renaissance-architecture

renaissance-architecture is a skill for Claude Code from bencium/bencium-marketplace. It costs 62 tokens per session (2,808 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A software architecture and interface-design skill based on first-principles thinking: solving the underlying problem instead of copying existing solutions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when designing features, architecting software, brainstorming apps, reviewing designs, or discussing strategy.
Why use it?
It helps produce simpler, more original designs by challenging assumptions and focusing on what the product actually needs.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the renaissance-architecture plugin — 1 skill shipped together

not rated 422repo +5 12d ago A scan Socket: passSnyk: passSkillSpector: warn 62 tokens original MIT

Good fit Use it when designing features, architecting software, brainstorming apps, reviewing designs, or discussing strategy.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/bencium/bencium-marketplace/renaissance-architecture
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 bencium/bencium-marketplace --skill renaissance-architecture
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bencium/bencium-marketplace

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install renaissance-architecture, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

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Per session 62 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,808 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. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 18 Mar 2026
  • Snyk pass 8 Mar 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Excessive Agency · line 258
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00062 $0.02808
Opus 5 $0.00031 $0.01404
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00562
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00281

Measured 12d ago against content hash 474b4284e247, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

renaissance-architecture 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 12d 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.

renaissance-architecture/skills/renaissance-architecture/SKILL.md · 425 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 425 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Renaissance Architecture

Build genuinely new things. Not "X but for Y."


Core Philosophy

The problem isn't modern tools. It's building commentaries instead of creations.

Medieval scholars wrote commentaries on Aristotle instead of new philosophy. We build Star Wars spin-offs instead of new sci-fi. We add AI to existing workflows instead of asking what workflows become possible.

Renaissance architecture means:

  • First-principles thinking about WHAT to build
  • Pragmatic choices about HOW to build it
  • Creating new paradigms, not extending old ones
  • Using modern tools to make genuinely new things possible

Architecture Principles

1. Simplicity as Default, Complexity When Earned

Start simple, add complexity when pain is measurable.

Start With Move To When
SQLite Postgres >10 concurrent writers, >100GB, need PostGIS/full-text
Single file Multiple files File exceeds ~500 LOC or has multiple responsibilities
Monolith Services Team can't work on same codebase, or genuine scale isolation needed
Static hosting Server Need auth, real-time, or server-side computation
Local state Cloud sync Multi-device is a real user need, not assumed

Not dogma, but defaults. Violate with documented reasoning.


2. Framework Choices

Use frameworks when they provide genuine leverage.

Framework When to Use When to Avoid
Next.js Full-stack React apps, SSR matters, team knows it Simple static sites, non-React teams
Remix Data-heavy apps, progressive enhancement priority Simple SPAs, unfamiliar teams
Astro Content sites, partial hydration valuable Highly interactive apps
SvelteKit Smaller bundles critical, team willing to learn Large existing React codebases
Rails/Django Rapid CRUD apps, admin panels, proven patterns Real-time heavy, team prefers JS
FastAPI Python APIs, async matters Simple scripts, team prefers other languages
Hono/Elysia Edge functions, lightweight APIs Complex apps needing full framework

Read the full file on GitHub · 425 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. 12d ago First seen · 425 lines · 62 tokens per session scan A 474b4284e247

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renaissance-architecture is a skill published in the GitHub repository bencium/bencium-marketplace (422 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 62 tokens to every session and 2,808 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 2026-08-30.

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