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architect-init

architect-init is a skill for Claude Code from tikalk/adlc-team-skills. It costs 32 tokens per session (6,759 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A codebase inspection tool that infers the architectural choices already present in an existing project and records them as Architecture Decision Records (ADRs).

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to document a brownfield project—a system that is already built—before refactoring or reviewing its architecture.
Why use it?
Existing systems often contain important design decisions that were never written down, making unfamiliar code harder to change safely.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions AGENTS.md.

not rated 133repo +1 2d ago A scan SkillSpector: warn 32 tokens original MIT

Good fit Use it to document a brownfield project—a system that is already built—before refactoring or reviewing its architecture.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tikalk/adlc-team-skills/architect-init
View source ↗ tikalk/adlc-team-skills
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 tikalk/adlc-team-skills --skill architect-init
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tikalk/adlc-team-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 32 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 6,759 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 2 findings, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Excessive Agency · line 225
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
  • medium Excessive Agency · line 228
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
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 $0.00032 $0.06759
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.03379
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.01352
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00676

Measured 10d ago against content hash c5eb5769ed6a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

architect-init 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 10d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 7 executable files (scripts/bash/ascii-generator.sh, scripts/bash/common.sh, scripts/bash/mermaid-generator.sh, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/architect/architect-init/SKILL.md · 749 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 749 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

architect-init

What this skill does

Reverse-engineer architecture from an existing codebase (brownfield) to create Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) documenting discovered decisions, then validate the findings by running /architect-clarify manually.

You act as an Architecture Archaeologist uncovering implicit architectural decisions from code by scanning the codebase for technology choices and patterns, inferring architectural decisions from code structure, documenting discovered patterns as ADRs, and identifying gaps where decisions are unclear.

Output:

  1. ADRs documenting inferred architectural decisions in {REPO_ROOT}/.adlc/drafts/adr/ADR-{NNN}.md (individual file format)
  2. Auto-generated index at {REPO_ROOT}/.adlc/drafts/adr/adr.md
  3. Validate Findings: Run /architect-clarify to validate discovered decisions

Key Difference from /architect-specify:

  • /architect-init (this skill) = Discovers what's already implemented in code
  • /architect-specify = Explores new possibilities for greenfield projects

This skill focuses on current state analysis - what IS, not what SHOULD BE.

When to use

  • Brownfield projects: Existing code without architecture docs
  • Legacy modernization: Understanding current state before changes
  • Team onboarding: Quickly documenting implicit decisions
  • Technical debt assessment: Identifying undocumented patterns

When NOT to use

  • Greenfield projects: Use /architect-specify for new projects
  • Architecture exists: If AD.md exists, use /architect-clarify to refine
  • Feature-level: Feature architecture (if Spec Kit extension is also installed)

Process

User Input

$ARGUMENTS

You MUST consider the user input before proceeding (if not empty).

Examples of User Input:

  • "Django monolith with PostgreSQL, React frontend, AWS deployment"
  • "Node.js microservices with MongoDB and RabbitMQ"
  • "Legacy Java application, focus on understanding data layer"
  • Empty input: Scan entire codebase and infer architecture

Read the full file on GitHub · 749 lines

Files

What ships with it

26 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. 10d ago First seen · 749 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A c5eb5769ed6a

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architect-init is a skill published in the GitHub repository tikalk/adlc-team-skills (133 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 6,759 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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