architecture-review-checklist

architecture-review-checklist is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from MatrixFounder/Agentic-development. It costs 15 tokens per session (1,361 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A checklist for reviewing a system's architecture and data model, including requirements, database structure, security, scaling, and reliability.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check entities and relationships, data types, indexes, database migrations, authentication, secrets, component boundaries, and architecture documentation.
Why use it?
It exposes missing use cases, data rules, migrations, security protections, or unnecessary complexity before implementation is accepted.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to check entities and relationships, data types, indexes, database migrations…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/matrixfounder/agentic-development/architecture-review-checklist
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 MatrixFounder/Agentic-development --skill architecture-review-checklist
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MatrixFounder/Agentic-development

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 15 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,361 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 $0.00015 $0.01361
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00681
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00272
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00136

Measured 7d ago against content hash 90232b739970, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

architecture-review-checklist 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 7d 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.

.agent/skills/architecture-review-checklist/SKILL.md · 95 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 95 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Architecture Review Checklist

1. TASK Compliance

  • Coverage: All Use Cases mapped to components?
  • Constraints: All non-functional requirements met?

2. Data Model (CRITICAL)

  • Completeness: All entities, attributes, relationships defined?
  • Types: Correct data types chosen? (e.g., TIMESTAMP vs VARCHAR)
  • Indexes: Defined for frequent queries?
  • Migrations: Plan for existing data exists?
  • Business Rules: Constraints enforced (UNIQUE, NOT NULL)?

3. System Design

  • Simplicity: Least moving parts? (No overengineering).
  • Style: Pattern matches problem (Monolith vs Microservices).
  • Boundaries: Clear segregation of duties (SRP).
  • Document Size: docs/ARCHITECTURE.md is ≤1500 lines, OR is an INDEX (~≤200 lines) with section chunks in docs/architectures/ and all links resolving.
  • No Per-Task Drift: ARCHITECTURE.md is a single living document — no architecture-NNN-*.md snapshots, nothing moved into docs/archives/.

4. Security

  • Auth: Authentication & Authorization defined?
  • Protection: OWASP Top 10 considered?
  • Secrets: No hardcoded keys?

5. Scalability & Reliability

  • Scaling: Horizontal/Vertical strategy?
  • Faults: Error handling, retries, backups?

6. Register (documentation-standards §5.5)

  • Scan attached: artifact-formalizer/scripts/scan_register.py docs/ARCHITECTURE.md --sections was run; DETECTORS shows none dead. In Index Mode append the chunk paths (see the Script Contract).
  • Warns resolved: zero warn, or each survivor carries a written reason.
  • Terms declared, not assumed: every noun this document introduces as a term is defined here. ARCHITECTURE.md is what --terms reads downstream, so a metaphor introduced here legitimises itself in every task file that follows.

7. References (documentation-standards §4.1)

  • Resolver run: python3 .agent/skills/documentation-standards/scripts/check_positional_refs.py --all docs/ARCHITECTURE.md docs/architectures/ was run, and its path:line coverage line is quoted in the review — not asserted to have been produced. A checklist cannot prove a command ran; pasted output can.
  • Verdicts resolved: zero REFERENT_ABSENT and REFERENT_AMBIGUOUS, or each survivor carries a written reason. REFERENT_MOVED is repaired by re-running with --fix, never argued about — the number is derived from the referent, so no judgement is involved.
  • A coordinate carrying no referent is not a defect. It is reported as not examined and is NOT required to gain one. This review never demands a migration: most corpora carry no referents at all, and adoption is the project's decision, not the reviewer's.
  • Cross-repository coordinates pinned: a path outside this repository resolves to nothing and reports UNRESOLVABLE. It carries @<rev> naming the revision measured, which is the form §4.1 already licenses for a claim about another state.

Read the full file on GitHub · 95 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. 7d ago First seen · 95 lines · 15 tokens per session scan A 90232b739970

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architecture-review-checklist is a skill published in the GitHub repository MatrixFounder/Agentic-development (5 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 15 tokens to every session and 1,361 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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