ai-architect-review

ai-architect-review is a skill for Claude Code from frankxai/claude-skills-library. It costs 88 tokens per session (2,589 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A review process for systems that use language models, including agent loops, retrieval paths, tools, and MCP servers. MCP is a standard way for AI systems to connect to external tools and data.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review, audit, or plan the architecture of AI and agent systems before deployment.
Why use it?
It helps identify architecture problems when an AI prototype needs to become a production system.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Part of the claude-skills-library plugin — 114 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to review, audit, or plan the architecture of AI and agent systems before deployment.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/frankxai/claude-skills-library/ai-architect-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 frankxai/claude-skills-library --skill ai-architect-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/frankxai/claude-skills-library

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claude-skills-library, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 114 skills.

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Per session 88 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,589 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 $0.00088 $0.02589
Opus 5.5 $0.00035 $0.01036
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00018 $0.00518
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00259

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 24d39ff51bda, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ai-architect-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 1mo 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.

free-skills/ai-architect-review/SKILL.md · 235 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 235 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AI architecture review

Most AI system choices are reversible in an afternoon. Four are not. This skill checks those four first, then walks the planes for anything unowned.

Run it against a real codebase. Every check below names something you can grep, measure, or point at. If you cannot produce the evidence, the check fails — an architecture review with no evidence is an opinion.


Step 1 — the four decisions

Work these in order. Each one asks for evidence, not a judgement.

1. Where does the model call go?

The question is not which model. It is whether exactly one place in the system knows a model provider's name.

Evidence: grep for the provider SDK import across the repo.

rg -l "from ['\"](openai|@anthropic-ai/sdk|@google/gen|@aws-sdk/client-bedrock)" --type-add 'src:*.{ts,tsx,js,py,go,rb,java}' -tsrc
  • One module → decision made. Note where the seam is.
  • More than one → deferred, not made. Every call site is a migration cost that grows monotonically. Say this plainly and give the count.

What a single seam buys, that scattered calls cannot: routing by task, fallback when a provider degrades, a cache with a coherent key, and one line item for spend. A system with no fallback path has no fallback path at every layer, whatever the layers above it do.

2. What shape is the loop?

Four shapes. Three questions pick one.

  1. Can you name every step before the request arrives? → fixed workflow
  2. If not: is it one coherent piece of work? → single agent loop
  3. If not: does the work mutate shared state? → sequential sub-agents, otherwise parallel sub-agents
Shape Costs Fails by
Fixed workflow No adaptation when input is not what you planned for Staying confident, going silently wrong once reality drifts from the graph
Single agent loop Latency and spend grow with loop length Losing track of its own earlier decisions as the window fills
Parallel sub-agents A merge step you have to design Duplicating work, then contradicting with no way to adjudicate
Sequential sub-agents Throughput, given up on purpose Being slow enough that someone parallelises the writes again

Read the full file on GitHub · 235 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 1mo ago First seen · 235 lines · 88 tokens per session scan A 24d39ff51bda

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ai-architect-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository frankxai/claude-skills-library (47 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 88 tokens to every session and 2,589 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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