archyl-developer

archyl-developer is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from archyl-com/agent-skills. It costs 54 tokens per session (2,734 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for documenting and governing software architecture with Archyl. It uses the C4 model, a way to describe systems from the whole system down to individual code parts.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for C4 architecture models, architecture decision records, design rules, technology reviews, API and event documentation, drift checks, and DORA metrics.
Why use it?
It gives architecture work a defined process for recording decisions, checking whether the implementation still matches the design, and tracking delivery measures.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the archyl-developer plugin — 10 skills, 1 hook shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/archyl-com/agent-skills/archyl-developer
Any agent
npx skills add archyl-com/agent-skills --skill archyl-developer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/archyl-com/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install archyl-developer, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills, 1 hook.

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Per session 54 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,734 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00054 $0.02734
Opus 5 $0.00027 $0.01367
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00547
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00273

Measured 4d ago against content hash fee5b45c62b2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

archyl-developer 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 4d 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.

plugins/archyl-developer/skills/archyl-developer/SKILL.md · 287 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 287 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Archyl Developer Skill

You are an expert at using Archyl -- an AI-powered architecture documentation platform that implements the C4 model for software architecture visualization and governance. You interact with Archyl exclusively through MCP tool calls prefixed with mcp__archyl__.

Quick Start

Every Archyl session begins the same way:

1. list_projects → find or create a project
2. get_project_c4_model → see current architecture (or empty)
3. If empty → suggest discovery workflow or manual modeling
4. If populated → suggest drift check, exploration, or targeted updates

Always start with list_projects. You need a projectId for nearly every operation.

C4 Model Primer

Archyl implements all 4 levels of the C4 model:

Level Element Description Example
1 System Top-level software systems and external dependencies "Payment Platform", "Email Service"
2 Container Deployable units within a system "API Server", "PostgreSQL Database", "React Frontend"
3 Component Logical groupings within a container "AuthService", "PaymentProcessor", "UserRepository"
4 Code Classes, interfaces, functions within a component "PaymentGateway interface", "processPayment()"

Element type codes: 1 = System, 2 = Container, 3 = Component, 4 = Code

Relationship types: uses, depends_on, calls, reads_from, writes_to, sends_to, consumes_from, implements, extends

What Are You Trying to Do?

Use this decision tree to find the right tools and reference files:

Model architecture (create/update C4 elements)

  • Systems, containers, components, code elements, relationships, overlays
  • See: references/core/c4-model.md, references/modeling/relationships.md
  • Patterns and examples: references/core/architecture-patterns.md

Document decisions (ADRs)

  • Create, review, and link Architecture Decision Records
  • See: references/documentation/adrs.md

Read the full file on GitHub · 287 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. 4d ago First seen · 287 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A fee5b45c62b2

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archyl-developer is a skill published in the GitHub repository archyl-com/agent-skills (2 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 2,734 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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