architecture-review

architecture-review is a skill for Claude Code from ondrej-svec/heart-of-gold-toolkit. It costs 103 tokens per session (2,493 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured method for reviewing a platform or product’s architecture against its code, claimed requirements, failure risks, and expected scale.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for scaling reviews, CTO handoffs, platform evaluations, failure-mode analysis, and architecture decision records. It produces a review document rather than changing code.
Why use it?
It helps teams distinguish documented intentions from what the system actually does and turn technical findings into decisions.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions subagents; names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the deep-thought plugin — 11 skills, 9 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it for scaling reviews, CTO handoffs, platform evaluations, failure-mode analysis, and architecture decision records. It produces a review document rather than changing code.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ondrej-svec/heart-of-gold-toolkit/architecture-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 ondrej-svec/heart-of-gold-toolkit --skill architecture-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ondrej-svec/heart-of-gold-toolkit

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install deep-thought, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 skills, 9 agents.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for architecture-review

README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for architecture-review

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 103 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,493 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 2 findings, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Excessive Agency · line 38
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
  • medium Excessive Agency · line 257
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
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 $0.00103 $0.02493
Opus 5 $0.00051 $0.01247
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00499
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00249

Measured 12d ago against content hash 44931832ec01, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

architecture-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 12d 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.

plugins/deep-thought/skills/architecture-review/SKILL.md · 261 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 261 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Architecture Review

Deep, evidence-based architectural review that produces a decision-grade document. Not a checklist pass — a systematic investigation that cross-references every claim against actual code, maps failure modes through the full lifecycle, and evaluates whether the architecture can support its intended scale.

Boundaries

This skill MAY: read code, analyze architecture, research platforms, write review documents, ask architectural decision questions via AskUserQuestion. This skill MAY NOT: modify application code, deploy changes, or make architectural changes. It produces a review document — the team decides what to act on.

Common Rationalizations

Shortcut Why It Fails The Cost
"Just summarize the issue/checklist" Restating what the team already knows adds no value CTO handoff that tells the team nothing new
"The README says X, so X is true" Code drifts from docs constantly False claims in the review become false decisions
"Recommend best practices without checking constraints" A 3-person vibe-coding team can't run Kubernetes Recommendations that are technically correct but impossible to execute
"Skip the edge cases — focus on happy path" Production failures happen on the unhappy path Architecture that works in demos but breaks under real load
"Trust the security audit's line numbers" Code changes daily; audits are snapshots Wrong file:line references destroy reviewer credibility

Phase 1: Scope and Context

Entry: User invokes /architecture-review with a target (repo path, issue URL, or description).

1.1 Identify the target

Input Action
GitHub issue URL Fetch issue body via gh issue view
Repo path Explore codebase structure
Description Clarify scope via AskUserQuestion

1.2 Gather context (parallel subagents)

Launch these concurrently:

  1. Codebase explorer (subagent, sonnet): Map the tech stack, directory structure, API routes, database schema, external dependencies, deployment config. Read package.json/requirements.txt, Dockerfile, CI configs, README.md, CLAUDE.md.

Read the full file on GitHub · 261 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. 12d ago First seen · 261 lines · 103 tokens per session scan A 44931832ec01

Subscribe to this mod's changes

architecture-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository ondrej-svec/heart-of-gold-toolkit (19 stars, last pushed 23d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 103 tokens to every session and 2,493 once invoked, about $0.0005 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.