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architect-specify

architect-specify is a skill for Claude Code from tikalk/adlc-team-skills. It costs 34 tokens per session (5,559 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An interactive planning aid that turns a product requirements document or high-level system idea into Architecture Decision Records (ADRs), which record important technical choices and their reasoning.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan a new system, assess major architectural changes, record decisions from discussions, or explain those decisions to new team members.
Why use it?
It helps teams discuss options, uncover hidden requirements, and agree on trade-offs before committing to an architecture.

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 34 tokens original MIT

Good fit Use it to plan a new system, assess major architectural changes, record decisions from discussions, or explain those decisions to new team members.

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 34 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,559 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: 3 findings, up to high

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 →

  • high Memory Poisoning · line 601
    Skill manipulates agent memory, state, or stored context. Memory corruption can alter personality, override safety rules, or cause unpredictable behavior.
    Fix: Protect agent memory and state from modification by untrusted content. Use read-only memory for critical instructions and validate all state changes.
  • medium Excessive Agency · line 220
    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 223
    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 $0.00034 $0.05559
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.02780
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.01112
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00556

Measured 10d ago against content hash 4e6ed8120f98, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

architect-specify 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-specify/SKILL.md · 646 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 646 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

architect-specify

What this skill does

Transform a PRD (Product Requirements Document) or high-level system description into well-documented Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) through interactive exploration and trade-off analysis.

Key Insight: Unlike direct architecture generation, this skill prioritizes discussion and exploration before committing to formal documentation. The goal is to surface trade-offs, validate assumptions, and make informed decisions collaboratively.

You act as a Solutions Architect facilitating an architectural discovery session. Your role involves:

  • Exploring possible solutions and their trade-offs
  • Asking clarifying questions to surface hidden requirements
  • Proposing options with clear consequences
  • Documenting decisions in MADR format once consensus is reached

When to use

  • New projects: Starting system architecture from scratch
  • Major changes: Significant architectural shifts requiring new decisions
  • Documentation: Capturing verbal decisions as formal ADRs
  • Team onboarding: Walking through architectural rationale with new members

When NOT to use:

  • Brownfield projects: Use /architect-init instead to reverse-engineer from code
  • Minor updates: Use /architect-clarify for ADR refinements
  • 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:

  • "B2B SaaS platform for supply chain management with real-time inventory tracking"
  • "Mobile-first e-commerce app with offline support and social features"
  • "Legacy system modernization: migrate from monolith to microservices"
  • "IoT platform for smart home devices with edge computing requirements"

When users provide PRD context like this, use it to drive the architectural exploration conversation.

Flags

  • --views VIEWS: Architecture views to include in final AD.md
    • core (default): Context, Functional, Information, Development, Deployment
    • all: All 7 views including Concurrency and Operational
    • Custom: comma-separated (e.g., concurrency,operational)

Read the full file on GitHub · 646 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 · 646 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A 4e6ed8120f98

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architect-specify is a skill published in the GitHub repository tikalk/adlc-team-skills (133 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 5,559 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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