improve-codebase-architecture

A read-only architecture review that looks for tangled dependencies, broken boundaries, repeated logic, and classes or modules doing too many jobs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for architecture reviews, coupling checks, refactoring decisions, and codebase health reports. Any refactoring should first be covered by a test that records the current behavior.
Why use it?
It turns codebase health concerns into documented findings with locations, severity, and recommendations before anyone changes the design.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the devtools plugin — 8 skills shipped together

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/luisfelipemoro/harness-devkit/improve-codebase-architecture
Any agent
npx skills add LuisFelipeMoro/Harness-devkit --skill improve-codebase-architecture
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/LuisFelipeMoro/Harness-devkit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install devtools, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills.

Per session 84 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 489 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 $0.00084 $0.00489
Opus 5 $0.00042 $0.00244
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00098
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00049

Measured 3d ago against content hash 6f898ad29722, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

improve-codebase-architecture 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 3d 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.

plugins/devtools/skills/improve-codebase-architecture/SKILL.md · 44 lines

What it actually says

Report findings only — never fix in this skill. Each finding includes severity, location, and a concrete recommendation.

Refactor guard: this skill only reports. Any refactor that follows must be protected by a characterization test first — pin the current observable behaviour with a passing test (it goes RED the moment the refactor changes behaviour), then refactor under green. Never restructure code that has no test covering it; add the test first.

Phase 1 — Map (1 Explore sub-agent, model: haiku)

Input: Working directory. Optionally: focus area. Output: Raw observations list. Boundary: no analysis, no recommendations.

Dispatch one read-only Explore sub-agent using the call template in references/arch-report-reference.md.

Phase 2 — Score

Input: Phase 1 observations. Output: Findings grouped by severity.

Severity Examples
Critical Domain logic in HTTP/DB layer; circular imports; unhandled errors on mutation path
High 3+ callers duplicating logic; file >500 lines; cross-feature deep imports
Medium File 300–500 lines; inconsistent patterns; magic values
Low Naming inconsistency; minor duplication; dead code

Phase 3 — Report

Write HTML report to /tmp/arch-report-<YYYY-MM-DD>.html. See references/arch-report-reference.md for HTML scaffold. Print: Architecture report: /tmp/arch-report-<date>.html — N critical, N high, N medium, N low findings.

Phase 4 — Grill (optional)

Offer: "Want to stress-test any finding? Type /grill-me with the finding."

Phase 5 — ADR (optional)

For each Critical/High finding the user wants to address: offer docs/adr/ADR-NNN-title.md. See references/arch-report-reference.md for the ADR template.

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. 3d ago First seen · 44 lines · 84 tokens per session scan A 6f898ad29722

Subscribe to this mod's changes

improve-codebase-architecture is a skill published in the GitHub repository LuisFelipeMoro/Harness-devkit (10 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 84 tokens to every session and 489 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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