Archon Manager

Archon Manager is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from daffy0208/ai-dev-standards. It costs 59 tokens per session (5,835 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A project-management and knowledge-management guide for Archon MCP, a system that tracks projects and tasks and searches stored documentation and code examples. It separates strategic decisions about what and when to build from practical implementation guidance.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create projects and tasks, track priorities and status, search documentation or PDFs, plan upcoming work, and maintain shared knowledge across development sessions.
Why use it?
It helps teams keep priorities, task status, project knowledge, and decisions in one place. It can also preserve context and coordinate multiple coding assistants working on the same project.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Good fit Use it to create projects and tasks, track priorities and status, search documentation or PDFs, plan upcoming work, and maintain shared knowledge across development sessions.

Compare 6 skills from other repositories ↓
Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/daffy0208/ai-dev-standards/archon-manager
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 daffy0208/ai-dev-standards --skill archon-manager
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/daffy0208/ai-dev-standards

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 Archon Manager

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/daffy0208/ai-dev-standards/archon-manager/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/daffy0208/ai-dev-standards/archon-manager)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/daffy0208/ai-dev-standards/archon-manager"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/daffy0208/ai-dev-standards/archon-manager/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for Archon Manager

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/daffy0208/ai-dev-standards/archon-manager"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/daffy0208/ai-dev-standards/archon-manager.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 59 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,835 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 $0.00059 $0.05835
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.02917
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.01167
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00583

Measured 9d ago against content hash 84c37fed232e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Archon Manager 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/archon-manager/SKILL.md · 937 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 937 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Archon Manager

Master Archon MCP for strategic project management and knowledge operations.

Archon is the command center for AI coding assistants, providing:

  • Strategic Layer: Project management, task tracking, priority-based workflow (WHAT/WHEN)
  • Knowledge Layer: RAG queries, web crawling, document processing, code examples
  • Integration Layer: Connects Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf with unified context

The Two-Layer Architecture:

  • Archon (this skill) = Strategic (WHAT to build, WHEN)
  • Skills = Tactical (HOW to build well)
  • Together = Optimal outcomes

When to Use This Skill

  • Project Setup: Creating hierarchical projects with features and tasks
  • Task Management: Priority-based workflow (P0/P1/P2), status tracking
  • Knowledge Queries: RAG searches across documentation, code examples, PDFs
  • Strategic Planning: Using Archon to decide WHAT to build next
  • Two-Layer Workflow: Implementing Archon (strategic) + Skills (tactical) pattern
  • Context Preservation: Maintaining project knowledge across sessions
  • AI Coordination: Synchronizing multiple AI assistants on same project

Core Concepts

1. The Two-Layer Architecture

┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│           ARCHON MCP SERVER                      │
│           (Strategic Layer)                      │
│                                                  │
│  • Project management & task tracking           │
│  • Priority-based workflow (P0/P1/P2)          │
│  • Knowledge queries (RAG)                      │
│  • Code example search                          │
│  • Progress tracking & metrics                  │
│  • Context preservation                         │
└─────────────────┬────────────────────────────────┘
                  │
                  │ invokes when needed
                  ↓
┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│      AI-DEV-STANDARDS SKILLS                     │
│      (Tactical Layer)                            │
│                                                  │
│  • Domain-specific expertise                    │
│  • Implementation patterns                      │
│  • Quality standards                            │
│  • Best practices                               │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Read the full file on GitHub · 937 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 · 937 lines · 59 tokens per session scan A 84c37fed232e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

Archon Manager is a skill published in the GitHub repository daffy0208/ai-dev-standards (36 stars, last pushed 8mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 59 tokens to every session and 5,835 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.

Related

Other skills, from other repositories

adapter-authoring

Build a custom source → raw-intake adapter for Athenaeum. Use when someone wants to feed an external source (an API, an export file, a message feed, a scraper, another tool's output) into an Athenaeum knowledge base, asks "how do I write an adapter / integration for athenaeum", or wants to turn some data source into…

Kromatic-Innovation/athenaeum · 86 tokens

brain

Health-check the second brain so failures are not silent: is the local search server alive, is the RAG index fresh, is the session-memory ledger filling, did the nightly distillation run. Read-only, with a green/red verdict per component. Triggers: "/brain", "/memory", "is the reindex alive".

tonydzi/second-brain-starter-kit · 68 tokens

llm-wiki-orient

Explain the LLM-Wiki pattern, its raw/wiki/schema architecture, how it differs from RAG, GraphRAG and agent memory, and what ready-made solution families exist. Use when the user asks what LLM-Wiki is, whether it is worth adopting, what OpenWiki/wiki memory means, or how the ecosystem fits together.

po4yka/llm-wiki-skills · 75 tokens

llm-wiki-local-first-stack

Design a local-first LLM-Wiki stack. Use when the user wants Markdown, git, Obsidian, ripgrep, local embeddings, qmd-style retrieval, SQLite/FTS/vector indexes, local LLMs, offline operation, or safe sync without cloud lock-in; route retrieval/index layer design to llm-wiki-retrieval-architect.

po4yka/llm-wiki-skills · 81 tokens

obsidian

Compatibility slash-command alias for the Vault Operations phase of obsidian-memory-wiki. Install/load obsidian-memory-wiki as the canonical parent skill.

cobibean/agent-memory-wiki · 32 tokens

knowledge-base-interop

Two-layer knowledge architecture — curate in LLM Wiki, search in Astra KB. Covers input classification, source-to-wiki ingestion, wiki-to-KB export (batch + realtime), semantic chunking, SAG extraction, health checks, and multi-format export.

alrcatraz/astra-knowledge-base-mcp · 56 tokens