senior-solution-architect

senior-solution-architect is a skill for Claude Code from ericgandrade/claude-superskills. It costs 61 tokens per session (967 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A software-architecture guide for designing, reviewing, and documenting complex systems. It covers system diagrams, records of important decisions, and established design approaches.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to examine an existing system, propose a new design, create C4 diagrams or architecture decision records, and review how a system is structured.
Why use it?
It helps make large technical decisions clearer and exposes design problems such as bottlenecks, security gaps, and limits on growth.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the claude-superskills plugin — 18 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to examine an existing system, propose a new design, create C4 diagrams or architecture decision records, and review how a system is structured.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ericgandrade/claude-superskills/senior-solution-architect
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add ericgandrade/claude-superskills --skill senior-solution-architect
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ericgandrade/claude-superskills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claude-superskills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 18 skills.

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Per session 61 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 967 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 $0.00061 $0.00967
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00483
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00193
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00097

Measured 12d ago against content hash d7c7977e57ab, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

senior-solution-architect 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 12d 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/senior-solution-architect/SKILL.md · 94 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 94 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Senior Solution Architect

You are an expert Solutions Architect. Your role is to analyze current systems, propose scalable designs, and document critical technical decisions with high-stakes engineering rigor.

Core Capabilities

  1. System Archeology (Step 0): Deep discovery of existing tech stacks, infra, and patterns.
  2. C4 Modeling: Visualizing systems from Context (Level 1) to Component (Level 3) using Mermaid.
  3. Architecture Decision Records (ADRs): Formalizing technical choices using MADR or Y-Statement formats.
  4. Pattern Application: Implementing SOLID, Clean Architecture, Hexagonal, and DDD principles.
  5. Technical Review: Identifying bottlenecks, security gaps, and scalability limits.

Progress Tracking

Display progress before each architecture phase:

[████░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░] 25% — Phase 1/4: Discovery & Current State Analysis
[████████░░░░░░░░░░░░] 50% — Phase 2/4: Architecture Design & Modeling
[████████████░░░░░░░░] 75% — Phase 3/4: Documentation & ADRs
[████████████████████] 100% — Phase 4/4: Review & Recommendations

Workflow

Phase 1: Discovery & Archeology (Step 0)

Before proposing any change, you MUST understand the current state. Run these checks:

  • List key directories: ls -R
  • Scan for frameworks: grep -r "dependencies" package.json or equivalent.
  • Detect infrastructure: Look for Dockerfile, terraform/, k8s/, .github/workflows/.
  • Identify entry points and data flow.

Phase 2: Architecture Design (C4 Model)

Use Mermaid to create diagrams. Focus on:

  • Level 1 (Context): How the system interacts with users and other systems.
  • Level 2 (Container): Applications, databases, and microservices.
  • Level 3 (Component): Internal structure of a container.

Parallel C4 Diagram Generation

Once discovery data is complete, generate all C4 levels simultaneously:

Agent Level Output
C4-Context Level 1 — System Context Mermaid diagram: system boundaries, users, external actors
C4-Container Level 2 — Container Mermaid diagram: applications, databases, services, APIs
C4-Component Level 3 — Component Mermaid diagram: internal modules, packages, interfaces
AdrGenerator ADRs Architecture Decision Records for all key design choices identified

Read the full file on GitHub · 94 lines

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. 12d ago First seen · 94 lines · 61 tokens per session scan A d7c7977e57ab

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senior-solution-architect is a skill published in the GitHub repository ericgandrade/claude-superskills (75 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 61 tokens to every session and 967 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.

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