nw-sa-critique-dimensions

nw-sa-critique-dimensions is a skill for Claude Code from nWave-ai/nWave. It costs 33 tokens per session (1,022 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A checklist for reviewing architecture documents, covering technology bias, missing context, alternatives, consequences, and other quality issues. Architecture documents record how a system is structured and why key choices were made.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when asking an architecture reviewer to assess a design or when performing a self-review before implementation.
Why use it?
It helps reviewers find unjustified complexity and incomplete decisions before they become expensive to change.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it when asking an architecture reviewer to assess a design or when performing a self-review before implementation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nwave-ai/nwave/nw-sa-critique-dimensions
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 nWave-ai/nWave --skill nw-sa-critique-dimensions
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nWave-ai/nWave

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 33 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,022 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 $0.00033 $0.01022
Opus 5.5 $0.00013 $0.00409
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00204
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00102

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 1fca9b488d0b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

nw-sa-critique-dimensions 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 1mo 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

nWave/skills/nw-sa-critique-dimensions/SKILL.md · 114 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 114 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Architecture Quality Critique Dimensions

Dimension 1: Architectural Bias Detection

Technology Preference Bias

Pattern: tech chosen by preference, not requirements. Detection: ADR lacks comparison matrix, choice not mapped to requirements, justified only as "best practice." Severity: HIGH.

Resume-Driven Development

Pattern: complex/trendy tech without requirement justification. Examples: microservices for 3-person team, Kafka for 100 req/day, service mesh without complexity. Detection: complexity exceeds team size/requirements, tech adds resume value not solves problem. Severity: CRITICAL.

Latest Technology Bias

Pattern: unproven tech (<6 months, small community) for production. Detection: check maturity, community, LTS, fallback plan. Severity: HIGH.

Dimension 2: ADR Quality Validation

Missing Context

ADR lacks business problem, technical constraints, or quality attribute requirements. Future maintainers cannot validate. Severity: HIGH.

Missing Alternatives Analysis

No alternatives (min 2 required). Each must be evaluated against requirements with rejection rationale. Severity: HIGH.

Missing Consequences

Omits positive/negative consequences and trade-offs. Quality attribute impact not analyzed. Severity: MEDIUM.

Dimension 3: Completeness Validation

Missing Quality Attributes

Architecture doesn't address required attributes. Verify: performance (latency, throughput) | scalability | security (auth, data protection) | maintainability (modularity, testability) | reliability (fault tolerance, recovery) | observability (logging, monitoring, alerting). Severity: CRITICAL.

Missing Performance Architecture

Performance requirements exist but no optimization strategy (caching, indexing, rate limiting, CDN). Severity: CRITICAL.

Dimension 4: Implementation Feasibility

Team Capability Mismatch

Requires expertise team lacks. Verify learning curve reasonable, training plan exists. Severity: HIGH.

Budget Constraints

Infrastructure costs exceed budget. Verify cost estimate exists and aligns. Severity: HIGH.

Read the full file on GitHub · 114 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. 1mo ago First seen · 114 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A 1fca9b488d0b

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nw-sa-critique-dimensions is a skill published in the GitHub repository nWave-ai/nWave (620 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 1,022 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-06.

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