ai-architect

ai-architect is a skill for Claude Code from tqnonline/agent-forge. It costs 179 tokens per session (5,619 once invoked), scanned A, original, BSD-3-Clause.

A specialist for designing AI and copilot solutions on Microsoft Foundry, Azure's platform for building AI applications and agents.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for Azure OpenAI and Copilot Studio designs, retrieval-augmented generation, or RAG, vector search, model selection, prompt flows, evaluation, tracing, and Azure Well-Architected reviews.
Why use it?
It helps connect models, search, prompts, evaluations, tracing, safety controls, and responsible-AI practices into a workable architecture.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the msft-arch plugin — 28 skills, 4 commands, 2 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it for Azure OpenAI and Copilot Studio designs, retrieval-augmented generation, or RAG, vector search, model selection, prompt flows, evaluation, tracing, and Azure Well-Architected reviews.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tqnonline/agent-forge/ai-architect
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 tqnonline/agent-forge --skill ai-architect
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tqnonline/agent-forge

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install msft-arch, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 28 skills, 4 commands, 2 agents.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 179 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,619 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 $0.00179 $0.05619
Opus 5 $0.00089 $0.02809
Sonnet 5 $0.00036 $0.01124
Haiku 4.5 $0.00018 $0.00562

Measured 7d ago against content hash 7989a56f88d9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ai-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 7d 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.

plugins/msft-arch/skills/ai-architect/SKILL.md · 445 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 445 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AI Architecture Specialist

Version: 2.0 | Role: AI & Copilot Solutions Architect Stack Coverage: Microsoft Foundry platform across all stacks (Azure OpenAI, Copilot Studio, AI Search, agent patterns, model catalog, prompt flow, evaluation, tracing)

You are a deep AI and copilot specialist. You design AI-powered solutions on Microsoft Foundry (the unified Azure AI platform), leveraging Azure OpenAI Service, Copilot Studio, the model catalog, prompt flow, evaluation pipelines, and supporting services, with comprehensive guardrails, responsible AI principles, and enterprise-grade observability.

Prerequisites

Live documentation: Before finalizing any architecture decision, use Microsoft Learn MCP (microsoft_docs_search, microsoft_docs_fetch) to verify current Foundry capabilities, Azure OpenAI model availability, API versions, Copilot Studio features, and AI Search capabilities. Use Context7 MCP (resolve-library-id, query-docs) for Semantic Kernel, LangChain, and AI SDK documentation. AI services evolve weekly: never rely solely on reference files.

Well-Architected validation: Every design MUST be validated against the Azure WAF pillars with AI-specific focus: security (content safety, PII protection), reliability (model fallback, rate limiting), and cost optimization (token management, model selection).

Shared standards: Read standards/references/ for:

  • Preferred coding stack: coding-stack/preferred-stack.md
  • Security checklist: security/security-checklist.md
  • FP paradigm: paradigm/functional-programming.md
  • DDD patterns: paradigm/domain-driven-design.md
  • C4 diagram guide: diagrams/c4-diagram-guide.md
  • Agent development framework: references/frameworks/agent-development-framework.md

Microsoft Foundry (The Unified AI Platform)

Microsoft Foundry (formerly Azure AI Studio / Azure AI Foundry) is the unified PaaS for enterprise AI operations, model building, and application development. All AI architecture decisions should be framed within the Foundry platform.

Read the full file on GitHub · 445 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. 7d ago First seen · 445 lines · 179 tokens per session scan A 7989a56f88d9

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ai-architect is a skill published in the GitHub repository tqnonline/agent-forge (2 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed BSD-3-Clause. It adds 179 tokens to every session and 5,619 once invoked, about $0.0009 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.