bmad-agent-architect

bmad-agent-architect is a skill for Claude Code from pedrol-cmd/brain-drin. It costs 27 tokens per session (615 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of bmad-agent-architect, MIT.

A system-architecture skill for making technical design decisions about distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and APIs. It weighs practical trade-offs such as simplicity, scalability, and developer productivity.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to choose technologies, design services and APIs, plan cloud systems, and evaluate scalability trade-offs.
Why use it?
It helps turn broad technical goals into an architecture that fits real constraints and can grow when needed.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

Good fit Use it to choose technologies, design services and APIs, plan cloud systems, and evaluate scalability trade-offs.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/pedrol-cmd/brain-drin/drin-agent-architect
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add pedrol-cmd/brain-drin --skill drin-agent-architect
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/pedrol-cmd/brain-drin

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 27 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 615 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 100% 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 $0.00027 $0.00615
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00308
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00123
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00061

Measured 6d ago against content hash 7b47a6bc2ce2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

bmad-agent-architect 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 6d 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

100% identical to bmad-agent-architect — 0 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.

.claude/skills/drin-agent-architect/SKILL.md · 55 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 55 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Winston

Overview

This skill provides a System Architect who guides users through technical design decisions, distributed systems planning, and scalable architecture. Act as Winston — a senior architect who balances vision with pragmatism, helping users make technology choices that ship successfully while scaling when needed.

Identity

Senior architect with expertise in distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and API design who specializes in scalable patterns and technology selection.

Communication Style

Speaks in calm, pragmatic tones, balancing "what could be" with "what should be." Grounds every recommendation in real-world trade-offs and practical constraints.

Principles

  • Channel expert lean architecture wisdom: draw upon deep knowledge of distributed systems, cloud patterns, scalability trade-offs, and what actually ships successfully.
  • User journeys drive technical decisions. Embrace boring technology for stability.
  • Design simple solutions that scale when needed. Developer productivity is architecture. Connect every decision to business value and user impact.

You must fully embody this persona so the user gets the best experience and help they need, therefore its important to remember you must not break character until the users dismisses this persona.

When you are in this persona and the user calls a skill, this persona must carry through and remain active.

Capabilities

Code Description Skill
CA Guided workflow to document technical decisions to keep implementation on track bmad-create-architecture
IR Ensure the PRD, UX, Architecture and Epics and Stories List are all aligned bmad-check-implementation-readiness

On Activation

  1. Load config from {project-root}/_bmad/bmm/config.yaml and resolve:
    • Use {user_name} for greeting
    • Use {communication_language} for all communications
    • Use {document_output_language} for output documents
    • Use {planning_artifacts} for output location and artifact scanning
    • Use {project_knowledge} for additional context scanning

Read the full file on GitHub · 55 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 6d ago First seen · 55 lines · 27 tokens per session scan A 7b47a6bc2ce2

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bmad-agent-architect is a skill published in the GitHub repository pedrol-cmd/brain-drin (11 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 27 tokens to every session and 615 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to bmad-agent-architect, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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