opensession: Skill for Claude Code

.agents/skills/pstack-suite/skills/architect/SKILL.md

architect is a skill for Claude Code from tellahq/opensession. It costs 54 tokens per session (1,212 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A design-first workflow that sketches types, function signatures, and module boundaries before implementation, then revises the design when code exposes problems.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design non-trivial features, compare implementation shapes, establish ownership boundaries, and then implement against the selected design.
Why use it?
It helps prevent a premature implementation from locking a project into the wrong structure.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

This is tellahq/opensession's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on opensession itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything opensession configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to tellahq/opensession. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tellahq/opensession/main/.agents/skills/pstack-suite/skills/architect/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tellahq/opensession

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 54 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,212 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 $0.00054 $0.01212
Opus 5 $0.00027 $0.00606
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00242
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00121

Measured 3d ago against content hash 80c2e8efbe56, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

5 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

.agents/skills/pstack-suite/skills/architect/SKILL.md · 84 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 84 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Architect

Design before implementing. Sketch types, function signatures, class shapes, and module boundaries with not implemented bodies and pseudocode. Synthesize across multiple model perspectives, then fill in code against the chosen sketch. If implementation proves the sketch wrong, throw it out and redesign.

Start

Keep a checklist with one entry per phase before starting. Autonomous mode without checkpoints needs the list to show phase position and keep phases from silently disappearing.

  1. Ground
  2. Sketch
  3. Agree
  4. Implement
  5. Scrap

Phase A: Ground the problem

Build a real mental model of every system the new code touches. Run the how skill over the relevant subsystems. Critique mode if existing structure is the constraint or the design must push back on it.

Naming a file isn't grounding. Produce the traced model how prescribes. If the design redefines ownership or layering, also run the why skill on the existing shape so the rationale becomes a constraint, not a guess.

Skip Phase A only when the work is genuinely greenfield with no surrounding system to integrate.

Phase B: Sketch

Run the arena skill with the design-sketch task and the Phase A grounding artifacts. Pass references/runner-prompt.md as each runner's prompt. Each candidate produces a design package shaped per references/rationale-template.md: the caller's usage written first, then the type sketch, function signatures, module map, and prose rationale derived from it.

Use the arena's Open Session model and child-session rules. Omit explicit models unless the current workspace preset provides configured supporting models.

Design it twice. Require at least two structurally distinct candidates before synthesis, even when the first looks sufficient. This is the exhaust-the-design-space principle skill made concrete. Whole-shape alternatives, not point fixes inside one shape.

Screen every candidate against references/design-red-flags.md before synthesis. Reject or revise shallow modules, information leakage, temporal decomposition, and pass-through methods.

Read the full file on GitHub · 84 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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 · 84 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A 80c2e8efbe56

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architect is a skill published in the GitHub repository tellahq/opensession (355 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 1,212 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-09-03.

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