architecture-review-facilitation

architecture-review-facilitation is a skill for Claude Code from sethdford/claude-skills. It costs 33 tokens per session (632 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A facilitation skill for running architecture reviews, meetings where a team examines how a system should be built. It structures the discussion, brings out disagreements, guides a decision, and records the reasoning and follow-up work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare and lead reviews of architecture proposals. It helps set the meeting goal, manage presentations and questions, compare options, decide between consensus and leadership direction, and document decisions.
Why use it?
It helps teams raise technical concerns safely and avoid meetings that end without a clear outcome. It separates understanding the proposal from evaluating trade-offs and deciding what happens next.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the architect-toolkit plugin — 7 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to prepare and lead reviews of architecture proposals. It helps set the meeting goal, manage presentations and questions, compare options, decide between consensus and leadership direction, and document decisions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sethdford/claude-skills/architecture-review-facilitation
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add sethdford/claude-skills --skill architecture-review-facilitation
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sethdford/claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install architect-toolkit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills.

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Per session 33 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 632 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 original No closer match found in the catalogue.
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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00033 $0.00632
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00316
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00126
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00063

Measured 12d ago against content hash 88d7b52f2d1c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

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architecture-review-facilitation 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 12d ago.

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Nothing flagged

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architect/architect-toolkit/skills/architecture-review-facilitation/SKILL.md · 57 lines

How it starts

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Architecture Review Facilitation

Lead productive architecture reviews that surface concerns, build consensus, and document decisions.

Context

You are facilitating architecture reviews. Create safe environment for questioning. Surface disagreements productively. Drive to decision. Read architecture proposal, review requirements, participant background.

Domain Context

Based on facilitation and decision-making research:

  • Psychological Safety: Team must feel safe raising concerns without fear of judgment
  • Structured Discussion: Guide from problem → proposals → evaluation → decision
  • Consensus vs Authority: Know when to seek consensus vs leadership decision
  • Documentation: Record decisions, rationale, and next steps

Instructions

  1. Prepare:

    • Read architecture proposal in advance
    • Identify potential concerns or disagreements
    • Set clear objectives (approve, feedback for revision, table for more info)
    • Reserve 60-90 minutes uninterrupted
  2. Start: "We're here to review [architecture]. Goal is solid decision, not agreement. All perspectives welcome."

  3. Present: Proposer presents problem, solution, trade-offs. 15-20 minutes. No interruptions yet.

  4. Clarify: "What questions help you understand the proposal?" Not criticism, genuine questions.

  5. Evaluate: "What are strengths? What concerns do you have?" Go around table; every voice heard.

  6. Resolve: Address concerns. "That's a real risk. How do we mitigate it?" Adjust design or document risk as accepted.

  7. Decide: "Based on discussion, I'm approving this with conditions: [list]. We'll revisit risk [X] in 2 weeks."

  8. Document: Approved, conditions, open risks, next steps. Send within 24 hours.

Anti-Patterns

  • Fake Consensus: Proposer dominates, others silent. "Anyone else?" No response → "Approved!" Result: concerns surface later. Guard: Explicitly solicit dissent; "I want to hear objections."
  • No Psychological Safety: Disagreement seen as disloyalty. Result: hidden concerns, bad decisions. Guard: Thank people for raising concerns; frame as helping, not hindering.
  • Decision Without Discussion: Facilitator decides without input. Result: team resentful. Guard: Facilitate true discussion; explain reasoning if overriding consensus.
  • No Documentation: Verbal decision, forgotten. Result: team misalignment. Guard: Write it down; send to all; reference later.

Read the full file on GitHub · 57 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. 12d ago First seen · 57 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A 88d7b52f2d1c

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architecture-review-facilitation is a skill published in the GitHub repository sethdford/claude-skills (41 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 632 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-30.

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