architecture-awareness

architecture-awareness is a skill for Claude Code from Vimalk0703/shipworthy. It costs 41 tokens per session (2,925 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A way to detect a project's technologies and existing conventions, then maintain a written architecture specification. The specification acts as a lasting record of rules and design decisions for coding work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when starting or examining a project, generating architecture rules, detecting technology changes, and recording important design decisions.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk that an AI coding assistant forgets project constraints between sessions. Keeping the specification current helps new changes follow the project's established structure.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md.

Part of the shipworthy plugin — 66 skills, 7 commands, 3 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it when starting or examining a project, generating architecture rules, detecting technology changes, and recording important design decisions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/vimalk0703/shipworthy/architecture-awareness
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add Vimalk0703/shipworthy --skill architecture-awareness
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Vimalk0703/shipworthy

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install shipworthy, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 66 skills, 7 commands, 3 hooks.

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Per session 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,925 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 $0.00041 $0.02925
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.01463
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00585
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00293

Measured 10d ago against content hash 6cabc5f405aa, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

architecture-awareness 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.

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/core/architecture-awareness/SKILL.md · 296 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 296 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Architecture Awareness

Purpose

This skill solves the critical problem of architectural amnesia — when AI coding assistants forget project constraints between sessions. It generates and maintains an architecture specification that acts as a persistent, enforceable contract.

When This Skill Activates

  1. No architecture spec exists — first interaction with a new project
  2. User runs /scaffold — explicit regeneration request
  3. New technology detected — package.json/requirements.txt changes
  4. Architectural decision made — during brainstorming, a decision warrants documentation

User Tier Detection

The session-start hook detects a project's maturity tier based on these signals. Architecture awareness should adapt its behavior to the detected tier.

Tier Signals

Signal How to Detect What It Means
Has code package.json, requirements.txt, go.mod, Cargo.toml, pom.xml, setup.py, pyproject.toml exist Project has been initialized with a language/framework
Has tests tests/, __tests__/, test/, spec/ directories exist, or files matching *.test.*, *.spec.*, test_*.py, *_test.go Project has some test coverage
Has CI .github/workflows/, .gitlab-ci.yml, .circleci/, Jenkinsfile, .travis.yml, .buildkite/ exist Project has automated quality checks
Has architecture .shipworthy/architecture.md exists Project has documented constraints

Tier Definitions

  • Builder (no code OR no tests): Focus on getting working code first. Architecture spec should be lightweight — just Project Identity and 3-5 Mandatory Rules. Do not overwhelm with sections the project is not ready for yet.
  • Maker (code + tests, no CI/architecture): Standard architecture spec with all sections. Recommend CI setup as part of architecture generation.
  • Engineer (code + tests + CI/architecture): Full architecture spec with strict rules. Include Quality Gate Levels and Performance Budgets sections.

Read the full file on GitHub · 296 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. 10d ago First seen · 296 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A 6cabc5f405aa

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architecture-awareness is a skill published in the GitHub repository Vimalk0703/shipworthy (7 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 2,925 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 2026-08-31.

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