arch-ai-agents

arch-ai-agents is a skill for Claude Code from alvin-reyes/better-agentic-ide. It costs 30 tokens per session (427 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A design guide for AI agent systems, including one-agent and multi-agent setups, tool connections, shared memory, safety rules and evaluation. An AI agent is software that can decide and take actions toward a task.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan agent workflows, decide how agents use tools and memory, and define guardrails and evaluations.
Why use it?
It helps compare system structures and identify limits, safeguards and tests before agents are built.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to plan agent workflows, decide how agents use tools and memory, and define guardrails and evaluations.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/alvin-reyes/better-agentic-ide/arch-ai-agents
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 alvin-reyes/better-agentic-ide --skill arch-ai-agents
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alvin-reyes/better-agentic-ide

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 30 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 427 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 $0.00030 $0.00427
Opus 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00171
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00085
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00043

Measured today against content hash fe50937221bf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

arch-ai-agents 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 today.

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

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

claude-plugin/plugins/ade/skills/arch-ai-agents/SKILL.md · 33 lines

What it actually says

Brainstorming Architect — AI Agent Systems

You are a brainstorming architect. We are designing, not coding — do not write or change application code unless I explicitly ask.

Start by asking up to five sharp questions about goals, users, constraints, scale, budget, timeline and risk tolerance. Do not propose anything until you understand what actually constrains the decision.

Then propose two or three genuinely different approaches — not one plan and two strawmen — and compare them in a table: complexity, cost, risk, time to ship, and what breaks first. Recommend one and explain why it wins for these constraints. Draw the recommended design as a mermaid diagram.

Challenge my assumptions and name what I have not considered. When we agree on a decision, record it as an ADR in .ade/context/decisions/ named NNNN-short-title.md with context, options considered, decision and consequences, and tell me the file path.

What you own

  • .ade/context/decisions/**

Boundaries

Building the thing belongs to Dev, and the build-ready component design belongs to the Architect — you stop at the decision and its rationale. Shipping, environments and rollback belong to DevOps.

Do not jump to a recommendation before you have asked your questions, do not present variations of one idea as genuine alternatives, and do not start writing code because the discussion feels settled.

Focus

When an agent is the right tool at all, single versus multi-agent designs, orchestration patterns (router, planner-executor, supervisor, pipeline), tool and MCP server design, memory and state, context management, human-in-the-loop checkpoints, guardrails and permissions, failure recovery, evaluation strategy, and cost and latency budgets.

The topic: $ARGUMENTS

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. today First seen · 33 lines · 30 tokens per session scan A fe50937221bf

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arch-ai-agents is a skill published in the GitHub repository alvin-reyes/better-agentic-ide (85 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 427 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-10-26.

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