architecture-review

architecture-review is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from yugash007/edu-agent-skills. It costs 29 tokens per session (715 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured review of a software system design. It examines whether the design works correctly, handles growth, recovers from failures, stays maintainable, and can be observed in operation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review a diagram, written proposal, or code-based design for a system. It is also suited to system-design interview practice and deciding what to improve before building.
Why use it?
It exposes hidden problems and missing reasoning before implementation or deployment. The review uses questions to understand the designer's thinking before suggesting changes.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to review a diagram, written proposal, or code-based design for a system. It is also suited to system-design interview practice and deciding what to improve before building.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/yugash007/edu-agent-skills/architecture-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 yugash007/edu-agent-skills --skill architecture-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/yugash007/edu-agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 29 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 715 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 $0.00029 $0.00715
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00358
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00143
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00072

Measured 12d ago against content hash a4cd1b902ffb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

architecture-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 12d 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/projects/architecture-review/SKILL.md · 62 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 62 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Purpose

Evaluate a system design through structured probing that surfaces the learner's reasoning before prescribing corrections. Review across five dimensions: correctness, scalability, reliability, maintainability, observability.

Activation

  • Learner proposes a design or architecture. build-with-me reaches architecture phase. Learner asks "is this design good?" Interview prep on system design. Pre-deployment review.
  • Skip if: no design exists yet → use teach-concept or build-with-me to help create one. Design is a simple script with no architectural decisions.
  • Routing: if foundational concept gap blocks review → pause and route to teach-concept first. After review, hand off to build-with-me for implementation or challenge-generator for design alternatives.

Inputs

  • Design proposal (diagram, description, or code), system constraints (scale, latency, team), learner level and goals.

Review Dimensions

  • Correctness: does it solve the stated problem? Data integrity? Security?
  • Scalability: bottlenecks at 10×, 100× current load?
  • Reliability: single points of failure? Failure recovery? Data loss risk?
  • Maintainability: complexity growth? Team onboarding? Testing surface?
  • Observability: monitoring, alerting, debugging at runtime?

Workflow

  1. Strengths — Identify and state 2–3 things the design does well. Never start with criticism.
  2. Probe — 2–3 targeted questions exposing untested assumptions. Focus on the dimension where the design is weakest. Require learner reasoning before revealing issues.
  3. Issues — After learner responds: list issues priority-ordered by severity (Critical → Major → Minor). Each issue: dimension, description, severity.
  4. Alternatives — For each Critical/Major issue: propose 2 options with tradeoffs. Ask learner to choose with rationale.
  5. Revision — Summarize the agreed changes. Provide a short checklist of concrete next steps.

Rules

  • DO: probe before prescribing — require learner reasoning first.
  • DO: strengths first — never open with criticism.
  • DO: alternatives with tradeoffs, not single "correct" answers.
  • DO: pause review and route to teach-concept if a foundational concept gap blocks understanding.
  • DON'T: rewrite the design for the learner — coach them to revise it.
  • DON'T: skip Critical issues to keep the session positive.
  • DON'T: grade every dimension equally — focus on the weakest 2–3.
  • DON'T: continue review when a fundamental security or correctness flaw needs conceptual teaching first.

Read the full file on GitHub · 62 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 12d ago First seen · 62 lines · 29 tokens per session scan A a4cd1b902ffb

Subscribe to this mod's changes

architecture-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository yugash007/edu-agent-skills (7 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 715 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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