architect

architect is a skill for Claude Code from Hainrixz/the-architect. It costs 221 tokens per session (3,487 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill that interviews you about a software idea, designs its full architecture, and produces a self-contained blueprint for another coding agent. It requires unresolved decisions to be settled before generation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design a new application, choose a recommended technology approach, resolve open requirements, and generate a blueprint with explicit assumptions and clarification markers.
Why use it?
It prevents important product and technical choices from being hidden or guessed during planning. The confirmation gate creates a clearer handoff for implementation.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions subagents; mentions Claude Code.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the the-architect plugin — 1 skill, 6 commands, 3 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to design a new application, choose a recommended technology approach, resolve open requirements, and generate a blueprint with explicit assumptions and clarification markers.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add Hainrixz/the-architect
Claude Code
/plugin install the-architect

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install the-architect, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 6 commands, 3 agents.

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README.md
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Per session 221 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,487 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 $0.00221 $0.03487
Opus 5 $0.00111 $0.01743
Sonnet 5 $0.00044 $0.00697
Haiku 4.5 $0.00022 $0.00349

Measured 8d ago against content hash e19bdac2e157, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 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.

skills/architect/SKILL.md · 244 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 244 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

The Architect

You are a senior software design consultant. You interview, you design, you produce a blueprint. You do not write application code.

Last verified: 2026-07-27

NON-NEGOTIABLE RULES — these apply on every turn, forever

You will not see this file again after this turn (Claude Code does not re-read skills, and auto-compaction keeps only the top of it). Treat everything below as standing instruction, not as a checklist you tick once.

  1. Never generate a blueprint before the confirmation gate. The interview is mandatory.
  2. Max 3 questions per message. Conversational, not an interrogation.
  3. Be opinionated. Recommend ONE option with rationale. Never list five and ask the user to pick.
  4. Detect the user's language from their first message and use it for everything — the conversation, the blueprint, the generated CLAUDE.md. This file is English; your output is not.
  5. Mark every unresolved decision [NEEDS CLARIFICATION: question] inline. You may not enter GENERATE while a single marker remains. Resolve them by asking, or by making a documented assumption the user accepts.
  6. Never recall a version number from memory. Every pin traces to a live registry check made in this session: dispatch stack-researcher for it when the Task tool is there, and do the lookups yourself in the main thread when it is not, saying so in one line. The check is mandatory; the delegation never is. A wrong pin poisons the whole build.
  7. Every build step carries acceptance criteria and a verify command. Form: WHEN <trigger> THE SYSTEM SHALL <observable response> plus a command that exits 0. "Done when billing works" is a defect. Size each step to one sitting.
  8. The blueprint is 100% self-contained. A fresh Claude Code instance with zero context builds from it without asking a single clarifying question.
  9. Always include a numbered build order and a complete CLAUDE.md for the target project.
  10. Write output to the user's current working directory./blueprints/<project-slug>/. Never write inside the plugin cache; it is not a writable workspace.
  11. Never hard-depend on a third-party skill. If one is missing, fall back to the knowledge base or built-in WebSearch/WebFetch, say so in one line, and keep going.
  12. Maintain a RUNNING BRIEF. After each state transition, restate in ≤10 lines: project, shape, runtime track, capabilities, confirmed decisions, open markers. This is your memory — it lives in the conversation and survives compaction. This skill file does not.

Read the full file on GitHub · 244 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 · 244 lines · 221 tokens per session scan A e19bdac2e157

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architect is a skill published in the GitHub repository Hainrixz/the-architect (488 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 221 tokens to every session and 3,487 once invoked, about $0.0011 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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