architecture

architecture is a skill for Claude Code from 0xrafasec/ai-workflow. It costs 75 tokens per session (923 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided workflow for creating or updating an architecture document that explains a software system's parts, data flow, and trust boundaries. Trust boundaries are places where data or control moves between components with different levels of permission.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to map services and components, describe how they communicate, document data movement, and define where security responsibilities change.
Why use it?
It turns scattered knowledge about how a system is built into a document that developers can use when changing or extending it.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: $ARGUMENTS substitution. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; names the AskUserQuestion tool.

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 skills/0xrafasec/ai-workflow/architecture
Any agent
npx skills add 0xrafasec/ai-workflow --skill architecture
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/0xrafasec/ai-workflow

Made for: Claude Code.

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A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 75 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 923 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 5.1 $0.00075 $0.00923
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.00462
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00185
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00092

Measured 6d ago against content hash 284b4e341b11, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 6d 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.

skills/architecture/SKILL.md · 98 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 98 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Create the system architecture document. Argument: $ARGUMENTS

Context Gathering

Before interviewing, read what already exists:

  1. Check for existing docs:

    • Read docs/PRD.md or docs/prd/ if they exist
    • Read docs/ARCHITECTURE.md — if revising, don't start from scratch
    • Read README.md, CLAUDE.md
    • Read any whitepaper, design doc, or existing architecture doc
  2. If no docs exist (inherited project):

    • Read README.md for project overview
    • Explore the directory structure to understand the codebase layout
    • Read key entry points (main files, route definitions, config files)
    • Check git log --oneline -20 for recent direction
    • Read package.json, Cargo.toml, pyproject.toml, or equivalent for dependencies and project metadata
    • Summarize what you learned to the user before starting the interview — "Here's what I understand about this project so far: ..."

Interview

Use AskUserQuestion to dig into the system design. Adapt questions based on what you already learned from the codebase.

  1. Components — What are the main components/services/modules? How do they communicate? What are the trust boundaries?
  2. Data flow — How does data enter the system, get processed, and get stored? What are the critical paths?
  3. Technology choices — What stack and why? What are the hard constraints vs preferences?
  4. Deployment — How does this run? Single binary, microservices, serverless? Where (cloud, on-prem, edge)?
  5. Scaling and performance — What are the expected loads? Where are the bottlenecks? What needs to be fast?
  6. Integration points — What external systems does this talk to? What APIs does it expose? What does it depend on?
  7. Key decisions — What architectural decisions have already been made? What tradeoffs were accepted and why?

For inherited projects, focus more on: "Is my understanding correct?" and "What would you change?" rather than "What do you want?"

Write

Write to docs/ARCHITECTURE.md:

Read the full file on GitHub · 98 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. 6d ago First seen · 98 lines · 75 tokens per session scan A 284b4e341b11

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architecture is a skill published in the GitHub repository 0xrafasec/ai-workflow (9 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 75 tokens to every session and 923 once invoked, about $0.0004 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.

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