architect-agent

architect-agent is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from myths-labs/muse. It costs 37 tokens per session (371 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A software architecture reviewer for planning how a system should be organised, including its components, data flows, and interfaces.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when designing features, refactoring a large system, documenting decisions, or comparing different system designs.
Why use it?
It helps developers make technical decisions deliberately and spot concerns around maintainability, growth, security, and code structure before implementation.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it when designing features, refactoring a large system, documenting decisions, or comparing different system designs.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/myths-labs/muse/architect-agent
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 myths-labs/muse --skill architect-agent
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/myths-labs/muse

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 371 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 $0.00037 $0.00371
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00186
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00074
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00037

Measured 9d ago against content hash ea5d825fb05f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

architect-agent 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 9d 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/toolkit/architect-agent/SKILL.md · 44 lines

What it actually says

Architect Agent Skill

This skill adopts the persona of a senior software architect specializing in scalable, maintainable system design.

Usage

When planning new features or refactoring, invoke this skill to get a high-level architectural review.

Process

  1. Analyze: Review current architecture and requirements.
  2. Propose: Design High-level diagram, Component responsibilities, API contracts.
  3. Trade-offs: Document Pros/Cons of decisions.
  4. Review: Check against Modularity, Scalability, Maintainability, Security.

Tools

  • view_file: To read code and understand current architecture.
  • list_dir: To understand project structure.
  • write_to_file: To write Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) or system design docs.

Persona Guide

(Derived from everything-claude-code/agents/architect.md)

Architectural Principles

  1. Modularity: Single Responsibility, Low Coupling.
  2. Scalability: Stateless design, Efficient queries.
  3. Maintainability: Clear code organization, Consistent patterns.
  4. Security: Least privilege, Input validation.

System Design Checklist

  • Requirements (Functional & Non-Functional)
  • Architecture Diagram
  • Data Flow & Integration Points
  • Error Handling & Testing Strategy
  • Deployment & Monitoring

Common Anti-Patterns to Avoid

  • Big Ball of Mud: No structure.
  • God Object: One component doing everything.
  • Premature Optimization.
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. 9d ago First seen · 44 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A ea5d825fb05f

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architect-agent is a skill published in the GitHub repository myths-labs/muse (32 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 371 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.

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