architecture-reviewer

architecture-reviewer is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from codebygarv/Ai-skills. It costs 37 tokens per session (563 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for reviewing an application’s overall structure: how its parts are separated, connected, and scaled. Architecture means the high-level design of a system, beyond individual files or functions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess proposed or existing system designs, find likely bottlenecks, and improve separation of responsibilities and long-term maintainability.
Why use it?
It helps explain why a codebase is difficult to change or may fail as usage grows, including problems caused by tight dependencies or unclear ownership.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to assess proposed or existing system designs, find likely bottlenecks, and improve separation of responsibilities and long-term maintainability.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/codebygarv/ai-skills/architecture-reviewer
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 codebygarv/Ai-skills --skill architecture-reviewer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/codebygarv/Ai-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 563 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 $0.00037 $0.00563
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00282
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00113
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00056

Measured 9d ago against content hash 390b1066b975, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

architecture-reviewer 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 9d 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/architecture/architecture-reviewer/SKILL.md · 37 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 37 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Purpose

Review a system's architecture — how components/services are divided, how they communicate, where state lives, and how the pieces depend on each other — for scalability, coupling, and long-term maintainability, at a level above individual code review.

When to Use

  • Evaluating a proposed or existing system architecture.
  • Before a significant scaling milestone, to find what will break first.
  • A codebase feels hard to change, and the cause seems structural rather than isolated to one file.

What to Analyze

  1. Separation of concerns — are responsibilities cleanly divided (data access, business logic, presentation), or is logic scattered/duplicated across layers that shouldn't need to know about each other?
  2. Coupling — how many places break if one component changes its interface? Tight coupling between components that should be independent is the main long-term maintainability risk.
  3. Scalability — what's the first component to become a bottleneck under significantly more load/data, and is that dependency structural (hard to fix later) or incidental (easy to fix later)?
  4. Data flow & state ownership — is it clear which component owns a given piece of state/data, or is the same data mutated from multiple places with no clear source of truth?
  5. Failure isolation — does one component's failure cascade to unrelated components, or is blast radius contained?
  6. Evolvability — how hard is it to add a plausible near-future requirement (a new integration, a new client type) given the current structure?

Output Format

  • A short description of the architecture as understood, to confirm shared understanding before critiquing it.
  • Findings grouped by area (Separation of Concerns, Coupling, Scalability, Data Ownership, Failure Isolation, Evolvability).
  • Each finding: the structural issue, the concrete scenario where it causes pain, and a directionally concrete recommendation (not just "reduce coupling" — name the specific boundary to introduce).
  • Distinguish issues worth fixing now vs. acceptable technical debt given current scale/priorities.

Read the full file on GitHub · 37 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 9d ago First seen · 37 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A 390b1066b975

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architecture-reviewer is a skill published in the GitHub repository codebygarv/Ai-skills (25 stars, last pushed 20d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 563 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 2026-08-30.

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