architecting-software

architecting-software is a skill for Claude Code from isvlasov/rageatc-oss. It costs 45 tokens per session (3,106 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for deciding how a software system should be structured after its product requirements document, or PRD, has been approved. It produces an architecture document and, when needed, records important technical decisions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design system structure, choose technologies and databases, plan integrations, and record significant architecture decisions.
Why use it?
It turns an agreed description of what to build into clear boundaries, technology choices, and data responsibilities before coding begins.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the rageatc-code-oss plugin — 21 skills, 5 agents, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it to design system structure, choose technologies and databases, plan integrations, and record significant architecture decisions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/isvlasov/rageatc-oss/architecting-software
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 isvlasov/rageatc-oss --skill architecting-software
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/isvlasov/rageatc-oss

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install rageatc-code-oss, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 21 skills, 5 agents, 1 hook.

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Per session 45 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,106 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 $0.00045 $0.03106
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.01553
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00621
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00311

Measured 9d ago against content hash e190ddcd606c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

architecting-software 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 9d 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/rageatc-code-oss/skills/architecting-software/SKILL.md · 206 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 206 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Architecting Software

Translates a confirmed PRD ("what to build") into system structure ("how to build it") — systematically, driver-first, without the documented failure modes of AI-generated architecture.

Position: managing-product (PRD.md) → architecting-software (ARCHITECTURE.md + ADRs) → decomposing-work (ROADMAP.md).

Inputs: a confirmed PRD.md; team size and composition (if absent and not inferable, flag for human input before Step 3 — it is an architectural driver); technology constraints from the PRD; existing systems to integrate with, or "greenfield".

Outputs: ARCHITECTURE.md in the project root (codemap-centric structure per references/architecture-template.md); when complexity warrants, one ADR per significant decision in docs/decisions/NNNN-title.md (MADR minimal format per references/adr-template.md).

Not covered: requirements gathering (managing-product), task decomposition (downstream), code generation, CI/CD design, detailed API specification.

Scale-Adaptive Depth

Same process at every tier; only output depth differs. Calibrate to the project — do not produce a 200-line architecture document for a 3-file bug fix. When in doubt, start light and add detail only where it prevents downstream ambiguity.

Tier ARCHITECTURE.md depth ADRs
Quick 10-20 lines. Overview + key decisions only. Skip codemap if the project is navigable directly. None
Standard Codemap + key decisions. Component boundaries and primary patterns. Only for genuinely significant decisions
Thorough Full template — overview, codemap, cross-cutting concerns, invariants, key decisions, dependencies, open questions One per significant decision

Workflow

Step 1: Extract Requirements into Three Buckets

Sort every PRD requirement — select no patterns yet:

  • Functional — what the system must do. Drives component responsibilities; rarely determines structure alone.
  • Quality attributes — how well it must perform. Look in success criteria, constraints, acceptance criteria, performance/security statements. Translate vague statements: "fast" → "P95 under X ms for the [action] workflow"; "secure" → what is protected, from whom, under what threat model; "scales" → what load, over what timeframe.
  • Constraints — budget, timeline, team skills, technology mandates, regulatory requirements, existing systems.

Read the full file on GitHub · 206 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 9d ago First seen · 206 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A e190ddcd606c

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architecting-software is a skill published in the GitHub repository isvlasov/rageatc-oss (9 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 3,106 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 2026-08-31.