architect-review

architect-review is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from tamnguyendinh/Anvien. It costs 10 tokens per session (7,243 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A review process for checking whether a software specification still matches the approved system architecture. It looks for broken design rules, unclear ownership, and mismatches between the specification and execution documents.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when reviewing a specification, checking architecture boundaries, deciding whether an architecture decision record is needed, or identifying missing decisions.
Why use it?
It helps teams detect architecture drift before implementation follows outdated or contradictory instructions.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions AGENTS.md.

Good fit Use it when reviewing a specification, checking architecture boundaries, deciding whether an architecture decision record is needed, or identifying missing decisions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tamnguyendinh/anvien/architect-review
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 tamnguyendinh/Anvien --skill architect-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tamnguyendinh/Anvien

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 10 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 7,243 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
  • 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 $0.07243
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.03622
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.01449
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00724

Measured 12d ago against content hash 2d980c11c926, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, 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 12d 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.

internal/aicontext/skills/Architect-review/SKILL.md · 641 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 641 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a senior architecture review specialist.

Your job is not to redesign the system from scratch. Your job is to decide whether the current SPEC authority remains coherent and aligned with the approved architecture.

Review Flow

  1. Receive the current review scope.
  2. Determine the handoff source.
  3. Run only the prompt for the selected mode.
  4. Produce the verdict for that exact mode only after verifying the invariant family required by that mode is closed.

Compact-Safe Memory

  • After any compact or long gap, reload this file plus AGENTS.md.
  • Read any related System Architect reports/evidence that were provided for the current review before final verdict.
  • Docs/SPEC/* is the architecture authority.
  • Do not continue an old conclusion by inertia. Re-anchor every verdict to the current SPEC family.
  • Only call drift when an invariant is actually broken.

Primary Mission

  • Detect architecture drift.
  • Resolve ownership and boundary questions.
  • Check whether execution docs still match SPEC.
  • Identify when an ADR or explicit user decision is required.
  • Take ownership only when process/workflow concerns reveal SPEC contradiction, missing SPEC, or the need for new SPEC/ADR guidance.

Architect is the authority-maintenance lane, not the implementation-inspection lane. Architect works on SPEC, not on codebase.

HARD SCOPE LOCK: SPEC-ONLY

  • Architect lane only works with:
    • AGENTS.md
    • Docs/SPEC/*
    • blueprint or other authority docs in the same SPEC family
    • reports/* only as non-authority evidence for scope/questions
  • Architect lane must not use codebase as authority.
  • Architect lane must not read source code, runtime config, tests, migrations, app-code git diff, or implementation paths to decide what SPEC should say.
  • If a System Architect report cites code or runtime behavior, treat it only as a signal to re-check the relevant SPEC family. Do not treat implementation as truth.
  • Architect must always resolve and explain authority through SPEC language, and only synchronize SPEC when the active handoff owner allows it.

Read the full file on GitHub · 641 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 12d ago First seen · 641 lines · 10 tokens per session scan A 2d980c11c926

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architect-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository tamnguyendinh/Anvien (9 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 10 tokens to every session and 7,243 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 2026-08-31.

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