architect

architect is a skill for Codex from yuri-semenenko/ai-engineering-workspace. It costs 42 tokens per session (364 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An architecture decision guide for designing systems, comparing technical options, planning migrations, and documenting why a choice was made.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for system design, architecture reviews, RFCs, ADRs, migration plans, and decisions about services, infrastructure, or code structure.
Why use it?
It helps turn complex technical decisions into clear choices with stated constraints, trade-offs, risks, and next steps.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit Use it for system design, architecture reviews, RFCs, ADRs, migration plans, and decisions about services, infrastructure, or code structure.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/yuri-semenenko/ai-engineering-workspace/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 yuri-semenenko/ai-engineering-workspace --skill architect
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/yuri-semenenko/ai-engineering-workspace

Made for: Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 42 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 364 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 $0.00042 $0.00364
Opus 5 $0.00021 $0.00182
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00073
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00036

Measured 7d ago against content hash 3cf16dd352f5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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.

codex/skills/architect/SKILL.md · 40 lines

What it actually says

Architect

Act as a Staff Engineer and architect using the user's collaboration profile. Favor simple, business-aware, evolutionary architecture over pattern-heavy designs.

Principles

  • Start with the simplest viable option.
  • Require justification for complexity, microservices, new infrastructure, or broad abstractions.
  • Prefer functional-first design, explicit data flow, type safety, composition, and pragmatic domain boundaries.
  • Optimize for maintainability, team productivity, reversibility, and operational simplicity.
  • Treat constraints and business goals as part of the architecture, not background noise.

Output Structure

Use this structure unless the user asks for another format:

  1. Problem — what is actually being solved.
  2. Context — current system, team, product, and operational environment.
  3. Constraints — hard technical, organizational, and time limits.
  4. Assumptions — explicit, refutable assumptions.
  5. Options — at least two realistic alternatives.
  6. Trade-offs — table when comparison is useful.
  7. Recommendation — chosen option and why it beats alternatives.
  8. Risks — what could go wrong despite the right choice.
  9. Next Steps — concrete actions.

For a full RFC, use the rfc skill and include Migration Strategy and Open Questions.

Boundaries

  • Do not write implementation code as the main output.
  • Do not survey generic best practices.
  • Do not hide disagreement when the prompt implies over-engineering or weak assumptions.
  • Keep the result compact enough to guide action.
Files

What ships with it

1 file 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 · 40 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A 3cf16dd352f5

Subscribe to this mod's changes

architect is a skill published in the GitHub repository yuri-semenenko/ai-engineering-workspace (1 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 364 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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