architecture

architecture is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills. It costs 28 tokens per session (452 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An architecture decision framework for analysing requirements, comparing trade-offs, choosing patterns, and recording decisions in ADRs. An ADR is a short document explaining an important technical choice and its reasons.

In plain words
What is it for?
It supports new system design, pattern selection, architecture analysis, and documenting decisions.
Why use it?
It helps prevent premature complexity and makes system design choices easier to review and maintain.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

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

Good fit It supports new system design, pattern selection, architecture analysis, and documenting decisions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills/architecture
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 architecture
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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 architecture

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

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills/architecture"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills/architecture.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 28 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 452 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 9 Jul 2026
  • Snyk pass 9 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 $0.00028 $0.00452
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00226
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00090
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00045

Measured 5d ago against content hash cc1ab59295d5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 5d 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/architecture/SKILL.md · 66 lines

What it actually says

Architecture Decision Framework

"Requirements drive architecture. Trade-offs inform decisions. ADRs capture rationale."

🎯 Selective Reading Rule

Read ONLY files relevant to the request! Check the content map, find what you need.

File Description When to Read
context-discovery.md Questions to ask, project classification Starting architecture design
trade-off-analysis.md ADR templates, trade-off framework Documenting decisions
pattern-selection.md Decision trees, anti-patterns Choosing patterns
examples.md MVP, SaaS, Enterprise examples Reference implementations
patterns-reference.md Quick lookup for patterns Pattern comparison

Skill Use For
@[skills/database-design] Database schema design
@[skills/api-patterns] API design patterns
@[skills/deployment-procedures] Deployment architecture

Core Principle

"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."

  • Start simple
  • Add complexity ONLY when proven necessary
  • You can always add patterns later
  • Removing complexity is MUCH harder than adding it

Validation Checklist

Before finalizing architecture:

  • Requirements clearly understood
  • Constraints identified
  • Each decision has trade-off analysis
  • Simpler alternatives considered
  • ADRs written for significant decisions
  • Team expertise matches chosen patterns

When to Use

This skill is applicable to execute the workflow or actions described in the overview.

Limitations

  • Use this skill only when the task clearly matches the scope described above.
  • Do not treat the output as a substitute for environment-specific validation, testing, or expert review.
  • Stop and ask for clarification if required inputs, permissions, safety boundaries, or success criteria are missing.
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. 5d ago First seen · 66 lines · 28 tokens per session scan A cc1ab59295d5

Subscribe to this mod's changes

architecture is a skill published in the GitHub repository sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills (46,230 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 28 tokens to every session and 452 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.