Well-Architected Pillar Review

Well-Architected Pillar Review is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from niels-emmer/myace. It costs 40 tokens per session (765 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A checklist for reviewing significant infrastructure changes against security, reliability, cost, operations, and performance. Cloud architecture frameworks are guides for designing systems that remain safe, dependable, manageable, and affordable.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before approving new cloud resources or major changes to how a system is accessed, scaled, operated, or billed.
Why use it?
It reduces the chance that a change solves one problem while creating an outage, security gap, unnecessary cost, or performance issue elsewhere.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — built for aider. Also seen: mentions Codex; built for aider; mentions OpenCode.

Good fit Use it before approving new cloud resources or major changes to how a system is accessed, scaled, operated, or billed.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/niels-emmer/myace/well-architected-review
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 niels-emmer/myace --skill well-architected-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/niels-emmer/myace

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 765 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 $0.00040 $0.00765
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00382
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00153
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00076

Measured 8d ago against content hash 04c905f8c3e5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Well-Architected Pillar Review 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 8d 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.

collections/additional/iac-expert/skills/well-architected-review/SKILL.md · 44 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 44 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Purpose

Every major cloud provider publishes a "well-architected" style framework — Azure's Well-Architected Framework, AWS's Well-Architected Framework, Google Cloud's architecture framework — and they converge on essentially the same handful of pillars, phrased slightly differently. The value isn't in citing a specific provider's document; it's in the habit of checking a change against all of them instead of only the one pillar that happened to motivate the change. This skill is a short walk-through of what to check per pillar, provider-agnostic.

When to use it

Before calling any nontrivial infrastructure change done — new resources, materially changed configuration of existing ones, anything that affects how the system is reached, scaled, or paid for. Skip it for genuinely cosmetic changes (renaming a variable with no resource impact).

The pillars, and what to actually check

Security. Does this change follow private-by-default networking and managed-identity-over-secrets? Does it grant any new permission, and is that permission scoped to what's needed? Does it introduce or remove a documented exception?

Reliability. Does this resource have a single point of failure it didn't have to have (no redundancy, no multi-zone/multi-region option considered)? If it fails, what notices, and how does recovery happen — automatically, or does someone have to intervene? Does the change affect any existing failover or backup path?

Cost. Does the resource size/tier match actual expected load, or is it a guess that should be revisited after real usage data exists? Is there a cheaper resource type or pricing model (reserved/committed vs. on-demand, serverless vs. always-on) that fits the workload's actual traffic pattern? Is the cost attributable to a specific cost-center tag so it shows up in the right place later?

Operational excellence. Can this change be deployed, rolled back, and monitored the same way the rest of the environment is — same pipeline, same alerting, same logging conventions — or does it introduce a one-off process? Is there a way to tell the resource is healthy without logging into a console by hand?

Read the full file on GitHub · 44 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. 8d ago First seen · 44 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A 04c905f8c3e5

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Well-Architected Pillar Review is a skill published in the GitHub repository niels-emmer/myace (1 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 765 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 2026-09-03.