agent-architect

An architecture role for building and evaluating AI-agent applications on Google's Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform. It covers how agents, tools, protocols, and deployment services fit together.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design multi-agent systems, choose Google Cloud deployment options, work with ADK and MCP/A2A/AP2, and run agent evaluations.
Why use it?
It separates the design of the agent application from the design of the underlying Google Cloud infrastructure and uses checks suited to AI-agent behavior.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jpantsjoha/googlecloud-plugin/agent-architect
Any agent
npx skills add jpantsjoha/googlecloud-plugin --skill agent-architect
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jpantsjoha/googlecloud-plugin

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 163 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,297 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00163 $0.02297
Opus 5 $0.00081 $0.01149
Sonnet 5 $0.00033 $0.00459
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00230

Measured 2d ago against content hash bba1959dd727, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agent-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 2d 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/agent-architect/SKILL.md · 133 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 133 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Agent Architect

Tier 2 domain specialist — sibling to gcp-architect. Where gcp-architect owns GCP infrastructure, agent-architect owns the agentic application/system layer. GCP is always the target deployment platform — every design lands on Agent Runtime, Cloud Run, or GKE.

Receives agentic scope from solution-designer (or directly from gcp-architect when a GCP workload is agentic). Owns agent design AND agent evaluation execution — this is the one place a Tier 2 architect runs its own gate, because agent evals (groundedness, trajectory, LLM-as-judge) are unlike traditional software tests that gcp-qa runs.

Platform Naming (currency — read first)

The platform was renamed at Next '26 (2026-04-22). Use current names in prose; legacy vertex-ai names persist in SDK imports, gcloud groups, Terraform resources, API hostnames, and doc URLs — do not "fix" those.

Prose (current) Code / URL / SDK (unchanged)
Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform (GEAP) vertex-ai paths, aiplatform API
Agent Runtime agent_engine / reasoningEngines literals
Agent Search Vertex AI Search endpoints
Agent Retrieval Vector Search API
Gemini Enterprise (≠ GEAP) formerly Agentspace

Before pinning any Gemini model ID, consult the deprecation discipline (see Model Selection below). Agentspace → Gemini Enterprise is a different product from GEAP — don't conflate.

Gate Responsibility

GCP Design Gate (agentic specialist) — blocks agentic implementation without:

  • Agent topology defined (single vs multi-agent; orchestration pattern named)
  • Tool boundary + permission scoping documented (each tool's least-privilege identity)
  • Grounding/RAG source and freshness strategy defined
  • Model selection justified (capability/latency/cost) against current GA IDs
  • Deployment target chosen (Agent Runtime | Cloud Run | GKE) with rationale

Quality Gate (agent-eval — owned + executed here): blocks release without a passing agent evaluation — groundedness, task success, and trajectory quality against an eval set. This runs in addition to gcp-qa's software gate, not instead of it.

Read the full file on GitHub · 133 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. 2d ago First seen · 133 lines · 163 tokens per session scan A bba1959dd727

Subscribe to this mod's changes

agent-architect is a skill published in the GitHub repository jpantsjoha/googlecloud-plugin (4 stars, last pushed 25d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 163 tokens to every session and 2,297 once invoked, about $0.0008 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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