extended-thinking-architect

extended-thinking-architect is a skill for Claude Code from borghei/Claude-Skills. It costs 51 tokens per session (1,317 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A guide for deciding how much model reasoning to use for a task. It helps choose when extended thinking is worthwhile and balance answer quality against the cost of using more reasoning.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to set a reasoning budget, decide whether a reasoning-focused model is appropriate, or tune the trade-off between reasoning and cost.
Why use it?
Not every task needs the same amount of model effort, and using more reasoning can increase cost or delay. A deliberate choice helps match the model's effort to the task.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the engineering-advanced-skills plugin — 74 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to set a reasoning budget, decide whether a reasoning-focused model is appropriate, or tune the trade-off between reasoning and cost.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/borghei/claude-skills/extended-thinking-architect
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 borghei/Claude-Skills --skill extended-thinking-architect
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/borghei/Claude-Skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install engineering-advanced-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 74 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 51 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,317 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 unknown 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 $0.00051 $0.01317
Opus 5.5 $0.00020 $0.00527
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00263
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00132

Measured 28d ago against content hash 5ab6ed16d178, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

extended-thinking-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 28d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/reasoning_budget_advisor.py, scripts/reasoning_loop_allocator.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

engineering/extended-thinking-architect/SKILL.md · 98 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

Read it on GitHub

Files

What ships with it

4 files 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. 28d ago First seen · 98 lines · 51 tokens per session scan A 5ab6ed16d178

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extended-thinking-architect is a skill published in the GitHub repository borghei/Claude-Skills (949 stars, last pushed 13d ago), with no licence file. It adds 51 tokens to every session and 1,317 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-22.