architecture-advisor

A guide for designing or reviewing the structure of a software system. It covers how parts of an application are divided, how they communicate, and which technical choices fit the requirements.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for new system designs, architecture reviews, module boundaries, service splitting, database choices, and comparing technical approaches.
Why use it?
It helps avoid choosing an architecture before understanding the system’s scale, constraints, reliability needs, and team context.

Skill for Claude CodeCodexCursor

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/programmeranthony/expert-coding-harness/architecture-advisor
Any agent
npx skills add ProgrammerAnthony/Expert-Coding-Harness --skill architecture-advisor
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ProgrammerAnthony/Expert-Coding-Harness

Made for: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor.

Per session 90 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,533 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
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What it costs to keep this loaded

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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00090 $0.01533
Opus 5 $0.00045 $0.00766
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00307
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00153

Measured 3d ago against content hash e27f0bfd55c3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

architecture-advisor 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 3d 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.

.cursor/skills/architecture-advisor/SKILL.md · 170 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 170 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

架构顾问

铁律:先通过提问充分理解需求和约束,再给出架构建议。不在信息不足时草率推荐方案。

模式识别

启动时识别用户场景:

你的需求是:
1. 全新系统设计 — 从零开始设计架构
2. 现有架构分析 — 对已有系统进行评审和优化

工作流 A:全新系统设计

阶段一:需求澄清(设计前禁止输出方案)

按优先级逐步询问(每次最多 2-3 个问题):

必问

  • "这个系统的核心业务能力是什么(一句话描述)?"
  • "预期规模:DAU、QPS、数据量级是什么量级?"
  • "团队规模和技术栈偏好?(影响选型)"

按需追问

  • "可用性要求:允许多长时间的停机?"
  • "数据一致性要求:是否可以接受最终一致性?"
  • "有没有已确定的外部依赖或集成点?"
  • "安全和合规要求?(金融、医疗等领域有特殊约束)"

阶段二:方案设计

基于需求信息,给出 2-3 个架构方案(不超过 3 个),每个方案包含:

### 方案 X:[方案名称]

**核心思路**:[一段话描述]

**架构图**:
[Mermaid 图]

**优点**:
- [针对需求的具体优点]

**缺点/权衡**:
- [需要接受的代价]

**适用条件**:[什么情况下这个方案更合适]
**技术复杂度**:低/中/高
**团队学习成本**:低/中/高

分节展示,每个方案得到用户反馈后再继续。

阶段三:深化选定方案

用户选择方案后,深化设计:

  1. 分层架构详图(加载 references/architecture-patterns.md
  2. 核心模块定义(职责、接口、边界)
  3. 数据流设计(关键业务场景的数据流向)
  4. 关键技术决策(加载讨论,不直接拍板)
  5. 演进路径(从 MVP 到目标架构的分阶段路线图)

工作流 B:现有架构分析与优化

阶段一:现状收集

# 探索项目结构
ls -la
find . -name "*.py" -o -name "*.ts" -o -name "*.go" | head -50
# 查看主要入口
cat main.py / main.go / app.ts
# 依赖关系
cat requirements.txt / go.mod / package.json

同时询问用户:

  • "当前架构的主要痛点是什么?"
  • "有哪些已知的性能或可靠性问题?"
  • "有什么变更触发了这次架构评审?"

阶段二:架构图还原

根据代码库结构,输出现有架构的 Mermaid 图:

graph TD
    Client["客户端"] --> API["API 层"]
    API --> Service["服务层"]
    Service --> DB["数据库"]
    Service --> Cache["缓存"]
    Service --> MQ["消息队列"]

标注已识别的问题点(⚠️ 标记)。

阶段三:问题诊断

加载 references/architecture-patterns.md 对照检查:

  • 可扩展性:单点瓶颈、无法水平扩展的模块
  • 可靠性:单点故障、无容错机制
  • 可维护性:模块边界模糊、高耦合、循环依赖
  • 性能:同步阻塞、N+1 查询、缓存缺失
  • 安全性:认证授权缺陷、数据暴露风险

阶段四:优化路线图

加载 references/optimization-roadmap-template.md,输出:

## 优化路线图

### 立即行动(无需架构变更)
- [优化项 1]:[具体做法],预期收益 [X]

### 短期改进(1-3 个月)
- [改进项 1]:[描述变更范围],解决 [痛点 X]

### 中期重构(3-6 个月)
- [重构项 1]:[架构层面变更],需要 [资源 Y]

### 长期目标(6+ 个月)
- [目标架构]:[描述]

每项优化标注:影响面实施成本预期收益风险


DDD 概念应用

当系统复杂度较高时,加载 references/ddd-concepts.md 辅助边界设计:

  • 识别核心域、支撑域、通用域
  • 划分限界上下文(Bounded Context)
  • 定义聚合根和领域事件

警告:当你想跳过需求澄清时

Read the full file on GitHub · 170 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 files 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. 3d ago First seen · 170 lines · 90 tokens per session scan A e27f0bfd55c3

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architecture-advisor is a skill published in the GitHub repository ProgrammerAnthony/Expert-Coding-Harness (235 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 90 tokens to every session and 1,533 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.

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