architecture-design

architecture-design is a skill for Codex from JakubMikolajek/codex-skills-collection. It costs 30 tokens per session (716 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for designing the overall structure of a software solution before implementation. It reviews the goal and codebase, resolves important ambiguities, and produces an implementation plan based on software design practices.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to analyse a codebase, clarify open questions, design a solution, and document the plan for building it. It is intended for tasks that need architectural decisions rather than a small code edit.
Why use it?
It helps teams understand the current system and choose a coherent design before changing code. This reduces the risk of solving the wrong problem or creating a design that does not fit the existing project.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit Use it to analyse a codebase, clarify open questions, design a solution, and document the plan for building it. It is intended for tasks that need architectural decisions rather than a small code edit.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jakubmikolajek/codex-skills-collection/architecture-design
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add JakubMikolajek/codex-skills-collection --skill architecture-design
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/JakubMikolajek/codex-skills-collection

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Per session 30 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 716 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

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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00030 $0.00716
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00358
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00143
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00072

Measured 11d ago against content hash bad34cbb53bf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

architecture-design 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 11d ago.

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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/architecture-design/SKILL.md · 81 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 81 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Architecture Design

This skill helps you design the architecture that follows best practices and solves the actual business goal.

Architecture Design Process

Use the checklist below and track your progress:

Analysis progress:
- [ ] Step 1: Understand the goal of the task
- [ ] Step 2: Analyse the current codebase
- [ ] Step 3: Ask questions about ambiguous parts
- [ ] Step 4: Design a solution
- [ ] Step 5: Create an implementation plan document

Step 1: Understand the goal of the task Thoroughly process the conversation history and task *.research.md file to fully understand the business goal of the task.

Step 2: Analyse the current codebase Perform a current codebase analysis to get a full picture of a current system in a context of the task. Make sure to understand the project and domain best practices.

Step 3: Ask questions about ambiguous parts After getting a full picture of the codebase and the task, ask any remaining questions. Don't continue until you get all of the answers.

Step 4: Design a solution Based on your findings design a solution architecture.

Follow the best security and software design patterns.

Your goal is to design a solution that is not overengineered and easy to comprehend by developers, that is at the same time scalable, secure and easy to maintain.

The example patterns you should check (but you are not limited to only use those):

  • Dont repeat yourself
  • Keep It Simple Stupid
  • Domain Driven Design
  • Test Driven Design
  • Modular Architecture / Hexagonal Architecture / Layered Architecture
  • Queue / Messaging systems
  • Single Responsibility
  • CQRS

Make sure to follow the best UI/UX patterns:

  • Atomic Design
  • Accessibility patterns (WCAG)

Make sure to follow security best practices like OWASP TOP10

The design has to meet quality assurance criteria, meaning it has to be fully tested using combination of e2e, unit and integration tests.

Don't duplicate any work.

Make sure to use implementation-gap-analysis skill to verify what was already implemented from your plan and what should be added. Make sure to include the result in final plan.

Read the full file on GitHub · 81 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. 11d ago First seen · 81 lines · 30 tokens per session scan A bad34cbb53bf

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architecture-design is a skill published in the GitHub repository JakubMikolajek/codex-skills-collection (5 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 716 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.

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