nw-sar-critique-dimensions

nw-sar-critique-dimensions is a skill for Claude Code from nWave-ai/nWave. It costs 25 tokens per session (1,024 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of nw-sa-critique-dimensions, MIT.

A checklist for reviewing architecture documents, including technology choices, alternatives, trade-offs, and missing context. An architecture document explains the major structure and technical decisions of a system.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for peer reviews of architecture proposals and for checking whether technical decisions are justified and complete.
Why use it?
It exposes designs driven by habit or fashionable tools instead of actual requirements. It also finds gaps that could make a decision hard for future maintainers to understand.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Good fit Use it for peer reviews of architecture proposals and for checking whether technical decisions are justified and complete.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nwave-ai/nwave/nw-sar-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-sar-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 25 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,024 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 91% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00025 $0.01024
Opus 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00410
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00005 $0.00205
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00102

Measured 1mo ago against content hash cf6860e5dfbe, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

nw-sar-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

This is a copy

91% identical to nw-sa-critique-dimensions — 5 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

nWave/skills/nw-sar-critique-dimensions/SKILL.md · 115 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 115 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 · 115 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 · 115 lines · 25 tokens per session scan A cf6860e5dfbe

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nw-sar-critique-dimensions is a skill published in the GitHub repository nWave-ai/nWave (620 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 1,024 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 91% identical to nw-sa-critique-dimensions, differing in 5 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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