architecture-scorecard

architecture-scorecard is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from alexei-led/architect. It costs 71 tokens per session (1,306 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A fixed rubric for evaluating software architecture across defined areas. It requires scores to match the available evidence and records confidence in each assessment.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when assigning or revising architecture scores, selecting score bands, or checking whether scores are supported by evidence.
Why use it?
It makes architecture assessments more consistent and easier to defend than informal opinions.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it when assigning or revising architecture scores, selecting score bands, or checking whether scores are supported by evidence.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/alexei-led/architect/architecture-scorecard
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 alexei-led/architect --skill architecture-scorecard
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alexei-led/architect

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 71 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,306 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 $0.00071 $0.01306
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00653
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00261
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00131

Measured 9d ago against content hash 5f983b3766b3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

architecture-scorecard 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 9d 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.

src/skills/architecture-scorecard/SKILL.md · 122 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 122 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Architecture scorecard

How to score, honestly and reproducibly. The rubric itself lives in ../../resources/templates/scorecard.yaml — read it; do not restate or invent values here.

When to use

Use whenever you are about to assign or revise a score on any architecture dimension. The architecture-review skill calls this before writing scores into a report.

Skill navigation

  • Missing evidence or system map: return to architecture-review; scores are not a substitute for evidence.
  • Current skill: use architecture-scorecard only to assign defensible values, bands, confidence, and score rationales.
  • Next skill: write the architecture-review report, then recommend one primary next step: architecture-design when findings need target-state decisions, architecture-plan only when an approved design already exists and sequencing is requested, or no next skill for pure audit/scoring.

Procedure

  1. Read the rubric. ../../resources/templates/scorecard.yaml is the source of truth for dimension names, 0..100 bands and their anchors, confidence levels, and the enforced rules. If you find yourself typing a dimension name or band edge from memory, stop and read the file — drift from the scorecard is a bug.

  2. Per dimension, gather the evidence first. A score with no evidence ref is invalid for every non-meta dimension. If you have no evidence, do not score — record a coverage gap and let analysis_confidence absorb it. Absence of findings counts as positive evidence only when a current tool actually covered that finding class.

  3. Pick the band, then the value. Choose the band whose anchor best fits the evidence first. Then choose a 0..100 value within that band; default to the band midpoint unless the evidence clearly supports an edge. The band must be the one whose range contains the value. Band and value disagreeing is a hard error.

  4. Set confidence independently of quality. Confidence reflects how trustworthy the assessment is — coverage, recency, directness of evidence — not how good the architecture is. Missing or failed tools lower it.

Read the full file on GitHub · 122 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. 9d ago First seen · 122 lines · 71 tokens per session scan A 5f983b3766b3

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architecture-scorecard is a skill published in the GitHub repository alexei-led/architect (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 71 tokens to every session and 1,306 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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