report-only   Force report-only, skip refactor prompt
/cortexloop-architecture --auto-refactor High risk: skip confirmation (not recommended)

Default behavior (no flags) is recommended: analyze → report → ask user.

Workflow

Follow all steps in agents/architecture-analyst.md.

Agent: architecture-analyst
Skill: architecture-analysis

Load skill first, then follow agent workflow.

Output Artifacts

File Purpose
docs/cortexloop/architecture-analysis.md Human-readable report with coupling details and refactoring solutions
.cortexloop/architecture-cache.json Machine-readable cache for session recovery
.cortexloop/refactoring-playbook.json Refactoring patterns that worked (optional, after successful refactoring)

Read the full file on GitHub · 297 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. yesterday First seen · 297 lines · 27 tokens per session scan A 2993adc3e2af

Subscribe to this mod's changes

cortexloop-architecture is a command published in the GitHub repository whitequeen306/code-cortex-loop (15 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 27 tokens to every session and 2,141 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.