improve-codebase-architecture

improve-codebase-architecture is a skill for Claude Code from rengwu/wayfinder-maps. It costs 32 tokens per session (1,261 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of improve-codebase-architecture, MIT.

A codebase review that finds places where the software structure could become easier to test and navigate, then produces a visual HTML report about the opportunities. It also guides a detailed review of a selected opportunity.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect a codebase, identify refactoring opportunities, review them in a visual report, and examine one chosen architectural improvement in depth.
Why use it?
It helps reveal architectural friction that may be hard to spot during ordinary feature work. The review focuses attention on changes that can make code easier for people and coding agents to understand.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Part of the wayfinder-maps plugin — 14 skills shipped together

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/rengwu/wayfinder-maps/improve-codebase-architecture
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 rengwu/wayfinder-maps --skill improve-codebase-architecture
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rengwu/wayfinder-maps

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install wayfinder-maps, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 14 skills.

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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.

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README.md
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<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/rengwu/wayfinder-maps/improve-codebase-architecture"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/rengwu/wayfinder-maps/improve-codebase-architecture.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 32 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,261 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 77% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00032 $0.01261
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00630
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00252
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00126

Measured 7d ago against content hash aef7794b1aec, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, 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 7d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

77% identical to improve-codebase-architecture — 45 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/.optional/improve-codebase-architecture/SKILL.md · 67 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 67 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Improve Codebase Architecture

Surface architectural friction and propose deepening opportunities — refactors that turn shallow modules into deep ones. The aim is testability and AI-navigability.

This command is informed by the project's domain model and built on a shared design vocabulary:

  • Run the codebase-design skill for the architecture vocabulary (module, interface, depth, seam, adapter, leverage, locality) and its principles (the deletion test, "the interface is the test surface", "one adapter = hypothetical seam, two = real"). Use these terms exactly in every suggestion — don't drift into "component," "service," "API," or "boundary."
  • The domain language in CONTEXT.md gives names to good seams; ADRs in docs/adr/ record decisions this command should not re-litigate. If neither exists, proceed silently.

Process

1. Explore

Read the project's domain glossary (CONTEXT.md) and any ADRs in the area you're touching first, if they exist.

Then walk the codebase — via a read-only exploration subagent if your environment supports spawning one, otherwise directly. Don't follow rigid heuristics — explore organically and note where you experience friction:

  • Where does understanding one concept require bouncing between many small modules?
  • Where are modules shallow — interface nearly as complex as the implementation?
  • Where have pure functions been extracted just for testability, but the real bugs hide in how they're called (no locality)?
  • Where do tightly-coupled modules leak across their seams?
  • Which parts of the codebase are untested, or hard to test through their current interface?

Apply the deletion test to anything you suspect is shallow: would deleting it concentrate complexity, or just move it? A "yes, concentrates" is the signal you want.

2. Present candidates as an HTML report

Write a self-contained HTML file to the OS temp directory so nothing lands in the repo. Resolve the temp dir from $TMPDIR, falling back to /tmp (or %TEMP% on Windows), and write to <tmpdir>/architecture-review-<timestamp>.html so each run gets a fresh file. Open it for the user — xdg-open <path> on Linux, open <path> on macOS, start <path> on Windows — and tell them the absolute path.

Read the full file on GitHub · 67 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 7d ago First seen · 67 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A aef7794b1aec

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improve-codebase-architecture is a skill published in the GitHub repository rengwu/wayfinder-maps (118 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 1,261 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 77% identical to improve-codebase-architecture, differing in 45 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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