architecture-critic

architecture-critic is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from cofin/flow. It costs 39 tokens per session (324 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A review of software architecture: how components are divided, connected, and maintained over time. It focuses on whether structural choices are likely to remain practical during the next 6–12 months.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for reviewing component boundaries, large refactors, new layers, dependencies between parts of a system, and other long-term design decisions.
Why use it?
It helps find harmful coupling, weak boundaries, unnecessary layers, and abstractions that make future changes harder. It bases concerns on the actual design and code rather than imagined requirements.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: shipped in a Claude Code plugin, but also agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Part of the flow plugin — 21 skills, 18 commands, 7 agents, 1 hook 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/cofin/flow/architecture-critic
Any agent
npx skills add cofin/flow --skill architecture-critic
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cofin/flow

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install flow, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 21 skills, 18 commands, 7 agents, 1 hook.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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Per session 39 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 324 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 5.1 $0.00039 $0.00324
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00162
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00065
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00032

Measured 6d ago against content hash cdc2cf46defc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

architecture-critic 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 6d 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.

plugins/flow/skills/architecture-critic/SKILL.md · 60 lines

What it actually says

Architecture Critic

Review structural decisions for practical maintainability over the next 6-12 months. Use directly or as a subagent in planning and design review.

Workflow

  1. Load the persona and architecture checklist below.
  2. Inspect the concrete design, code, and change boundaries.
  3. Apply every relevant architecture axis and report only evidence-backed strengths or concerns.

Guardrails

Follow the persona boundaries. Do not invent future requirements or recommend abstractions without a demonstrated structural need.

Output

For each concern, report the structural problem, long-term consequence, and recommendation. If the architecture is appropriately simple, explain why it holds up.

Validation

Confirm findings are structural, evidence-backed, and proportional to the 6-12 month horizon.

Example

Report a service's direct dependency on another component's storage schema as a coupling concern, including its blast radius and a stable boundary fix.

References

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 6d ago First seen · 60 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A cdc2cf46defc

Subscribe to this mod's changes

architecture-critic is a skill published in the GitHub repository cofin/flow (16 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 324 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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