arch-review

arch-review is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from vijayjoshi24/ea-agent-skills. It costs 112 tokens per session (928 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured review of an architecture proposal, system design, or technology pattern against enterprise architecture standards. It examines areas such as purpose, simplicity, security, resilience, and operations.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review an early concept, detailed design, architecture decision record, or completed solution before peer, board, or executive review.
Why use it?
It exposes design risks and trade-offs before implementation or an architecture review board, rather than merely approving the submitted idea. The feedback is evidence-based and actionable.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to review an early concept, detailed design, architecture decision record, or completed solution before peer, board, or executive review.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/vijayjoshi24/ea-agent-skills/arch-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 vijayjoshi24/ea-agent-skills --skill arch-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vijayjoshi24/ea-agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 112 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 928 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 $0.00112 $0.00928
Opus 5 $0.00056 $0.00464
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.00186
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00093

Measured 11d ago against content hash 8702c56fb3df, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

arch-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 11d 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/arch-review/SKILL.md · 113 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 113 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Architecture Review

Provide structured, evidence-based architecture review feedback. Reviews should be honest, specific, and actionable — not just validating what the team already decided.


Step 1 — Understand What's Being Reviewed

Identify:

  • What: system, service, pattern, ADR, or full solution design
  • Stage: early concept · detailed design · pre-ARB · post-implementation
  • Audience: peer review · ARB · CTO · external audit
  • Constraints: regulatory, legacy, budget, timeline (affect what's realistic to recommend)

Step 2 — Score Across Seven Dimensions

Rate each dimension: ✅ Strong · ⚠️ Needs attention · ❌ Significant issue

Dimension What to assess
Fitness for purpose Does the design actually solve the stated problem? Is it over- or under-engineered?
Simplicity Is this the simplest design that would work? Are there unnecessary abstractions?
Security Are controls proportionate to data sensitivity and threat model? Any obvious gaps?
Resilience Single points of failure, retry/circuit-breaker patterns, failover strategy, data durability
Operability Can it be deployed, monitored, scaled, and debugged in production?
Standards alignment Does it follow enterprise technology standards and approved patterns?
Decision quality Are key choices documented? Are trade-offs acknowledged?

Step 3 — Produce Findings

For each issue found, use this format:

[SEVERITY] {Dimension}: {concise issue title}
Finding: {what specifically is wrong or missing}
Impact: {what happens if this isn't addressed}
Recommendation: {specific action, not just "improve this"}
Effort: S (<1 day) | M (1 week) | L (1 sprint) | XL (>1 sprint)

Severity levels:

  • Critical — blocks approval; must be resolved before proceeding
  • High — should be resolved before implementation
  • Medium — should be addressed in the next iteration
  • Low — improvement opportunity, not blocking

Read the full file on GitHub · 113 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. 11d ago First seen · 113 lines · 112 tokens per session scan A 8702c56fb3df

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arch-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository vijayjoshi24/ea-agent-skills (5 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 112 tokens to every session and 928 once invoked, about $0.0006 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.