approve-architecture

approve-architecture is a skill for Claude Code from me2resh/apexyard. It costs 35 tokens per session (2,719 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command that records an architect’s approval for a specific pull request, or PR, which is a proposed code change for review. It writes an approval marker containing the current code revision so the architecture merge gate can allow the PR through.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for recording explicit approval of a PR that changes a technical design, migration plan, feature specification, or product requirements document.
Why use it?
It prevents design-related PRs from being merged without the required architecture review approval.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions Claude Code.

Good fit It is for recording explicit approval of a PR that changes a technical design, migration plan, feature specification, or product requirements document.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/me2resh/apexyard/approve-architecture
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 me2resh/apexyard --skill approve-architecture
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/me2resh/apexyard

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 35 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,719 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 $0.00035 $0.02719
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.01359
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00544
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00272

Measured 10d ago against content hash ba4cba461677, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

approve-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 10d 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.

.claude/skills/approve-architecture/SKILL.md · 190 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 190 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/approve-architecture — Record Per-PR Design-Review Approval

Writes .claude/session/reviews/<owner>__<repo>__<pr>-architecture.approved (repo-qualified path, see AgDR-0060) with the current HEAD SHA so the require-architecture-review.sh merge-gate hook will let a design-artifact PR through. Without this marker, the hook blocks merges on any PR that touches a technical design, a migration AgDR, or a feature spec / PRD.

This skill is the architecture-review analog of /approve-design (UI gate) and /approve-merge (CEO gate). Same pattern, different gate. The reviewer is Tariq (the Solution Architect).

The one rule you must not break

INVOKE THIS SKILL ONLY ON EXPLICIT, PER-PR, DESIGN-REVIEW APPROVAL.

Normally Tariq writes the marker himself on an APPROVED verdict (see .claude/agents/solution-architect.md). This skill is the operator path to record the same marker — for when a human architect reviewed the design, or when you need to re-record after a rebase.

Valid invocation triggers:

  • "design review passed" / "architecture approved" / "the design in #42 is sound" — if and only if the surrounding context clearly names a specific PR and the design has actually been reviewed against the architecture lens.
  • "PR #42 architecture approved" — names the PR explicitly.
  • A reply to your own "PR #42's design — architecture review approved?" message that consists of any affirmative token.

Invalid triggers (do NOT run this skill):

  • "looks good" / "nice design" — when said about a whiteboard sketch, a Figma, or a verbal proposal that is not a specific PR's design artifact. Architecture review means reviewing the committed design doc / AgDR / spec in a PR, not a sketch.
  • "the approach is fine" — when said in a planning context ("let's go with this approach") rather than a review context ("I've reviewed the design doc against the lens and it's sound").
  • "go" / "continue" / "ship it" — umbrella responses to a multi-step plan. Same rule as /approve-merge.
  • Your own inference that "the design is probably fine." NO. Stop and ask.

Read the full file on GitHub · 190 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 · 190 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A ba4cba461677

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approve-architecture is a skill published in the GitHub repository me2resh/apexyard (498 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 2,719 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 2026-08-30.