architecture

A guided process for making and recording an architecture decision, meaning a choice about how a system should be designed. It gathers the relevant code and documents several options with their trade-offs before implementation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when choosing between data models, processing strategies, schemas, or ways to handle ordering and race conditions.
Why use it?
It makes design forks explicit before coding continues. This helps the team compare consequences, handle edge cases, and keep a written record of the decision.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/rakovi4/continue-framework/architecture
Any agent
npx skills add rakovi4/continue-framework --skill architecture
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rakovi4/continue-framework

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 68 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 554 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.
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 $0.00068 $0.00554
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00277
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00111
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00055

Measured 3d ago against content hash 86ebf62ecf89, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

architecture 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.

.claude/skills/architecture/SKILL.md · 63 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 63 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/architecture - Architectural Decision Record

Usage

/architecture 2 "task ordering within columns"   # Story 2, named decision
/architecture 10                                   # Story 10, discover topic interactively
/architecture                                      # Detect from recent git log

Purpose

When implementation reveals a design fork — multiple viable approaches with different trade-offs — this skill pauses coding to think through the options, document the decision, and plan the implementation with proper TDD steps.

Workflow

Phase 1: Context Gathering

  1. Resolve story from argument (same resolution as /continue)
  2. Read the story spec, current progress, relevant test specs, and existing ADRs
  3. Read the code involved — domain entities, usecases, adapters, schemas
  4. Summarize the decision point: what question needs answering, what triggered it, what constraints exist

Phase 2: Interactive Discussion

  1. Present the problem — describe the tension or fork point clearly
  2. Propose 2-4 options with trade-offs (how it works, pros/cons, impact, edge cases)
  3. Request a user decision using structured input when available, otherwise ask directly; pause so the developer can choose or propose alternatives
  4. Iterate until the approach is clear
  5. Draw diagrams when helpful — write HTML files to visualize complex flows

Phase 3: Write ADR

Use the format from .claude/templates/spec/adr-format.md.

Phase 4: Update Test Specs

Add edge case scenarios discovered during discussion to the appropriate test spec file.

Phase 5: Update Progress

Update progress.md with TDD steps that implement the decision.

Phase 6: Commit

Commit message: Story N: ADR for {decision topic} (Scenario X)

Rules

  • Never generate code during this skill — it's a planning tool
  • Always read existing ADRs in the story's decisions/ subfolder to avoid contradicting prior decisions
  • The developer makes the final call — present options, don't prescribe
  • Keep ADRs concise — include current schema/code state when relevant

Read the full file on GitHub · 63 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. 3d ago First seen · 63 lines · 68 tokens per session scan A 86ebf62ecf89

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architecture is a skill published in the GitHub repository rakovi4/continue-framework (50 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 68 tokens to every session and 554 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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