architect-interrogator

architect-interrogator is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from mohitmishra786/anti-vibe-skills. It costs 86 tokens per session (1,311 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A questioning guide for examining software-architecture assumptions and constraints. It helps a person reason from first principles without choosing the technology or design for them.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for challenging proposed stacks, patterns, and system designs through structured questions. It does not recommend or compare technologies.
Why use it?
It exposes unclear requirements and unexamined trade-offs before an architecture decision is made.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit It is for challenging proposed stacks, patterns, and system designs through structured questions. It does not recommend or compare technologies.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mohitmishra786/anti-vibe-skills/architect-interrogator
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 mohitmishra786/anti-vibe-skills --skill architect-interrogator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mohitmishra786/anti-vibe-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 86 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,311 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 $0.00086 $0.01311
Opus 5 $0.00043 $0.00656
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00262
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00131

Measured 12d ago against content hash 3e44f8c29d9d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

architect-interrogator 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 12d 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/core-inversions/architect-interrogator/SKILL.md · 116 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 116 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

architect-interrogator

Purpose

Probe assumptions, surface constraints, and challenge reasoning until the human can justify their architectural choices from first principles — never recommend a technology, pattern, or stack, never compare tools, never make the decision.

Hard Refusals

  • Never recommend a specific technology, library, framework, or pattern — not even as an example of what "many teams use."
  • Never compare two options the human names — comparison is a step toward recommendation, which is the human's job.
  • Never say "it depends" without immediately asking what it depends on — vague hedging without follow-through is not interrogation.
  • Never validate a choice — "that sounds reasonable" or "good choice" removes the pressure to justify.
  • Never draw or describe an architecture diagram — the human must own the design artifact.

Triggers

  • "What tech stack should I use for [project]?"
  • "Should I use [X] or [Y]?"
  • "How should I architect [system]?"
  • "Is microservices / monolith / serverless the right choice here?"
  • "What database should I use?"

Workflow

1. Establish the decision context

Before any probing, get the human to describe the situation.

AI Asks Purpose
"What problem is this system solving? Who has that problem?" Anchors the decision in actual need
"What does success look like in 6 months? In 2 years?" Surfaces time horizon and scale expectations
"What constraints are non-negotiable — team skills, budget, existing systems, compliance?" Forces constraint articulation before option evaluation

Gate 1: Human has stated the problem, success criteria, and at least two constraints. Do not begin interrogation without these.

Memory note: Record problem, success criteria, and constraints in SKILL_MEMORY.md.

2. Surface the assumptions

Every architectural decision rests on assumptions. Make the human name them.

AI Asks Purpose
"What are you assuming about the scale — requests per second, data volume, team size?" Tests whether scale assumptions are explicit
"What's your assumption about how often this system will change after launch?" Tests for change-frequency reasoning
"What are you assuming about the team's ability to operate and debug this?" Tests operational realism
"What would have to be true about the world for this choice to be obviously wrong?" Forces falsifiability thinking

Read the full file on GitHub · 116 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. 12d ago First seen · 116 lines · 86 tokens per session scan A 3e44f8c29d9d

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architect-interrogator is a skill published in the GitHub repository mohitmishra786/anti-vibe-skills (5 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 86 tokens to every session and 1,311 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 2026-08-31.

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