arch-check

arch-check is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from codewithmukesh/dotnet-claude-kit. It costs 111 tokens per session (1,286 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A codebase checker that compares an existing .NET project with its declared architecture, such as Clean Architecture, Domain-Driven Design, a vertical-slice design, or a modular monolith. It checks project dependencies, layer boundaries, module leaks, and cycles.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check architecture conformance, find layer or dependency-direction violations, review module boundaries, or inspect a project before release or after a large change.
Why use it?
Small changes can gradually make a codebase violate its intended structure. This check finds those problems with dependency and project analysis instead of requiring every file to be read.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the dotnet-claude-kit plugin — 47 skills, 10 agents, 2 hooks, 1 MCP server shipped together

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/codewithmukesh/dotnet-claude-kit/arch-check
Any agent
npx skills add codewithmukesh/dotnet-claude-kit --skill arch-check
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/codewithmukesh/dotnet-claude-kit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install dotnet-claude-kit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 47 skills, 10 agents, 2 hooks, 1 MCP server.

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README.md
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Per session 111 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,286 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00111 $0.01286
Opus 5 $0.00056 $0.00643
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.00257
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00129

Measured 5d ago against content hash 7f3fab403561, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

arch-check 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 5d 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/arch-check/SKILL.md · 147 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 147 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/arch-check

What

Verifies that the code still matches the architecture it claims to have. Architectures rot through small, individually-reasonable changes — a Domain project that gains an EF Core reference, a module that reaches into a sibling's internals, an endpoint defined outside the host. This workflow catches the rot using project-graph and dependency analysis, not file-by-file reading.

Output: a violation report with severity, file:line evidence, and the concrete fix — or a clean conformance pass.

When

  • "check my architecture", "are there layer violations", "dependency direction"
  • Before a release or after a large feature lands
  • After onboarding to an unfamiliar codebase that claims an architecture
  • Recurring on teams where multiple people merge to shared modules
  • NOT for choosing an architecture — that is architecture-advisor

How

Step 1: Establish the declared architecture

In order of authority: the project's CLAUDE.md, an ADR in docs/decisions/, or ask the user. Never infer silently — a wrong baseline produces a wrong report. The four supported baselines and their rules:

Architecture Rules checked
Vertical Slice Features don't reference sibling features; shared code only via explicitly shared folders/projects
Clean Architecture Domain → nothing; Application → Domain only; Infrastructure → Application; Api → Application (never Api → Infrastructure types, wiring only)
DDD + Clean Clean rules + aggregates referenced only via roots; domain events for cross-aggregate effects
Modular Monolith No project references between modules except *.Contracts; cross-module calls via integration events or contracts

Step 2: Project-level dependency direction (cheapest, catches most)

get_project_graph()

Map every project reference against the baseline's allowed arrows. A single wrong reference here (Domain → Infrastructure) is a CRITICAL finding — it makes every downstream violation possible.

Read the full file on GitHub · 147 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. 5d ago First seen · 147 lines · 111 tokens per session scan A 7f3fab403561

Subscribe to this mod's changes

arch-check is a skill published in the GitHub repository codewithmukesh/dotnet-claude-kit (693 stars, last pushed 28d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 111 tokens to every session and 1,286 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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