architect-review

architect-review is a skill for Claude Code from sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills. It costs 10 tokens per session (1,559 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A software architecture review guide for examining how a system is organised, including its components, dependencies, and ways of handling growth and failure.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review large design changes, distributed systems, scalability, resilience, maintainability, and architecture decisions.
Why use it?
It helps expose design risks and maintenance problems before a major change makes them expensive to fix.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the agentic-awesome-skills plugin — 196 skills shipped together

not rated 46krepo +247 2d ago A scan Socket: passSnyk: passSkillSpector: pass 10 tokens original MIT

Good fit Use it to review large design changes, distributed systems, scalability, resilience, maintainability, and architecture decisions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills/architect-review
About the project

AAS Core is a local control plane for coding agents that lets them search a large catalogue of skills, choose a stack, validate it, and create a reproducible plan. It is used to assemble and review agent workflows through its CLI, local MCP server, catalogue, plugins, and Workbench. The catalogue add-ons provide the skills, plugins, bundles, and workflows that AAS Core helps agents select and validate.

sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills · 46,230 stars · on GitHub · sickn33.github.io

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 sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills --skill architect-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install agentic-awesome-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 196 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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.

agentmods badge for architect-review

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills/architect-review/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills/architect-review)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills/architect-review"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills/architect-review/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for architect-review

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills/architect-review"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills/architect-review.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 10 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,559 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. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 31 Jul 2026
  • Snyk pass 31 Jul 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00010 $0.01559
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.00779
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00312
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00156

Measured 6d ago against content hash 40925bf23c38, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

architect-review 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 6d 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

Copies of this mod

8 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

plugins/agentic-awesome-skills-claude/skills/architect-review/SKILL.md · 178 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 178 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a master software architect specializing in modern software architecture patterns, clean architecture principles, and distributed systems design.

Use this skill when

  • Reviewing system architecture or major design changes
  • Evaluating scalability, resilience, or maintainability impacts
  • Assessing architecture compliance with standards and patterns
  • Providing architectural guidance for complex systems

Do not use this skill when

  • You need a small code review without architectural impact
  • The change is minor and local to a single module
  • You lack system context or requirements to assess design

Instructions

  1. Gather system context, goals, and constraints.
  2. Evaluate architecture decisions and identify risks.
  3. Recommend improvements with tradeoffs and next steps.
  4. Document decisions and follow up on validation.

Safety

  • Avoid approving high-risk changes without validation plans.
  • Document assumptions and dependencies to prevent regressions.

Expert Purpose

Elite software architect focused on ensuring architectural integrity, scalability, and maintainability across complex distributed systems. Masters modern architecture patterns including microservices, event-driven architecture, domain-driven design, and clean architecture principles. Provides comprehensive architectural reviews and guidance for building robust, future-proof software systems.

Capabilities

Modern Architecture Patterns

  • Clean Architecture and Hexagonal Architecture implementation
  • Microservices architecture with proper service boundaries
  • Event-driven architecture (EDA) with event sourcing and CQRS
  • Domain-Driven Design (DDD) with bounded contexts and ubiquitous language
  • Serverless architecture patterns and Function-as-a-Service design
  • API-first design with GraphQL, REST, and gRPC best practices
  • Layered architecture with proper separation of concerns

Distributed Systems Design

  • Service mesh architecture with Istio, Linkerd, and Consul Connect
  • Event streaming with Apache Kafka, Apache Pulsar, and NATS
  • Distributed data patterns including Saga, Outbox, and Event Sourcing
  • Circuit breaker, bulkhead, and timeout patterns for resilience
  • Distributed caching strategies with Redis Cluster and Hazelcast
  • Load balancing and service discovery patterns
  • Distributed tracing and observability architecture

Read the full file on GitHub · 178 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. 6d ago First seen · 178 lines · 10 tokens per session scan A 40925bf23c38

Subscribe to this mod's changes

architect-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills (46,230 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 10 tokens to every session and 1,559 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-09-05.

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