architecture

architecture is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from cgyudistira/agentkit. It costs 28 tokens per session (361 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of architecture, MIT.

A framework for making software architecture decisions, meaning decisions about how a system is organized. It covers requirements, trade-offs, design patterns, and ADRs—written records explaining why a technical choice was made.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when designing a new system, choosing patterns, evaluating database or API approaches, or documenting architecture decisions.
Why use it?
It helps compare design options and record the reasoning, so important choices are deliberate and easier to revisit.

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/cgyudistira/agentkit/architecture
Any agent
npx skills add cgyudistira/agentkit --skill architecture
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cgyudistira/agentkit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for architecture

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/cgyudistira/agentkit/architecture.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/cgyudistira/agentkit/architecture)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/cgyudistira/agentkit/architecture"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/cgyudistira/agentkit/architecture.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 28 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 361 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 84% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00028 $0.00361
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00180
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00072
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00036

Measured 4d ago against content hash 43c45f6db391, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 4d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

84% identical to architecture — 2 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

templates/skills/architecture/SKILL.md · 56 lines

What it actually says

Architecture Decision Framework

"Requirements drive architecture. Trade-offs inform decisions. ADRs capture rationale."

🎯 Selective Reading Rule

Read ONLY files relevant to the request! Check the content map, find what you need.

File Description When to Read
context-discovery.md Questions to ask, project classification Starting architecture design
trade-off-analysis.md ADR templates, trade-off framework Documenting decisions
pattern-selection.md Decision trees, anti-patterns Choosing patterns
examples.md MVP, SaaS, Enterprise examples Reference implementations
patterns-reference.md Quick lookup for patterns Pattern comparison

Skill Use For
@[skills/database-design] Database schema design
@[skills/api-patterns] API design patterns
@[skills/deployment-procedures] Deployment architecture

Core Principle

"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."

  • Start simple
  • Add complexity ONLY when proven necessary
  • You can always add patterns later
  • Removing complexity is MUCH harder than adding it

Validation Checklist

Before finalizing architecture:

  • Requirements clearly understood
  • Constraints identified
  • Each decision has trade-off analysis
  • Simpler alternatives considered
  • ADRs written for significant decisions
  • Team expertise matches chosen patterns
Files

What ships with it

5 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. 4d ago First seen · 56 lines · 28 tokens per session scan A 43c45f6db391

Subscribe to this mod's changes

architecture is a skill published in the GitHub repository cgyudistira/agentkit (2 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 28 tokens to every session and 361 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 84% identical to architecture, differing in 2 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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