architecture-review

architecture-review is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from thiientv/godmode. It costs 80 tokens per session (456 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured review of an existing codebase's design and organization. It examines how parts of the software depend on one another and where responsibilities belong.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for architecture audits, breaking apart tightly connected modules, modernizing a codebase, or prioritizing structural improvements.
Why use it?
It helps explain why future changes are becoming difficult, risky, or hard to test, using evidence from the code and its history.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: shipped in a Claude Code plugin, but also agents/openai.yaml present.

Part of the godmode plugin — 34 skills, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it for architecture audits, breaking apart tightly connected modules, modernizing a codebase, or prioritizing structural improvements.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/thiientv/godmode/architecture-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 thiientv/godmode --skill architecture-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/thiientv/godmode

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install godmode, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 34 skills, 1 hook.

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README.md
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Per session 80 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 456 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 $0.00080 $0.00456
Opus 5 $0.00040 $0.00228
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00091
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00046

Measured 9d ago against content hash 768cdfe2b66c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

architecture-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 9d 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.

skills/architecture-review/SKILL.md · 57 lines

What it actually says

Architecture Review

Find structural changes that reduce the cost and risk of likely future work. Do not produce a generic best-practices checklist.

Scope the review

Use codebase-orientation first when ownership and execution paths are not known. Focus on the user-named subsystem or on evidence-backed hotspots from history, incidents, change coupling, and test failures. Read relevant ADRs and domain vocabulary before proposing alternatives.

Inspect structural pressure

Look for:

  • behavior spread across many callers instead of owned behind one interface;
  • interfaces that expose nearly as much complexity as they hide;
  • dependency cycles, unstable direction, duplicated policy, and hidden global state;
  • abstractions with one hypothetical implementation or pass-through layers;
  • tests that require internal knowledge because the public seam is wrong;
  • concepts named inconsistently across code, data, and product language.

Apply the deletion test: if removing a module only moves its complexity into every caller, it may be earning its place; if complexity disappears, it may be ceremony. Use candidate-report.md to compare current and proposed ownership.

Prioritize, do not redesign silently

Rank candidates by observed friction, expected locality/leverage, migration risk, reversibility, and relevance to upcoming work. Include a smallest useful change and explicit non-goals. Mark speculative ideas as speculative.

Hand an approved candidate to solution-design and implementation-planning; use code-simplification when no architectural boundary changes.

Completion condition

The report ties each candidate to repository evidence, shows current and proposed ownership, respects existing decisions or explicitly challenges them, and recommends a bounded first move without implementing an unapproved redesign.

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. 9d ago First seen · 57 lines · 80 tokens per session scan A 768cdfe2b66c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

architecture-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository thiientv/godmode (94 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 80 tokens to every session and 456 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-30.

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