ai-friendly-architecture

ai-friendly-architecture is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ValorVie/custom-skills. It costs 74 tokens per session (1,866 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for structuring software projects so AI assistants can understand them more easily, using clear boundaries and layered documentation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when designing project structure, documentation, or context files for AI-assisted development.
Why use it?
It reduces the amount the assistant has to guess about how the codebase is organised and how its parts work.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code.

Needs its repository: it reads a path above its own folder, which exists only inside the repository. The line is **Language**: English | [繁體中文](../../../locales/zh-TW/skills/claude-code/ai-friendly-architecture/SKILL.md).

Good fit Use it when designing project structure, documentation, or context files for AI-assisted development.

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Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
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agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/valorvie/custom-skills/ai-friendly-architecture

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 74 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,866 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

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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 $0.00074 $0.01866
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.00933
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00373
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00187

Measured 9d ago against content hash f52eaf753b16, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ai-friendly-architecture 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.

upstream/uds/backup/skills/ai-friendly-architecture/SKILL.md · 239 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 239 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AI-Friendly Architecture Guide

Language: English | 繁體中文

Version: 1.0.0 Last Updated: 2026-01-25 Applicability: Claude Code Skills


Core Standard: This skill implements AI-Friendly Architecture. For comprehensive methodology documentation, refer to the core standard.

AI Skills Hierarchy | AI 技能層級

This skill is part of a three-layer AI collaboration system:

Layer Skill Question it Answers 回答的問題
Behavior (Immediate) /ai-collaboration "How should AI respond accurately?" 「AI 如何準確回應?」
Configuration (Session) /ai-instruction-standards "What to write in CLAUDE.md?" 「CLAUDE.md 該寫什麼?」
Architecture (Long-term) /ai-friendly-architecture (this) "How to structure code for AI?" 「如何讓專案對 AI 友善?」

Purpose

This skill helps design project architecture that maximizes AI collaboration effectiveness through explicit patterns, layered documentation, and semantic boundaries.

Quick Reference

Core Principles

Principle Description Benefit
Explicit Over Implicit Document behavior explicitly AI understands without guessing
Layered Context Multi-level documentation Appropriate detail per task
Semantic Boundaries Clear module boundaries Independent analysis
Discoverable Structure Self-documenting structure Quick orientation

Context Layers

Layer Token Budget Content
L1: Quick Ref < 500 One-liners, API signatures, entry points
L2: Detailed < 5,000 Full API docs, usage examples
L3: Examples Unlimited Complete implementations, edge cases

Recommended Structure

project/
├── .ai-context.yaml          # AI context configuration
├── docs/
│   ├── QUICK-REF.md          # Level 1 documentation
│   └── ARCHITECTURE.md       # Level 2 documentation
├── src/
│   └── auth/
│       ├── index.ts          # Entry point with module header
│       ├── QUICK-REF.md      # Module quick reference
│       └── README.md         # Module documentation
└── CLAUDE.md                 # AI instruction file

Read the full file on GitHub · 239 lines

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 · 239 lines · 74 tokens per session scan A f52eaf753b16

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ai-friendly-architecture is a skill published in the GitHub repository ValorVie/custom-skills (5 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 74 tokens to every session and 1,866 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 2026-09-03.