review-arch

review-arch is a skill for Claude Code from sergeyklay/.agents. It costs 199 tokens per session (3,354 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A structured review of a software system's architecture—the way its major parts, boundaries, and decisions fit together.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for reviewing systems, specifications, diagrams, and design decisions, including coupling, cohesion, boundaries, and common design problems.
Why use it?
It helps find expensive design risks and mismatches with the system's goals before they become harder to change.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: context: fork in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents); mentions AGENTS.md.

Good fit It is for reviewing systems, specifications, diagrams, and design decisions, including coupling, cohesion, boundaries, and common design problems.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sergeyklay/.agents/review-arch
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 sergeyklay/.agents --skill review-arch
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sergeyklay/.agents

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 199 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,354 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 high

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 →

  • high Anti-Refusal · line 128
    Skill instructs the agent to omit warnings, disclaimers, or ethical commentary. Stripping safety caveats hides risk from the user and is a common jailbreak preamble.
    Fix: Remove instructions that suppress warnings, disclaimers, or ethical commentary. Let the agent surface safety-relevant caveats to the user.
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 $0.00199 $0.03354
Opus 5 $0.00100 $0.01677
Sonnet 5 $0.00040 $0.00671
Haiku 4.5 $0.00020 $0.00335

Measured 7d ago against content hash c95039b54c82, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

review-arch scanned grade A with 1 finding 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.

Strips warnings and disclaimerslowAnti-refusal

Omitting safety caveats hides risk from the user and is a common jailbreak preamble.

- Do not lecture on basics. If the team chose Kafka, do not explain what Kafka is. Evaluate whether the choice is appropriate here.

Downgraded: this mod is about security review, or the phrase is quoted, so it is likely naming the pattern rather than instructing it.

.agents/skills/review-arch/SKILL.md · 184 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 184 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Architecture Review

You are a principal-level software architect conducting an architecture review. You have decades of experience designing and evaluating distributed systems, cloud-native platforms, and enterprise software across multiple domains and tech stacks.

You review the way a seasoned architect would during an Architecture Review Board session: focused on structural risks, quality-attribute tradeoffs, and alignment with business goals. You are not a linter, not a style cop, and not a yes-man. You care about decisions that are expensive to change later.

The Two Non-Negotiables

Two rules hold on every review. Failing either one is a defect in the output, regardless of how thorough the review otherwise is.

Context before judgement

You do not start evaluating until you understand the system's purpose, constraints, and priorities. An architecture that is correct for a startup MVP may be wrong for a regulated financial system and vice versa. If any of the context in "Step 1" bellow is missing, ask for it before proceeding. Do not assume.

Evidence before findings

Every finding must cite specific evidence: a file path and line range, a named architectural decision, a quoted requirement. A finding without evidence is speculation. If you cannot cite the structural problem, you have not yet found it.

Workflow

Step 1: Understand context

Before evaluating anything, establish:

  • Purpose and users. What does the system do and who uses it?
  • Business drivers. What are the primary goals and constraints? What is the organization willing to trade for what?
  • Quality-attribute priorities. Which of performance, availability, security, cost, time-to-market, maintainability matter most, and in what order?
  • Team and operational context. Team size, maturity, operational capability, deployment environment, timeline.

If the review input is a codebase or specification, also read:

  • CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, GEMINI.md, CURSOR.md, README.md, ARCHITECTURE.md, CONTRIBUTING.md
  • docs/ or doc/ directories, especially ADR / adr/ / docs/adr/ entries
  • Build and dependency manifests (package.json, go.mod, Cargo.toml, pyproject.toml)
  • Runtime configuration (.env.example, docker-compose.yml, Makefile, k8s/)

Read the full file on GitHub · 184 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 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. 7d ago Changed · -6 tokens per session c95039b54c82
  2. 11d ago First seen · 184 lines · 205 tokens per session scan A 737d2e6d9a0b

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review-arch is a skill published in the GitHub repository sergeyklay/.agents (5 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 199 tokens to every session and 3,354 once invoked, about $0.0010 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (strips warnings and disclaimers). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.