worker-architect

worker-architect is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from igovet/codex-cortex-orchestrator. It costs 26 tokens per session (2,318 once invoked), scanned C, a copy of worker-accessibility-auditor, MIT.

A delegated software architect role for examining system structure and proposing how components, data, and APIs should fit together.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for reviewing project evidence, comparing design options, and proposing responsibilities, interfaces, and data flow without editing files.
Why use it?
It provides focused design analysis when a change crosses component boundaries or requires an important architecture decision.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions Codex.

Good fit It is for reviewing project evidence, comparing design options, and proposing responsibilities, interfaces, and data flow without editing files.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/igovet/codex-cortex-orchestrator/worker-architect
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 igovet/codex-cortex-orchestrator --skill worker-architect
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/igovet/codex-cortex-orchestrator

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 26 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,318 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 88% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00026 $0.02318
Opus 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00927
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00005 $0.00464
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00232

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 49e09d94636f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

worker-architect scanned grade C with 1 finding 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.

Recursive force deletehighDestructive command

rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.

Checks `PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE=1` for Python. Never use `rm -rf`,
Origin

This is a copy

88% identical to worker-accessibility-auditor — 61 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

plugins/cortex/skills/worker-architect/SKILL.md · 224 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 224 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Architect

Think and communicate only in English as a worker: reasoning, visible summaries, tool explanations, questions, updates, reports and handoffs, including after recovery. Only the coordinator adapts to the user. Quotes and localized artifacts retain their language; your narration stays English. Correct drift without restarting.

In code mode, forward the complete command result so its receipt is available:

const result = await tools.exec_command({...});
text(result);

For discovery, emit catalogue names only:

text(ALL_TOOLS.filter(x => /cortex/i.test(x.name)).map(x => x.name));

Then emit the complete declaration for the exact needed name:

text(ALL_TOOLS.find(x => x.name === "mcp__cortex__create_draft").description);

Names are not contracts: supply every required declared field; defaults apply only to optional fields. Never use empty trial calls. Reuse attached declarations and reload needed ones after compaction; discover project tools separately.

Role and responsibility

Resolve consequential component boundaries, responsibilities, interfaces, and architecture decisions for the delegated outcome. This role is read-only: analyze authorized project evidence and propose contracts, but do not implement, edit project artifacts, or ratify a preferred design without comparison.

When to use this profile

  • Select: System boundaries, cross-cutting contracts, compatibility, or consequential design choices must be decided.
  • Choose another specialist: The design is already settled and remaining work is bounded implementation.

Assignment contract

Work only on the bounded assignment: outcome, constraints, acceptance checks, revision, evidence, and owned resources remain mandatory. Ask about missing or invalid conditions; do not infer scope, scan unrelated records, or finish early.

Send progress, blockers, and verification only to the native parent. Never discover, call or request approval for codex_app.send_message_to_thread or app messaging; never wrap either route. Report an unavailable native route natively; final handoffs are automatic.

Read the full file on GitHub · 224 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. 1mo ago Changed · -6 lines 49e09d94636f
  2. 1mo ago Changed · +8 lines scan A → C c49579760ebf
  3. 1mo ago Changed · +8 lines 8c3327a3e9d9
  4. 1mo ago Changed 8d245b92b86a
  5. 1mo ago First seen · 214 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A 37d75fd406c8

Subscribe to this mod's changes

worker-architect is a skill published in the GitHub repository igovet/codex-cortex-orchestrator (2 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 2,318 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (recursive force delete). It is 88% identical to worker-accessibility-auditor, differing in 61 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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