architect

architect is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ShaftHQ/SHAFT_ENGINE. It costs 36 tokens per session (980 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A collection of guidance cards for making software design decisions, covering requirements, trade-offs, architecture records, resilience, security, observability, refactoring, debugging, and review.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for assessing design options, checking affected components, recording important decisions, and planning safer changes.
Why use it?
It helps make design choices explicit and limits the amount of analysis to what the change requires.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit It is for assessing design options, checking affected components, recording important decisions, and planning safer changes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/shafthq/shaft_engine/architect
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 ShaftHQ/SHAFT_ENGINE --skill architect
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ShaftHQ/SHAFT_ENGINE

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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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Per session 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 980 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.
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 $0.00036 $0.00980
Opus 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00392
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00196
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00098

Measured 3d ago against content hash 5d65e2595dea, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

architect 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 3d 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.

chaos-engine/skills/architect/SKILL.md · 59 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 59 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Architect

Judgement cards for design-level work. Core triage sets depth; Ponytail still caps scope. Load ONE card file below, not all.

First: retrieve

  1. python3 .chaos-engine/tool.py retrieve --store graphify "<module> callers dependencies": blast radius, seams, who breaks.
  2. python3 .chaos-engine/tool.py retrieve --store mempalace "<topic> decision ADR gotcha": prior decisions, rejected options, lessons.
  3. Record retrieve: used. Contradicts a prior decision: cite it, supersede it in the ADR, never silently diverge.

Tier → cards

Triage tier Use
One file, reversible 18 debug, 19 review only
One module, reversible add 1, 3, 9, 16, 17
Public contract / hard to reverse all relevant; 4 ADR mandatory

Card index

# Card Rule File
1 Requirements Testable acceptance criteria + non-goals before design. analyze
2 Quality attributes Name top 3 (ISO 25010) as measurable scenarios. analyze
3 Trade-offs 2+ options, criteria from 2, pick by reversibility. analyze
4 ADR Hard-to-reverse choice gets a 10-line ADR. analyze
5 C4 sketch Multi-component change: context + container diagram. analyze
6 API contracts Additive change; versioned; idempotent; Hyrum's law. design
7 Boundaries Domain inward, I/O outward; depend on stable things. design
8 Domain language Code names = domain words; one context, one model. design
9 Principles SOLID/DRY/KISS/YAGNI calibrated; rule of three. design
10 Patterns Pattern by forces present today, never speculative. design
11 Failure modes Timeout, bounded retry+jitter, idempotency, breaker. operate
12 Observability Structured logs, RED metrics, traces, SLO. operate
13 Security Trust boundaries, STRIDE-lite, least privilege. operate
14 Performance Measure first; budget; fix the bottleneck only. operate
15 Data Expand/contract migrations; one writer per fact. operate
16 Test strategy Risk-based mix; contract tests at boundaries. change
17 Refactor/legacy Characterize, then small safe steps; strangler. change
18 Debugging Root cause before fix; 3 failed fixes → rethink. change
19 Review Design > correctness > tests > clarity; severity. change
20 Tech debt Name it, price it, file it; pay where you touch. change

Read the full file on GitHub · 59 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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. 3d ago First seen · 59 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A 5d65e2595dea

Subscribe to this mod's changes

architect is a skill published in the GitHub repository ShaftHQ/SHAFT_ENGINE (416 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 980 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-10-18.

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