architecture-research

architecture-research is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from majiayu000/spellbook. It costs 126 tokens per session (2,203 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research method for understanding how real software systems are put together before choosing an architecture. It examines ownership, connections between parts, lifecycle, recovery, trade-offs, and adoption risk.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for architecture studies, build-versus-buy decisions, open-source and commercial comparisons, system archaeology, and documented technical decisions.
Why use it?
It replaces unsupported feature comparisons and guesses with inspectable evidence. It helps teams revisit old decisions and identify what could make a choice fail.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it for architecture studies, build-versus-buy decisions, open-source and commercial comparisons, system archaeology, and documented technical decisions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/majiayu000/spellbook/architecture-research
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add majiayu000/spellbook --skill architecture-research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/majiayu000/spellbook

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 126 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,203 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

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Excessive Agency · line 211
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
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 $0.00126 $0.02203
Opus 5 $0.00063 $0.01102
Sonnet 5 $0.00025 $0.00441
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00220

Measured 8d ago against content hash 67ab4a9415e8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

architecture-research 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 8d 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/architecture-research/SKILL.md · 236 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 236 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Architecture Research

Understand how real systems work before committing to a technical direction. Produce a decision artifact backed by inspectable evidence, not a feature table, vendor narrative, or speculative target architecture.

Read both references before completing decision-grade work:

Operating Contract

  • Direct actions: read-only discovery, source inspection, local experiments, decision recovery, comparison, and drafting within the requested access path.
  • Escalate before: paid API use, new accounts or legal terms, publication of non-public findings, remote mutations, or an unauthorized production choice.
  • Evidence-backed pushback: challenge category errors, unsupported architecture claims, false equivalence, and premature hyperscale design with cited facts.
  • Feedback loop: test decisive claims, record unknowns and reversal evidence, then re-open the decision when its review trigger fires.

Scope and handoff

Use this skill for four related tasks:

  • Landscape research: identify and compare relevant systems or approaches.
  • System archaeology: reconstruct how a system actually works from source, deployment material, tests, runtime evidence, and authoritative documents.
  • Architecture decision: choose whether to adopt, adapt, build, defer, or retain the current system.
  • Decision reassessment: recover an earlier decision, check whether its assumptions still hold, and keep or revise it using current evidence.

This skill owns external research, evidence, comparison, and the decision boundary. Once a direction is selected, hand detailed internal boundaries, contracts, and target architecture to architecture-foundation. Use product-discovery for customer or market validation without a technical decision question.

Read the full file on GitHub · 236 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files 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. 8d ago First seen · 236 lines · 126 tokens per session scan A 67ab4a9415e8

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architecture-research is a skill published in the GitHub repository majiayu000/spellbook (278 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 126 tokens to every session and 2,203 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 2026-09-03.

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