agent-native-architecture

agent-native-architecture is a skill for Claude Code from roberto-mello/lavra. It costs 31 tokens per session (5,063 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of agent-native-architecture, MIT.

An architecture guide for building software in which an AI agent can use tools and complete tasks for the user. It focuses on making agent actions match what a person can do through the application.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when designing autonomous agents, tool-connected applications, or systems where agents modify files, manage information, or carry out multi-step workflows.
Why use it?
It helps avoid building interfaces that an agent cannot operate or workflows that only work for humans. The guide provides principles for making agent capabilities a central part of the design.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Part of the lavra plugin — 23 skills, 18 commands, 1 hook, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it when designing autonomous agents, tool-connected applications, or systems where agents modify files, manage information, or carry out multi-step workflows.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/roberto-mello/lavra/agent-native-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 roberto-mello/lavra --skill agent-native-architecture
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/roberto-mello/lavra

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install lavra, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 23 skills, 18 commands, 1 hook, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 31 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,063 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 94% 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 $0.00031 $0.05063
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.02531
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.01013
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00506

Measured 8d ago against content hash c7fdea531596, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agent-native-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 8d 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

94% identical to agent-native-architecture — 16 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.

plugins/lavra/skills/agent-native-architecture/SKILL.md · 440 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 440 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

<why_now>

Why Now

Software agents work reliably now. Claude Code demonstrated that an LLM with access to bash and file tools, operating in a loop until an objective is achieved, can accomplish complex multi-step tasks autonomously.

The surprising discovery: a good coding agent is a good general-purpose agent. The same architecture that lets Claude Code refactor a codebase can let an agent organize your files, manage your reading list, or automate your workflows.

The Claude Code SDK makes this accessible. You can build applications where features aren't code you write—they're outcomes you describe, achieved by an agent with tools, operating in a loop until the outcome is reached.

This opens up a new field: software that works the way Claude Code works, applied to categories far beyond coding. </why_now>

<core_principles>

Core Principles

1. Parity

Whatever the user can do through the UI, the agent should be able to achieve through tools.

This is the foundational principle. Without it, nothing else matters.

Imagine you build a notes app with a beautiful interface for creating, organizing, and tagging notes. A user asks the agent: "Create a note summarizing my meeting and tag it as urgent."

If you built UI for creating notes but no agent capability to do the same, the agent is stuck. It might apologize or ask clarifying questions, but it can't help—even though the action is trivial for a human using the interface.

The fix: Ensure the agent has tools (or combinations of tools) that can accomplish anything the UI can do.

This isn't about creating a 1:1 mapping of UI buttons to tools. It's about ensuring the agent can achieve the same outcomes. Sometimes that's a single tool (create_note). Sometimes it's composing primitives (write_file to a notes directory with proper formatting).

The discipline: When adding any UI capability, ask: can the agent achieve this outcome? If not, add the necessary tools or primitives.

A capability map helps:

Read the full file on GitHub · 440 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. 8d ago First seen · 440 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A c7fdea531596

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agent-native-architecture is a skill published in the GitHub repository roberto-mello/lavra (50 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 5,063 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 94% identical to agent-native-architecture, differing in 16 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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