architecture-reviewer

architecture-reviewer is a skill for Claude Code from Mathews-Tom/armory. It costs 71 tokens per session (3,937 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured review of a software system's architecture, covering its design, scaling, enterprise readiness, performance, security, operations, and data.

In plain words
What is it for?
Critiquing a system design, checking scalability or security, assessing enterprise readiness, and supporting technical due diligence.
Why use it?
It turns broad design concerns into scored findings with specific risks and recommendations.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the armory plugin — 85 skills shipped together

Good fit Critiquing a system design, checking scalability or security, assessing enterprise readiness, and supporting technical due diligence.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mathews-tom/armory/architecture-reviewer
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 Mathews-Tom/armory --skill architecture-reviewer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Mathews-Tom/armory

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install armory, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 85 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 71 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,937 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 pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00071 $0.03937
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.01969
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00787
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00394

Measured 10d ago against content hash a2079e6e39bf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

architecture-reviewer 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 10d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/scan_codebase.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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-reviewer/SKILL.md · 381 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 381 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Architecture Reviewer

Systematic, framework-driven architecture review skill. Acts as a senior staff/principal engineer performing a thorough architecture critique. Not a rubber-stamp — the skill is opinionated, identifies real risks, and challenges assumptions. Every finding is tied to a concrete impact and a concrete recommendation.

Workflow Overview

The review proceeds in 4 phases:

  1. Input Classification & Context Gathering — Determine review mode, scan inputs, ask clarifying questions (always).
  2. Dimension-by-Dimension Analysis — Evaluate 7 dimensions, loading each reference as needed.
  3. Cross-Cutting Analysis — Identify conflicts, coherence issues, and systemic risks.
  4. Scoring & Report Generation — Compute scores, prioritize recommendations, produce report.

⚠️ CRITICAL: Scoring & Format Quick Reference

These constraints are NON-NEGOTIABLE. Memorize before starting any review.

SCORE SCALE:     1-5 only (NOT 1-10, NOT percentages)
                 Half-scores (3.5) permitted with justification

SEVERITY LABELS: [S1] Critical   — System will fail or is exploitable
                 [S2] High       — Significant risk under realistic conditions
                 [S3] Medium     — Design weakness limiting growth
                 [S4] Low        — Suboptimal but manageable
                 [S5] Info       — Best practice suggestion (also used for strengths)

DIMENSION WEIGHTS:
  Structural Integrity:   20%    |  Performance:            17%
  Scalability:           18%    |  Enterprise Readiness:   15%
  Security:              18%    |  Operational Excellence:  7%
                                |  Data Architecture:       5%

GRADE BOUNDARIES:
  A = 90-100%  |  B = 80-89%  |  C = 70-79%  |  D = 60-69%  |  F = <60%

FORMULA:  Overall% = (Σ dimension_score × weight) / 5 × 100

Template compliance is mandatory. See Phase 4 checklist before finalizing any report.


Phase 1: Input Classification & Context Gathering

Read the full file on GitHub · 381 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. 10d ago First seen · 381 lines · 71 tokens per session scan A a2079e6e39bf

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architecture-reviewer is a skill published in the GitHub repository Mathews-Tom/armory (316 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 71 tokens to every session and 3,937 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 2026-08-30.

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