improve-codebase-architecture

A guide for finding architectural improvements in an existing codebase. It uses the project’s domain notes and architecture decision records—documents that explain important past choices—to suggest meaningful refactoring opportunities.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to improve architecture, split or consolidate modules, make code easier to test, and make the repository easier for both developers and coding agents to understand.
Why use it?
It helps reveal growing complexity, tightly connected modules, and structures that make testing or future changes difficult.

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/ralvarezdev/ralvaskills/improve-codebase-architecture
Any agent
npx skills add ralvarezdev/ralvaskills --skill improve-codebase-architecture
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ralvarezdev/ralvaskills

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 1,788 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.01788
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00894
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00358
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00179

Measured yesterday against content hash 621319d84845, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

improve-codebase-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 yesterday.

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/refactoring/improve-codebase-architecture/SKILL.md · 100 lines

The source is not reproduced here

Licensed GPL-3.0

The repository is licensed GPL-3.0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.

Read it on GitHub

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. yesterday First seen · 100 lines · 68 tokens per session scan A 621319d84845

Subscribe to this mod's changes

improve-codebase-architecture is a skill published in the GitHub repository ralvarezdev/ralvaskills (3 stars, last pushed 22d ago), licensed GPL-3.0. It adds 68 tokens to every session and 1,788 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 2026-08-31.