architecture-review

architecture-review is a skill for Claude Code from owainlewis/blueprint. It costs 53 tokens per session (944 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A read-only review of a technical proposal, such as an architecture document, RFC, ADR, or issue describing a system change. It checks whether the proposed design is clear, correct, secure, scalable, operable, and provable.

In plain words
What is it for?
Reviewing system designs, architecture decisions, implementation plans, and proposed changes for ambiguity, correctness, performance, security, operations, and evidence of success.
Why use it?
It finds important missing details and design flaws before implementation begins. The review follows a real case from input to user-visible result, including failures, retries, side effects, and cleanup.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Good fit Reviewing system designs, architecture decisions, implementation plans, and proposed changes for ambiguity, correctness, performance, security, operations, and evidence of success.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/owainlewis/blueprint/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 owainlewis/blueprint --skill architecture-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/owainlewis/blueprint

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 53 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 944 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 $0.00053 $0.00944
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00472
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00189
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00094

Measured 10d ago against content hash e20d7b8f5a5d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, 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 10d 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/architecture-review/SKILL.md · 96 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 96 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Architecture review

Find choices that could make a technical proposal wrong, unsafe, or impossible to prove. Review the proposed behavior and tradeoffs, not the document's size or format.

Use one fresh subagent that did not write the proposal. Give the reviewer the complete context. Tell the reviewer to work directly without delegating. If you are that reviewer, review directly. Stay read-only.

If fresh subagents are unavailable, stop and report that independent review is blocked. Continue only if the user explicitly accepts a documented self-review.

Process

  1. Read the goal, proposal, repository instructions, relevant current code, tests, schemas, configuration, and linked material. Treat claims about the current system as unverified until code, tests, schemas, configuration, infrastructure, or relevant runtime evidence supports them.
  2. State the problem, affected user, intended outcome, success measure, scope, constraints, and main tradeoff. Report any that the proposal leaves unclear.
  3. Trace one real case from input to observable outcome. Include ownership, validation, state changes, side effects, response timing, failure, retry, cleanup, and what the user sees where they matter.
  4. Challenge the chosen design with the review focus below. Look for a simpler choice that reaches the same outcome and proof with less state, coupling, duplication, or operational work.
  5. Surface material open questions. Recommend an answer when evidence supports one. Do not invent questions that cannot change the design.
  6. Return findings, open questions, a short assessment, and one verdict. Do not rewrite the proposal, plan the work, review implementation code, or implement changes.

Review focus

  • Check fit with the current system, ownership, boundaries, interfaces, data, compatibility, migration, rollout, and rollback.
  • Trace partial failure, retry, cancellation, concurrency, startup, shutdown, and recovery where they affect the proposal.
  • Check claimed scale, limited resources, latency, throughput, storage, cost, dependency failure, and operator recovery only where they can change the choice.
  • Check identity, authorization, untrusted input, credentials, destructive authority, and sensitive data handling.
  • Require observable acceptance criteria and proof for important rules and failure paths. Do not let implementation invent user-visible behavior, interfaces, data rules, security policy, or failure behavior.

Read the full file on GitHub · 96 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. 10d ago First seen · 96 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A e20d7b8f5a5d

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architecture-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository owainlewis/blueprint (388 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 944 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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