senior-architect

senior-architect is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Pixel-Process-UG/superkit-agents. It costs 53 tokens per session (2,326 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for making system-level design decisions, including architecture plans, trade-off comparisons, Architecture Decision Records (ADRs), scalability analysis, and non-functional requirements such as reliability or performance.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design services and infrastructure, choose technologies, define service boundaries, plan for scale, and document important architecture decisions.
Why use it?
It helps teams turn broad system goals into explicit requirements and compare design choices with their costs and benefits.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Good fit Use it to design services and infrastructure, choose technologies, define service boundaries, plan for scale, and document important architecture decisions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/pixel-process-ug/superkit-agents/senior-architect
Install

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Any agent
npx skills add Pixel-Process-UG/superkit-agents --skill senior-architect
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Pixel-Process-UG/superkit-agents

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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 2,326 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 original No closer match found in the catalogue.
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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00053 $0.02326
Opus 5.5 $0.00021 $0.00930
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00011 $0.00465
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00233

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 609e82958fa2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

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Grade A, and why

senior-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 1mo ago.

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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.

templates/skills/senior-architect/SKILL.md · 286 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 286 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Senior Architect

Overview

Provide architecture-level guidance for system design decisions. This skill produces Architecture Decision Records (ADRs), trade-off analyses, scalability blueprints, and non-functional requirements specifications. Every recommendation includes explicit trade-offs and is grounded in proven patterns.

Announce at start: "I'm using the senior-architect skill for system design and architecture decisions."


Phase 1: Requirements Analysis

Goal: Capture all functional and non-functional requirements before designing.

Actions

  1. Identify functional requirements (capabilities)
  2. Define non-functional requirements (quality attributes)
  3. Identify constraints (budget, team, timeline, compliance)
  4. Map integration points with existing systems
  5. Establish success criteria and SLOs

STOP — Do NOT proceed to Phase 2 until:

  • Functional requirements are listed
  • Non-functional requirements are quantified (not vague)
  • Constraints are explicit
  • Success criteria are measurable

Phase 2: Architecture Design

Goal: Evaluate options and select the approach with the best trade-off profile.

Actions

  1. Evaluate architectural styles (monolith, microservices, event-driven)
  2. Design component boundaries and interfaces
  3. Define data architecture (storage, flow, consistency)
  4. Plan infrastructure and deployment topology
  5. Address cross-cutting concerns (auth, logging, monitoring)

Architecture Style Decision Table

Factor Monolith Modular Monolith Microservices Serverless
Team size < 10 Preferred Strong fit Overkill Good for bursty
Team size > 30 Challenging Good Preferred Depends
Domain well-understood Good fit Good fit Not needed yet Good fit
Domain evolving rapidly Fine to start Good fit Too early Good fit
Need independent deployment Not possible Limited Key benefit Built-in
Operational maturity low Good fit Good fit High risk Managed risk
Variable/bursty load Over-provisioned Over-provisioned Possible Strong fit

Read the full file on GitHub · 286 lines

Changes

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  1. 1mo ago First seen · 286 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A 609e82958fa2

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senior-architect is a skill published in the GitHub repository Pixel-Process-UG/superkit-agents (3 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 2,326 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-03.

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