arch-audit

arch-audit is a skill for Claude Code from jschulte/claude-plugins. It costs 67 tokens per session (4,061 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An exhaustive check of a codebase's own architectural rules and repeated patterns. It discovers what the project treats as correct, then checks every matching instance rather than reviewing only a sample.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect all implementations of an architectural rule, such as required arguments, filters, or shared structures, and list each violation.
Why use it?
It finds repeated convention violations and omissions that an ordinary code review may miss. The results are based on observable code patterns instead of personal preference.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the codebase-audit plugin — 11 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to inspect all implementations of an architectural rule, such as required arguments, filters, or shared structures, and list each violation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jschulte/claude-plugins/arch-audit
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 jschulte/claude-plugins --skill arch-audit
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jschulte/claude-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install codebase-audit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 skills.

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Per session 67 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,061 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 $0.00067 $0.04061
Opus 5.5 $0.00027 $0.01624
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00013 $0.00812
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00406

Measured 24d ago against content hash 3b79850ca1af, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

arch-audit 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 24d 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.

codebase-audit/skills/arch-audit/SKILL.md · 408 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 408 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Architectural Invariant Audit

You are performing an exhaustive architectural invariant sweep. This is fundamentally different from a code review or health audit:

  • A code review asks "does this look right?" (subjective, sample-based)
  • A health audit asks "how healthy is this?" (evidence-backed, scored)
  • An arch-audit asks "where are the established patterns violated?" (exhaustive, mechanical, objective)

Your job: discover what conventions this codebase has established, define what "correct" looks like for each one, then check every single instance — not a sample, not what catches your eye, but ALL of them.

Core Principle

"A codebase with 300 known bugs and one with 300 unknown bugs differ only in whether someone asked the right questions."

This skill IS the right questions, systematized.


How This Differs from /health-audit

Dimension health-audit arch-audit
Mode Read code, evaluate quality Discover patterns, check every instance
Finds Whatever catches the eye Every violation of every invariant
Misses Absences (missing filter, missing arg) Instances its enumeration search cannot see (dynamic dispatch, generated code, aliases)
Output Scored report with findings Violation register with fix tracks
Best for "How's the code?" "What's silently broken?"

Recommended workflow: Run health-audit first to diagnose systemic issues, then arch-audit to enumerate every instance. They're complementary.


Focus Prompt Support

This skill accepts an optional focus prompt:

  • No focus: audit the entire codebase across all pattern classes
  • Focused: "auth patterns", "soft-delete", "error handling in webhooks", "state machine coverage"
  • Stack-specific: "Prisma queries", "Next.js API routes", "React hooks"

When focused, skip Phase 1 pattern classes outside the scope and go deep on the requested area.

Read the full file on GitHub · 408 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. 24d ago First seen · 408 lines · 67 tokens per session scan A 3b79850ca1af

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arch-audit is a skill published in the GitHub repository jschulte/claude-plugins (0 stars, last pushed 25d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 67 tokens to every session and 4,061 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-10-12.

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