architecture-review-board

architecture-review-board is a skill for Claude Code from camilooscargbaptista/cto-toolkit. It costs 17 tokens per session (949 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A governance process for reviewing architecture changes through proposals, discussion, decisions, and written records. An RFC is a document proposing a change for review, and an ADR records the final technical decision.

In plain words
What is it for?
Running architecture reviews, approving or rejecting proposed changes, maintaining decision logs, and coordinating technical standards across teams.
Why use it?
It creates a consistent way to compare alternatives, assess impact, and preserve why a technical choice was made.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the cto-toolkit plugin — 54 skills, 6 agents, 3 hooks shipped together

Good fit Running architecture reviews, approving or rejecting proposed changes, maintaining decision logs, and coordinating technical standards across teams.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/camilooscargbaptista/cto-toolkit/architecture-review-board
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 camilooscargbaptista/cto-toolkit --skill architecture-review-board
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/camilooscargbaptista/cto-toolkit

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install cto-toolkit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 54 skills, 6 agents, 3 hooks.

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Per session 17 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 949 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 $0.00017 $0.00949
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00475
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00190
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00095

Measured 11d ago against content hash 6ec797531b1c, 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-board 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.

architecture-review-board/SKILL.md · 125 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 125 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Architecture Review Board (ARB)

When to Use

  • Establishing a technical decision governance process
  • Reviewing proposed architecture changes before implementation
  • Maintaining consistency across teams and services
  • Building organizational knowledge through decision logs

ARB Process

┌──────────┐    ┌──────────┐    ┌──────────┐    ┌──────────┐
│ Proposal  │───►│  Review   │───►│ Decision  │───►│ Record   │
│ (RFC)     │    │ (Meeting) │    │ (Vote)    │    │ (ADR)    │
└──────────┘    └──────────┘    └──────────┘    └──────────┘
   Author         ARB Board       Approve/        Decision
   writes          reviews        Reject/          logged
                                  Defer

RFC Template

# RFC: [Title]

**Author**: [name]
**Date**: YYYY-MM-DD
**Status**: Draft / In Review / Approved / Rejected

## Problem Statement
[What problem are we solving and why now?]

## Proposed Solution
[Technical approach with diagrams]

## Alternatives Considered
| Option | Pros | Cons |
|--------|------|------|
| Option A | ... | ... |
| Option B | ... | ... |

## Impact Analysis
- Services affected: [list]
- Database changes: [yes/no, describe]
- API changes: [breaking/non-breaking]
- Performance impact: [estimate]
- Security implications: [describe]

## Migration Plan
[How to get from current state to proposed state]

## Risks
1. [Risk with mitigation]

## Open Questions
1. [Question that needs ARB input]

Review Criteria

  • Aligns with existing architecture and tech stack
  • Considers security implications
  • Has a migration/rollback plan
  • Performance impact assessed
  • Cost implications understood
  • Team has expertise to implement and maintain
  • Doesn't introduce unnecessary technology

When ARB Review is Required

Change Type Review Required?
New external dependency ✅ Yes
New database ✅ Yes
New programming language ✅ Yes
New microservice ✅ Yes
Architecture pattern change ✅ Yes
API breaking change ✅ Yes
Internal refactoring ❌ No (team decision)
Library update ❌ No (unless major version)
Bug fixes ❌ No
New feature (existing patterns) ❌ No

Read the full file on GitHub · 125 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 · 125 lines · 17 tokens per session scan A 6ec797531b1c

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architecture-review-board is a skill published in the GitHub repository camilooscargbaptista/cto-toolkit (7 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 17 tokens to every session and 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 2026-08-31.