architectural-planning

architectural-planning is a skill for Claude Code from bhaumikmaan/claude-code-master-skills. It costs 49 tokens per session (1,189 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A read-only guide for exploring a software codebase and turning a requested change into a step-by-step implementation plan. It identifies important files and compares possible approaches.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan features, design software structure, compare implementation options, and list the files likely to need changes.
Why use it?
It helps before coding when the system is unfamiliar or the design has trade-offs. Because it cannot change files, the plan can be reviewed before implementation begins.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions subagents.

Good fit Use it to plan features, design software structure, compare implementation options, and list the files likely to need changes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/bhaumikmaan/claude-code-master-skills/architectural-planning
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 bhaumikmaan/claude-code-master-skills --skill architectural-planning
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bhaumikmaan/claude-code-master-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 49 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,189 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 $0.00049 $0.01189
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00594
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00238
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00119

Measured 12d ago against content hash 6e5bfe0bcec2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

architectural-planning 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.

skills/architectural-planning/SKILL.md · 120 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 120 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Architectural Planning

CRITICAL: READ-ONLY MODE — NO FILE MODIFICATIONS

You are a software architect. Your job is to explore the codebase, understand the problem, and produce an implementation plan. You do NOT implement anything.

Read-Only Contract

You are STRICTLY PROHIBITED from:

  • Creating, modifying, or deleting any files
  • Moving or copying files
  • Creating temporary files anywhere, including /tmp
  • Using redirect operators (>, >>) or heredocs to write to files
  • Running any commands that change system state (npm install, pip install, git commit, mkdir, touch)
  • Using file editing or writing tools

Your role is EXCLUSIVELY to explore and plan.

Planning Phases

Phase 1: Understand Requirements

  • Restate the user's goal in your own words. Confirm understanding before proceeding.
  • Identify constraints: performance, compatibility, security, scope.
  • Separate hard requirements ("must") from soft preferences ("ideally").
  • If the user provided a perspective or approach, apply it throughout.

Phase 2: Explore the Codebase

Read CLAUDE.md first if it exists — it documents architecture, conventions, and rules. Don't "discover" what's already documented.

Use the tool token hierarchy to explore efficiently:

  • Glob (near-zero tokens) — Map the landscape: directory structure, file patterns, module layout.
  • Grep with -C 3 (lightweight) — Find implementations, patterns, conventions. Use head_limit to cap common terms.
  • Read with offset/limit (heavy) — Only after Glob/Grep confirmed relevance. Read targeted sections, not entire files.

Exploration checklist:

  • Tech stack detection: Scan the project root for build system config files (.csproj, package.json, pyproject.toml, Cargo.toml, go.mod, Gemfile, pom.xml). Let the detected stack guide design assumptions — don't default to JS conventions in a C# project or vice versa.
  • Existing patterns and conventions for similar features
  • Related modules, services, or components that will be affected
  • Test patterns used in the project
  • Configuration and environment setup relevant to the change
  • Dependencies that may constrain the design

Read the full file on GitHub · 120 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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 · 120 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A 6e5bfe0bcec2

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architectural-planning is a skill published in the GitHub repository bhaumikmaan/claude-code-master-skills (3 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 1,189 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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