architect

A workflow for researching a feature request and writing a technical blueprint for how to build it.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan new features, record implementation decisions, and save plans, reviews, and audit logs in a project directory.
Why use it?
It turns an idea into a documented plan and can include a review that looks for risks before implementation.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/backspace-shmackspace/claude-devkit/architect
Any agent
npx skills add backspace-shmackspace/claude-devkit --skill architect
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/backspace-shmackspace/claude-devkit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 13 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 7,949 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 $0.00013 $0.07949
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.03974
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.01590
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00795

Measured 2d ago against content hash fc3aa8f8905c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

architect 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 2d 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.

skills/architect/SKILL.md · 684 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 684 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/architect Workflow

Inputs

  • Feature request: $ARGUMENTS
  • Flags: --fast skips the red team review (use for low-risk changes)

Output Rules

  • Always print full absolute paths for all artifact references (plan files, review files, audit logs). This makes paths clickable in terminals like Warp. Use the resolved $PLANS_DIR value, never relative paths like ./plans/.

Step 0 — Pre-flight (optional)

Resolve devkit paths (MUST be first action in Step 0):

Tool: Bash

# --- Devkit Path Resolution ---
DEVKIT_SCRIPTS="${CLAUDE_DEVKIT:-$HOME/.claude-devkit}/scripts"

# Source path resolution helper
if [ -f "$DEVKIT_SCRIPTS/resolve-project-dir.sh" ]; then
  . "$DEVKIT_SCRIPTS/resolve-project-dir.sh"
  DEVKIT_PROJECT_DIR_RESOLVED=$(resolve_devkit_project_dir) || {
    echo "Failed to resolve project directory" >&2; exit 1
  }
elif [ -n "${DEVKIT_PROJECT_DIR:-}" ]; then
  DEVKIT_PROJECT_DIR_RESOLVED="$DEVKIT_PROJECT_DIR"
else
  echo "WARNING: devkit is not installed. Using deprecated .devkit/ fallback." >&2
  DEVKIT_PROJECT_DIR_RESOLVED=".devkit"
fi

PLANS_DIR="$DEVKIT_PROJECT_DIR_RESOLVED/plans"
mkdir -p "$PLANS_DIR"
echo "Plans directory: $PLANS_DIR"

Check for project-specific agents (parallel):

Tool: Glob (direct — coordinator does this)

Run all three globs in parallel:

  • Pattern 1: .claude/agents/senior-architect.md
  • Pattern 2: .claude/agents/code-reviewer.md
  • Pattern 3: .claude/agents/security-analyst.md

If senior-architect found:

  • Output: "✅ Using project-specific senior-architect from .claude/agents/"

If senior-architect not found:

  • Output note: "💡 No project-specific senior-architect found. Will use generic Task subagent for planning.\n For project-tailored planning, generate one:\n gen-agent . --type senior-architect"
  • Continue to Step 1 (do not block).

If code-reviewer found:

  • Output: "✅ Using project-specific code-reviewer from .claude/agents/"

If code-reviewer not found:

  • Output note: "💡 No project-specific code-reviewer found. Will use generic Task subagent for feasibility checks.\n For project-tailored reviews, generate one:\n gen-agent . --type code-reviewer"

Read the full file on GitHub · 684 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. 2d ago First seen · 684 lines · 13 tokens per session scan A fc3aa8f8905c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

architect is a skill published in the GitHub repository backspace-shmackspace/claude-devkit (15 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 13 tokens to every session and 7,949 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-30.

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