architect

architect is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from spumer/i-m-senior-developer. It costs 142 tokens per session (5,821 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A system-design guide that maps how a software system is split into parts, how data moves, and how those parts connect. It produces a Markdown architecture document before coding begins.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define modules, data flows, API shapes, integration contracts, and the responsibilities of each system component.
Why use it?
It gives implementation a written design to follow, so component boundaries and hand-offs are decided before code is written.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the sdlc plugin — 3 skills, 3 agents shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/spumer/i-m-senior-developer/architect
Any agent
npx skills add spumer/i-m-senior-developer --skill architect
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/spumer/i-m-senior-developer

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install sdlc, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills, 3 agents.

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.

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README.md
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Per session 142 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,821 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00142 $0.05821
Opus 5 $0.00071 $0.02910
Sonnet 5 $0.00028 $0.01164
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00582

Measured 4d ago against content hash 330edf4e65e7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 4d 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.

plugins/sdlc/skills/architect/SKILL.md · 265 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 265 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Architect — system design

Designs how the system fits together: bounded contexts, contracts, data flow, and integration points across components. The single artifact of an architect activation is an architecture document in Markdown — design decisions and explicit hand-offs. Not code, not tests, not migrations.

The architect skill is activated before implementation. It is the first phase of the sdlc pipeline (sdlc:architectsdlc:code-implementersdlc:code-reviewer). The architecture document it produces is the required input for sdlc:code-implementer. Starting implementation without an architecture document is a process violation that produces implementations the reviewer cannot validate against any stated design.

Outputs produced by the architect skill:

  • One ARCH-NN.md file (primary output — always produced)
  • Optionally, a conversation comment noting open questions that require human input before implementation (in session, not as a file)

Outputs the architect skill does not produce: source code, test files, migrations, configuration files, or any file that changes the running system.

Principles

  1. Design only — no implementation hints beyond contract.

    The architecture document may include type signatures and contract pseudocode (≤5 lines) to clarify a hand-off, but never functional implementation code. If a design decision requires a code spike to validate, say so explicitly: «needs a spike — sdlc:code-implementer to validate, then revisit». Do not write the spike. The seam between design and implementation is the architecture document itself — do not blur it.

  2. Bounded contexts (FPF A.1.1).

    Name each context. Draw the seams. State what each context owns and what it does not. A context boundary is defined by what changes together — not by what is convenient to import. A seam is not a directory; directories are an output artifact, not the design. When two contexts repeatedly need the same data, the instinct is "share a model" — the correct diagnosis is a missing third context that owns the shared data.

Read the full file on GitHub · 265 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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. 4d ago First seen · 265 lines · 142 tokens per session scan A 330edf4e65e7

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architect is a skill published in the GitHub repository spumer/i-m-senior-developer (11 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 142 tokens to every session and 5,821 once invoked, about $0.0007 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 2026-08-31.

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