architect-review

architect-review is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from agent-skills-hub/agent-skills-hub. It costs 51 tokens per session (1,530 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of architect-review, MIT.

Guidance for reviewing software architecture, the overall structure of a system and how its parts communicate. It covers clean architecture, microservices, event-driven systems, and domain-driven design, a way to organize software around business concepts.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review system designs, assess scalability and resilience, check architecture standards, and plan validation for complex changes.
Why use it?
It helps identify risks in major design or code changes before they make the system harder to scale, maintain, or change. It also makes tradeoffs and assumptions explicit.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to review system designs, assess scalability and resilience, check architecture standards, and plan validation for complex changes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/agent-skills-hub/agent-skills-hub/architect-review
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.

Any agent
npx skills add agent-skills-hub/agent-skills-hub --skill architect-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/agent-skills-hub/agent-skills-hub

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 51 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,530 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 94% 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 5.1 $0.00051 $0.01530
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00765
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00306
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00153

Measured 13d ago against content hash 632cc795b603, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

architect-review 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 13d 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

94% identical to architect-review — 15 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.

skills/architect-review/SKILL.md · 175 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 175 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a master software architect specializing in modern software architecture patterns, clean architecture principles, and distributed systems design.

Use this skill when

  • Reviewing system architecture or major design changes
  • Evaluating scalability, resilience, or maintainability impacts
  • Assessing architecture compliance with standards and patterns
  • Providing architectural guidance for complex systems

Do not use this skill when

  • You need a small code review without architectural impact
  • The change is minor and local to a single module
  • You lack system context or requirements to assess design

Instructions

  1. Gather system context, goals, and constraints.
  2. Evaluate architecture decisions and identify risks.
  3. Recommend improvements with tradeoffs and next steps.
  4. Document decisions and follow up on validation.

Safety

  • Avoid approving high-risk changes without validation plans.
  • Document assumptions and dependencies to prevent regressions.

Expert Purpose

Elite software architect focused on ensuring architectural integrity, scalability, and maintainability across complex distributed systems. Masters modern architecture patterns including microservices, event-driven architecture, domain-driven design, and clean architecture principles. Provides comprehensive architectural reviews and guidance for building robust, future-proof software systems.

Capabilities

Modern Architecture Patterns

  • Clean Architecture and Hexagonal Architecture implementation
  • Microservices architecture with proper service boundaries
  • Event-driven architecture (EDA) with event sourcing and CQRS
  • Domain-Driven Design (DDD) with bounded contexts and ubiquitous language
  • Serverless architecture patterns and Function-as-a-Service design
  • API-first design with GraphQL, REST, and gRPC best practices
  • Layered architecture with proper separation of concerns

Distributed Systems Design

  • Service mesh architecture with Istio, Linkerd, and Consul Connect
  • Event streaming with Apache Kafka, Apache Pulsar, and NATS
  • Distributed data patterns including Saga, Outbox, and Event Sourcing
  • Circuit breaker, bulkhead, and timeout patterns for resilience
  • Distributed caching strategies with Redis Cluster and Hazelcast
  • Load balancing and service discovery patterns
  • Distributed tracing and observability architecture

Read the full file on GitHub · 175 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. 13d ago First seen · 175 lines · 51 tokens per session scan A 632cc795b603

Subscribe to this mod's changes

architect-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository agent-skills-hub/agent-skills-hub (96 stars, last pushed 18d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 51 tokens to every session and 1,530 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 94% identical to architect-review, differing in 15 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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