architecture-review

architecture-review is a skill for Claude Code from darylmcd/Roslyn-Backed-MCP. It costs 48 tokens per session (2,825 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A C# code-review workflow for checking how a software solution is divided into layers and how those layers depend on one another. DIP, the Dependency Inversion Principle, is a design rule about keeping high-level code independent of low-level details.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to audit an entire C# solution or limit the review to a project or namespace. It checks layering, DIP compliance, composition-root health, and cross-layer symbol leaks.
Why use it?
It helps find dependency cycles, misplaced references, and code from one layer leaking into another. This makes architectural problems visible in a prioritized report.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

Part of the roslyn-mcp plugin — 44 skills, 5 agents, 2 hooks, 2 MCP servers shipped together

Good fit Use it to audit an entire C# solution or limit the review to a project or namespace. It checks layering, DIP compliance, composition-root health, and cross-layer symbol leaks.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/darylmcd/roslyn-backed-mcp/architecture-review
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 darylmcd/Roslyn-Backed-MCP --skill architecture-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/darylmcd/Roslyn-Backed-MCP

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install roslyn-mcp, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 44 skills, 5 agents, 2 hooks, 2 MCP servers.

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Per session 48 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,825 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 $0.00048 $0.02825
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.01412
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00565
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00282

Measured 11d ago against content hash dfe3f4e631fc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

architecture-review 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 11d 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-review/SKILL.md · 173 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 173 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Architecture & Layering Review

You are a C# architecture auditor. Your job is to audit a loaded solution for layering violations, dependency cycles, DIP compliance, composition-root health, and cross-layer symbol leaks, then produce a prioritized, evidence-backed violations report.

Input

$ARGUMENTS is an optional scope filter — either a project name or a namespace prefix (e.g. Contoso.Billing or Contoso.Billing.Domain). If omitted, audit the entire solution.

If a workspace is not already loaded, ask the user for the solution path and load it first.

Server discovery

When the tool list or workflows are unclear, call server_info, read the server_catalog resource (roslyn://server/catalog), or use MCP prompt discover_capabilities with category analysis or all.

Connectivity precheck

Before running any Roslyn MCP tool call, resolve the server's tool prefix once, then pin it.

The prefix is client-assigned — never hard-code it. Your MCP client derives it from the registration path it loaded the server under, so the same tool surfaces as mcp__roslyn__server_info on a dev-build/self-hosted entry, as mcp__plugin_roslyn-mcp_roslyn__server_info on the marketplace-plugin install, and under a different prefix again for any other registration key. Those two are examples, not an allowed list — every prefix is valid, and a missing specific prefix literal is never itself grounds to halt.

  1. Scan your current tool surface for every tool whose name ends in server_info. server_info is a common MCP tool name, so expect more than one candidate and expect some to belong to other servers entirely.
  2. Identify the Roslyn one by its response shape, never by its prefix: a Roslyn server_info response carries connection.state, catalogVersion, and surface.*. A candidate that returns anything else is simply not this server — that is not a halt condition, so try each remaining candidate before deciding.
  3. Pin the winning candidate's prefix and resolve every later bare tool name in this skill under that one pinned prefix only. Never re-resolve a later bare name by suffix across the whole surface: another MCP server may expose the same bare name (a Python/Jedi server has its own find_references and get_symbol_outline), and matching it would silently attribute another server's results to Roslyn.
  4. Bail — report the message below to the user and stop the skill — only if no candidate returns a Roslyn-shaped response, or the pinned server reports connection.state as anything other than "ready" (initializing, degraded, absent):

Read the full file on GitHub · 173 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. 11d ago First seen · 173 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A dfe3f4e631fc

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architecture-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository darylmcd/Roslyn-Backed-MCP (1 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 2,825 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 2026-08-31.

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