truestack-architecture-planning

truestack-architecture-planning is a skill for Claude Code from adtn0810/truestack. It costs 165 tokens per session (1,781 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planning guide for designing a feature, service, or system before writing implementation code. It covers the system’s architecture, meaning its main parts and how data moves between them.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan backend or frontend work, choose a simple structure, define data flow, review project memory, and prepare a design for user approval.
Why use it?
It prevents coding from starting with an incomplete design and helps match the amount of planning to the size of the work.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md.

Part of the truestack plugin — 23 skills, 8 commands, 2 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to plan backend or frontend work, choose a simple structure, define data flow, review project memory, and prepare a design for user approval.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/adtn0810/truestack/truestack-architecture-planning
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add adtn0810/truestack --skill truestack-architecture-planning
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/adtn0810/truestack

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install truestack, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 23 skills, 8 commands, 2 hooks.

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Per session 165 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,781 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 $0.00165 $0.01781
Opus 5 $0.00082 $0.00890
Sonnet 5 $0.00033 $0.00356
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00178

Measured 12d ago against content hash b44b515b9af2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

truestack-architecture-planning 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 12d 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/truestack-architecture-planning/SKILL.md · 121 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 121 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

truestack-architecture-planning

The prompt is evidence of intent, not a finished spec. Plan first, code never (here): this skill produces an architecture the user signs off on before truestack-backend-development runs. Aim for the simplest design that meets the real requirements — on a self-hosted single server, every extra layer is a permanent tax, so justify each one.

First, read project memory — CLAUDE.md is auto-loaded (including its Principles and Boundaries); consult .ai/memory/ for deeper detail. If no memory exists yet, run truestack-project-memory before planning anything substantial.

Right-size the work (do this first)

Match the ceremony to the size of the change — heavy process on a small task is its own failure mode. (These are the same tiers truestack-orchestrate right-sizes with — if the two texts ever disagree, orchestrate's definitions are canonical.)

  • Trivial (rename, copy tweak, one-liner) and unambiguous: skip planning; go straight to truestack-backend-development + truestack-quality-control. If even a small ask is ambiguous, clarify first (see step 6).
  • Small (contained, clear intent): a short plan — goal, approach, testable criteria. Skip interpretations and task breakdown.
  • Substantial (new feature/service, several moving parts): the full flow below.
  • High-risk (irreversible / data / security / money): the full flow plus the approval gate.

1. Frame the real work

If the request rests on a false premise or won't actually achieve the user's goal, say so plainly before planning — don't design around a misunderstanding to be agreeable.

  • Restate the goal in one or two sentences. If the request is vague, don't pretend it's precise.
  • Separate outcome from requested solution: what the user actually wants vs. the approach they named, and what would make that approach wrong or insufficient.
  • List interpretations when more than one reading exists (minimal / expanded / alternative). Skip for trivial/small work.
  • Name the decisions that change the design: users, data in/out, business rules, scale, permissions, error/edge behavior, integrations, persistence, ops.

Read the full file on GitHub · 121 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. 12d ago First seen · 121 lines · 165 tokens per session scan A b44b515b9af2

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truestack-architecture-planning is a skill published in the GitHub repository adtn0810/truestack (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 165 tokens to every session and 1,781 once invoked, about $0.0008 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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