architect

architect is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from LegalQuants/LQ-Architect. It costs 120 tokens per session (825 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured method for building or redesigning substantial software, tools, pipelines, documents, integrations, or skills through requirements, design, and verification checkpoints.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define what a project must and must not do, design its solution, create a regression test set, and verify the finished work.
Why use it?
It records decisions and requires evidence that the result works, helping prevent important requirements or tests from being skipped.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to define what a project must and must not do, design its solution, create a regression test set, and verify the finished work.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/legalquants/lq-architect/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 LegalQuants/LQ-Architect --skill architect
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/LegalQuants/LQ-Architect

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 120 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 825 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 $0.00120 $0.00825
Opus 5 $0.00060 $0.00413
Sonnet 5 $0.00024 $0.00165
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00082

Measured 12d ago against content hash 22f790a3b2bb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 12d 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.

claude-code/skills/architect/SKILL.md · 48 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 48 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/architect — build with the sponsor hands-on, leave a net behind

The full discipline lives in method/ARCHITECT-METHOD.md — this file is the mechanics.

The machinery

Mechanism Where What it enforces
Sign-off records <project>/signoffs/gate{1,2,3}.md, written/committed by the SPONSOR gate order; the Stop hook blocks a netted project lacking gate2 (or the waiver)
The waiver signoffs/waiver.md where the sponsor writes "vibe coded bullshit" their written quick-and-dirty consent; tag the build log
The net tests/NET.json + tests/run_all.py (scaffold: python3 net/net_scaffold.py <project>) born at Gate 2; the Stop hook blocks turn-end while stale; fingerprint = source + declared external prompts/skills/configs + model id
The ratchet baseline keys in NET.json any score below baseline fails; only tests/bless.py --yes from the sponsor's terminal moves them
Coverage nudge the Stop hook, once per session code directories with no net get named, with a recommendation

The flow

  1. Gate 1 — requirements. Interview the sponsor (four categories: must do / must not do / must cost / must prove; experience words are signals to dig, not requirements). Deliver the translation table + feasibility verdict. Sponsor writes signoffs/gate1.md. No design before it.
  2. Eval spike. Tests and eval assets only. Scaffold the net; co-author the golden dataset (the sponsor's edge cases, their thresholds, set before the build); declare the project's prompt/skill/config dependencies in NET.json fingerprint.external so later edits to them re-arm the net.
  3. Gate 2 — design + checks. Decomposition, pattern + rejected alternative, tradeoff choices (gain / give up / reversal cost — the sponsor picks), SLA traced to sources, phase plan. Freeze BUILD_PLAN.md (template in method/). Sponsor writes signoffs/gate2.md. No production code before it.
  4. Build. Phase by phase, each ending tests/run_all.py green + a dated build-log entry. Never edit thresholds/baselines; never re-decide a Gate-2 tradeoff — escalate. Any prompt change updates the eval set in the same change.
  5. Gate 3 — verification. Full net with --llm; results presented honestly; governance table + handoff package (decision log, rejected alternatives, runbook). Sponsor writes signoffs/gate3.md. Until then: "built, awaiting your verification pass" — never "done".

Read the full file on GitHub · 48 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. 12d ago First seen · 48 lines · 120 tokens per session scan A 22f790a3b2bb

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architect is a skill published in the GitHub repository LegalQuants/LQ-Architect (12 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 120 tokens to every session and 825 once invoked, about $0.0006 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 2026-08-30.

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