architecture-methodology

architecture-methodology is a skill for Claude Code from AhmedHabiba/architor. It costs 118 tokens per session (1,315 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided method for designing software architecture through four phases: requirements, overall structure, individual components, and final review. It controls which decisions can be made at each phase.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to analyse a product requirements document, choose an architecture pattern, map components, decide shared concerns such as security and monitoring, and produce a final design.
Why use it?
It prevents technology and component choices from being made before the requirements and overall design are understood. It also requires earlier decisions to be accepted before later work proceeds.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

Good fit Use it to analyse a product requirements document, choose an architecture pattern, map components, decide shared concerns such as security and monitoring, and produce a final design.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ahmedhabiba/architor/architecture-methodology
Install

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Any agent
npx skills add AhmedHabiba/architor --skill architecture-methodology
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AhmedHabiba/architor

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 118 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,315 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.
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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00118 $0.01315
Opus 5 $0.00059 $0.00658
Sonnet 5 $0.00024 $0.00263
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00131

Measured 11d ago against content hash d946c79c44fb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

architecture-methodology 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 11d ago.

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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.

.claude/skills/architecture-methodology/SKILL.md · 114 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 114 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Architecture Methodology Orchestrator

When This Skill Activates

Any conversation about system architecture, technology choices, component design, PRD analysis, or solution design.

Phase Definitions

Phase Name Purpose
1 Evaluation Analyse PRDs, extract functional and non-functional requirements, identify constraints and risks. No technology or component decisions yet.
2A Pattern Select the architecture pattern (e.g. event-driven, microservices, monolith) and justify the choice.
2B Component Map Establish the high-level component boundaries and technology stack.
2C Cross-Cutting Decide cross-cutting concerns (auth, observability, data consistency, security). These become constraints for all Phase 3 component designs.
3 Components Design individual components sequentially. Each component must be explicitly accepted before the next begins.
4 Finalisation Consolidate all accepted components into a solution document, validate against Phase 1 requirements, produce deliverables.

State File: .arch/state.json

ALWAYS read this file before every architecture-related response. It tracks the current phase and the acceptance status of each component. NEVER rely on conversation memory for phase state.

Example structure:

{
  "current_phase": "methodology",
  "phases": {
    "evaluation": { "status": "accepted" },
    "methodology": {
      "status": "in_progress",
      "sub_phase": "cross_cutting",
      "pattern_accepted": true,
      "components_overview_accepted": true,
      "cross_cutting_accepted": false
    }
  },
  "components": {
    "api-gateway": { "status": "accepted" },
    "auth-service": { "status": "in_progress" },
    "data-layer": { "status": "pending" }
  },
  "decision_count": 7,
  "reopens": { "count": 0, "max": 2 }
}

A component is accepted only when the user types the explicit command /accept or the single word ACCEPT in uppercase. Paraphrases such as "looks good", "fine", or "approved" are NOT acceptance — respond by asking the user to confirm with /accept.

Read the full file on GitHub · 114 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. 11d ago First seen · 114 lines · 118 tokens per session scan A d946c79c44fb

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architecture-methodology is a skill published in the GitHub repository AhmedHabiba/architor (6 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 118 tokens to every session and 1,315 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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