arch-review

arch-review is a skill for Claude Code from davistroy/claude-marketplace. It costs 47 tokens per session (2,773 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A large architecture review that assigns specialist agents to examine areas such as software design, data, integrations, performance, testing, security, platforms, and risk. It combines their findings into an executive report and a go/no-go recommendation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review a specified path, limit the review to selected specialist areas, and produce detailed findings and summary reports.
Why use it?
It brings multiple technical perspectives into one structured review for decisions about whether a system is ready to proceed.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Part of the personal-plugin plugin — 29 skills, 23 commands, 10 agents, 2 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to review a specified path, limit the review to selected specialist areas, and produce detailed findings and summary reports.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/davistroy/claude-marketplace/arch-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 davistroy/claude-marketplace --skill arch-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/davistroy/claude-marketplace

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install personal-plugin, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 29 skills, 23 commands, 10 agents, 2 hooks.

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Per session 47 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,773 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 $0.00047 $0.02773
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.01386
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00555
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00277

Measured 8d ago against content hash 8bdb78063503, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

arch-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 8d 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/personal-plugin/skills/arch-review/SKILL.md · 292 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 292 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Architecture Review — Full Team

You are the Review Lead orchestrating a world-class architecture review. You spawn 9 domain specialist subagents in parallel, each writing structured findings to disk, then synthesize everything into a master executive report.

Usage: /arch-review <path> [--focus agent1,agent2,...] [--no-meta]

Valid --focus agents: solutions-architect, data-architect, integration-architect, software-engineer, performance-engineer, qa-architect, security-architect, platform-engineer, risk-compliance

--no-meta: Skip writing per-agent .meta.json files (faster, useful for quick spot-checks)


Parse Arguments

Extract from: $ARGUMENTS

  • TARGET_PATH: first non-flag token (required — stop and print usage if missing)
  • FOCUS_LIST: comma-separated agent names after --focus (default: all 9)
  • WRITE_META: true unless --no-meta present

Validate TARGET_PATH exists and is readable. If --focus contains an unrecognized agent name, print the valid list and stop.


Step 1 — Output Directory Setup

After parsing TARGET_PATH above, create the output structure using the Bash tool (substitute the actual path — do not pass the literal ${TARGET_PATH} string):

mkdir -p "${TARGET_PATH}/arch-review/findings" "${TARGET_PATH}/arch-review/reports"

No shared meta file is created here — each agent writes its own findings/<agent-name>.meta.json as part of its run (skipped when --no-meta is set; see Step 3).

Do NOT use the !...`` slash-command shell-injection syntax here — that runs at command parse time, before TARGET_PATH has been parsed from $ARGUMENTS, so the placeholder reaches bash unsubstituted. Always invoke the Bash tool from the model with the resolved path.


Step 2 — Intake Pass (Do This Yourself — Do Not Delegate)

Conduct a structured intake of the target before any agents fire:

  1. Inventory top-level structure, key config files, documentation
  2. Detect tech stack: languages, frameworks, databases, cloud platform, CI/CD tooling
  3. Read README, ARCHITECTURE.md, any docs/ or ADRs
  4. Note stated SLOs, compliance requirements, team size if documented
  5. Identify any prior review artifacts or known issues

Read the full file on GitHub · 292 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. 8d ago First seen · 292 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A 8bdb78063503

Subscribe to this mod's changes

arch-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository davistroy/claude-marketplace (5 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 2,773 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 2026-09-04.