architecture-review

architecture-review is a skill for Claude Code from avmnu-sng/sutra. It costs 44 tokens per session (2,050 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A method for reviewing the architecture of a backend or service, meaning the parts that receive requests, process them, store data, and respond. It examines how those parts interact as usage grows.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess scalability, capacity, resource sizing, cost, reliability, or the effects of two-, five-, and ten-times more load.
Why use it?
It reveals shared limits, cascading failures, and resource or cost problems that may not appear when each component is examined alone.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the sutra plugin — 19 skills, 4 agents, 2 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to assess scalability, capacity, resource sizing, cost, reliability, or the effects of two-, five-, and ten-times more load.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/avmnu-sng/sutra/architecture-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 avmnu-sng/sutra --skill architecture-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/avmnu-sng/sutra

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install sutra, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 19 skills, 4 agents, 2 hooks.

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Per session 44 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,050 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 $0.00044 $0.02050
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.01025
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00410
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00205

Measured 11d ago against content hash 09f4d49c0e4d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

architecture-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 11d 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/sutra/skills/architecture-review/SKILL.md · 132 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 132 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Architecture review

Review a backend or service architecture with this 7-point methodology, applied in order. Do not skip ahead: each step feeds the next. The goal is not a component inventory -- it is a judgment about how the system behaves under load, where it breaks, and what is worth changing.

Scope: This methodology assumes a horizontally-scaled network service. For a monolith, embedded, or desktop system, apply the request-trace and component-interaction analysis and skip the autoscaling-specific steps (pod budgets, HPA metrics, scale-to-zero).

Core principle: system behavior emerges from component interactions, not from individual component properties. A per-component analysis that misses shared limits, cascades, and contention is wrong by construction. Two components that each look healthy in isolation can deadlock, starve a shared pool, or amplify each other's retries. Analyze the seams, not just the boxes.

When to use / When not to

  • Use when asked to assess scalability, capacity, resource sizing, cost, or reliability of a service or set of services; before a scaling event; when latency or cost is climbing without an obvious cause; when choosing a deployment model.
  • Do not use for line-level code review, security review, or feature design. This is a systems-behavior review, not a correctness or style pass.

1. Trace every request end to end

Pick one request type and follow it through every layer. Produce a trace, not a summary.

For each distinct request type, walk:

  • Entry point (which handler, which route, what triggers it).
  • Every downstream call (services, databases, caches, queues, external APIs).
  • Every I/O operation (disk read/write, network round trip, serialization).
  • Every decision branch (and which branch is the common case vs the tail).
  • Every lock, mutex, semaphore, or shared pool it touches, and for how long it holds them.
  • Every retry, timeout, and backoff, with the actual values.
  • Every error path -- what is caught, what is retried, what propagates, what is silently swallowed.
  • The final side effect (the write, the message published, the response returned).

Read the full file on GitHub · 132 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 · 132 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A 09f4d49c0e4d

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architecture-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository avmnu-sng/sutra (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 2,050 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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