arch-review

arch-review is a skill for Claude Code from ramboz/jig. It costs 207 tokens per session (3,984 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A review guide for architecture proposals, design documents, RFCs, and ADRs. These are documents that describe how a system should be built and why.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to produce a review covering the proposal’s summary, strengths, concerns, and unresolved questions.
Why use it?
It gives a consistent way to judge whether a design is ready, what it gets right, what could go wrong, and which questions remain open.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions subagents; mentions Claude Code.

Part of the jig plugin — 20 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to produce a review covering the proposal’s summary, strengths, concerns, and unresolved questions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ramboz/jig/arch-review
View source ↗ ramboz/jig
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.

Any agent
npx skills add ramboz/jig --skill arch-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ramboz/jig

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install jig, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 20 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for arch-review

README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for arch-review

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 207 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,984 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Rogue Agent · line 17
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
How audits are shown
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 5.1 $0.00207 $0.03984
Opus 5 $0.00103 $0.01992
Sonnet 5 $0.00041 $0.00797
Haiku 4.5 $0.00021 $0.00398

Measured 9d ago against content hash 14e00a9c9ded, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

arch-review 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 9d 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.

hosts/claude/skills/arch-review/SKILL.md · 345 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 345 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Spec 014 introduced this skill as jig's team baseline for architecture, design-doc, and RFC review. It is the second non-stub active jig skill that ships without a .py helper (after /jig:pr-review, spec 012) — arch-review is fundamentally a judgment skill, and what little determinism is needed (read the doc, identify the scope, classify the domain) Claude can run inline. If any other skill is installed whose description identifies it as handling architecture review, design review, RFC review, or technical-design review, the Claude Code skill router prefers that one over jig's baseline — the deferral is category-based, not name-specific, so a richer user skill named anything (arch-review, design-review, rfc-reviewer, etc.) wins. Jig's slim version remains the auto-trigger when no such skill is installed.

What this skill does

Produces a four-section markdown review of an architecture proposal, a design document, an RFC, or an ADR draft:

  1. Summary — a two-or-three-sentence paragraph stating what the proposal does and your overall assessment (is it ready to proceed, does it need revisions, does it need rework?).
  2. Strengths — what the design gets right. Be specific: reference actual decisions, trade-offs the author navigated well, constraints they respected, problems they anticipated. Constructive framing first — acknowledging good thinking helps the author understand what to keep when iterating.
  3. Concerns — risks, gaps, missing rationale, and unaddressed failure modes. This is the "poke holes" surface. Each concern should be specific to this proposal, not generic advice. Leanness is a first-class concern here: raise over-engineering, premature abstraction, and speculative generality (indirection, config knobs, or extension points with no current caller) when a simpler architecture would satisfy the same acceptance criteria — anchored to still meeting them, never stripping required behavior.
  4. Open questions — things you can't decide from the proposal alone. Ask the author to clarify rather than asserting a gap. Phrase as "help me understand X" not "didn't you consider X".

The review is breadth over depth: catch the obvious across any domain, leave the deep multi-persona / domain-specific analysis to a richer user-installed architecture-review skill. If you want a seven-perspective matrix (technical-soundness + operational complexity

  • reliability + security + scalability + migration + product impact), or domain-specific reference files for distributed systems / API design / data architecture / migration plans, jig doesn't ship those — install a heavier skill at the user scope and the router will prefer it.

Read the full file on GitHub · 345 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. 9d ago First seen · 345 lines · 207 tokens per session scan A 14e00a9c9ded

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arch-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository ramboz/jig (6 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 207 tokens to every session and 3,984 once invoked, about $0.0010 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.