software-architecture-review

software-architecture-review is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from liza-mas/liza. It costs 9 tokens per session (6,940 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A structured process for evaluating how a software system is organized and how its design choices affect future changes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for full architecture reviews, implementation planning, targeted review notes, follow-up analysis, and adversarial examination of a design.
Why use it?
It helps identify architectural trade-offs and risks before implementation or during a code review.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it for full architecture reviews, implementation planning, targeted review notes, follow-up analysis, and adversarial examination of a design.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/liza-mas/liza/software-architecture-review
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 liza-mas/liza --skill software-architecture-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/liza-mas/liza

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 9 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 6,940 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

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How audits are shown
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 $0.00009 $0.06940
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.03470
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.01388
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00694

Measured 11d ago against content hash 0ef63f1b1d08, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

software-architecture-review 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.

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/software-architecture-review/SKILL.md · 674 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 674 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

REVIEW_FILE = specs/architecture/architecture-review.md

Recommended Tools: Make sure you've read ~/§BRAND_GLOBAL_DIRNAME§/AGENT_TOOLS.md list_directory_tree and codebase_search (fast and token-efficient semantic search) may be specifically useful.

Architecture is about trade-offs, not truths. Raise questions, suggest directions, avoid astronautics.

Invoked for: implementation planning, code review (P3 supplement), or explicit architectural evaluation.


Process

Discovery → Analysis → Recommendations

Templates anchor cognition. Complete Phase 1 before Phase 2. The skill is a lens to apply to what you found, not slots to fill.


Modes

Mode When Scope
Full Review Explicit architectural evaluation, major implementation planning All phases, all sections
Code Review Supplement Adding P3 architectural notes to a code review Targeted analysis of changes only
Enrichment Second+ pass to improve coverage of existing review Independent analysis → merge → verify → update
Enrichment (no lens) Avoid tunnel vision from lens focus Same as Enrichment, but unconstrained exploration
Adversarial Break out of convergent attention patterns Randomized exploration → gap hunting → forced comparisons
Adversarial (targeted) Suspect gaps in specific area Specific file/component as entry, rest of Adversarial process
Adversarial (entry point N) Force specific exploration pattern Fixed entry point from table, rest of Adversarial process

Phase applicability:

Mode Phase 1 (Discovery) Phase 2 (Analysis) Phase 3 (Recs) Output
Full Review ✓ Complete ✓ Complete ✓ Complete New REVIEW_FILE
Code Review Supplement — Skip Targeted (relevant questions only) — Skip Inline notes in code review
Enrichment ✓ Fresh (independent) Update (add to existing) Update (add to existing) Revised review file
Adversarial Own process (randomized) Update (add to existing) Update (add to existing) Revised review file

Read the full file on GitHub · 674 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. 11d ago First seen · 674 lines · 9 tokens per session scan A 0ef63f1b1d08

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software-architecture-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository liza-mas/liza (384 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 9 tokens to every session and 6,940 once invoked, about $0.0000 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.