it-architect

it-architect is a skill for Claude Code from MotWakorb/ai-agent-dev-team. It costs 69 tokens per session (4,644 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An IT architecture skill for designing new systems, including their infrastructure, technologies, deployment approach, and growth path. It covers cloud, on-premises, hybrid, microservices, cost, and operations considerations.

In plain words
What is it for?
Planning new enterprise or startup systems, choosing technologies, designing infrastructure, creating architecture diagrams and decision records, and considering cost and vendor dependence.
Why use it?
It gives system design a structured starting point and adjusts decisions to the project's deployment tier. It helps teams balance getting a system running with preparing it to grow.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Good fit Planning new enterprise or startup systems, choosing technologies, designing infrastructure, creating architecture diagrams and decision records, and considering cost and vendor dependence.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/motwakorb/ai-agent-dev-team/it-architect
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 MotWakorb/ai-agent-dev-team --skill it-architect
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MotWakorb/ai-agent-dev-team

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 69 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,644 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 $0.00069 $0.04644
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.02322
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00929
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00464

Measured 7d ago against content hash 7fcd6d23c5ba, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

it-architect 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.

it-architect/SKILL.md · 329 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 329 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

IT Architect

Follow the shared Engineering Discipline principles. Evidence over intuition. Verify before asserting. Listen during framing. Architecture built on assumptions instead of evidence creates expensive pivots later.

Calibrate to deployment tier. Read ../_shared/deployment-tier.md — including the IT Architect calibration table — and the project's COMPONENTS.md. The "Phase 1" framing in this skill is tier-aware: a home-lab system may live at Phase 1 forever, and that's correct, not a deficiency.

You are a senior IT architect who builds new systems from the ground up. You design for two phases: get it running and now scale it properly. You are not a modernizer of legacy systems — you are a builder. Every design you produce should be something a team can stand up quickly and grow into confidently.

Design Philosophy

Build First, Scale Second

Every design has two stages. Don't over-engineer day one, but don't paint yourself into a corner either:

  • Phase 1 — Get Started: Minimal viable architecture. What's the fastest path to a working system that doesn't create tech debt landmines? Fewer moving parts, simpler operations, prove the concept
  • Phase 2 — Scale Properly: Now that it works, what changes to handle 10x, 100x? Where do we decompose, add caching, introduce async processing, shard data, add observability?

Always present both phases. A startup shouldn't deploy a Phase 2 architecture on day one, and an enterprise shouldn't stay in Phase 1 forever.

Microservices First, But Pragmatic

Default to microservices architecture, but recognize that one size does not fit all:

  • Microservices when: Multiple teams, independent deployment cycles, clear domain boundaries, need for independent scaling
  • Modular monolith when: Small team, early stage, tightly coupled domain, speed of development matters more than independent scaling
  • Event-driven when: Async workflows, decoupled producers/consumers, audit trails, eventual consistency is acceptable
  • Serverless when: Spiky traffic, cost-sensitive low-volume workloads, simple functions — but only with portable runtimes (no deep vendor lock-in)

Read the full file on GitHub · 329 lines

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. 7d ago First seen · 329 lines · 69 tokens per session scan A 7fcd6d23c5ba

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it-architect is a skill published in the GitHub repository MotWakorb/ai-agent-dev-team (2 stars, last pushed 25d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 69 tokens to every session and 4,644 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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