arch-index-gate

arch-index-gate is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from mathiasbourgoin/roster. It costs 31 tokens per session (508 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command-line gate that checks declared architecture rules against a SQLite index of the codebase. It reports whether the rules pass, fail, are malformed, or cannot be checked because required data or tools are missing.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to verify reachability rules in an architecture index during roster quality checks. It accepts SQL queries and checks whether they return forbidden rows or too many rows.
Why use it?
It catches architecture relationships that violate stated rules without requiring a person to inspect the whole codebase. It also makes the result predictable for automated checks.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Good fit Use it to verify reachability rules in an architecture index during roster quality checks. It accepts SQL queries and checks whether they return forbidden rows or too many rows.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mathiasbourgoin/roster/arch-index-gate
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 mathiasbourgoin/roster --skill arch-index-gate
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mathiasbourgoin/roster

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 31 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 508 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 $0.00031 $0.00508
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00254
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00102
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00051

Measured today against content hash ef062ea4d872, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

arch-index-gate 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 today.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (gate.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.

extensions/arch-index/skills/arch-index-gate/SKILL.md · 47 lines

What it actually says

arch-index-gate

Deterministic invariant gate for roster-qa (GateExitContract, exits 0/1/2/3). The consumer (scripts/code-intel-resolve.js gate) extracts the fenced code-intel block from kb/properties.md and passes its path as $1; this skill's gate.sh evaluates each declared invariant against the SQLite index at .arch-index/index.db (built by arch-index-init — never rebuilt here).

Check contract (pack-owned check semantics)

Only "type": "reachability" invariants are supported — any other type is a malformed declaration for this pack (exit 2, naming the unsupported type). Each check object is:

{"query": "<SQL against the index>", "expect": "none"}
{"query": "<SQL against the index>", "max": 5}

Row-count semantics: expect: "none" → any returned row is a violation; max: N → more than N rows is a violation. Queries run via arch-index query --json when the binary is available, else directly via sqlite3 .arch-index/index.db.

Steps

  1. roster-qa invokes bash gate.sh <invariants.jsonl> from the project root.
  2. Degradation checks first (exit 3, verdict-neutral): index DB absent; both arch-index and sqlite3 missing; OCaml project (dune-project present) with no *.cmt artifacts under _build/ ("cmt-artifacts-missing (run dune build)").
  3. Declarations parse (exit 2 on malformed JSON or unsupported check type — defense in depth; the resolver pre-validates the envelope).
  4. Each invariant's query runs; violations print the invariant id plus the offending rows, and the gate exits 1 after evaluating all invariants.
  5. All checks pass → one PASS <id> line per invariant, exit 0 (zero declared invariants also exits 0).
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. today First seen · 47 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A ef062ea4d872

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arch-index-gate is a skill published in the GitHub repository mathiasbourgoin/roster (2 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 508 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-12.

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