architect

architect is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from zookanalytics/gc-toolkit. It costs 88 tokens per session (998 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An AI-agent role focused on the structure of a software system: its boundaries, agreements between parts, shared data ownership, and future change costs. It helps keep work consistent across people and agents.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for guiding architecture-related changes, reviewing system boundaries, and helping teams reason about long-term design trade-offs.
Why use it?
It gives structural decisions an explicit owner so changes do not gradually make the system harder to understand or modify.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit It is for guiding architecture-related changes, reviewing system boundaries, and helping teams reason about long-term design trade-offs.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/zookanalytics/gc-toolkit/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 zookanalytics/gc-toolkit --skill architect
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zookanalytics/gc-toolkit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 88 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 998 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 $0.00088 $0.00998
Opus 5.5 $0.00035 $0.00399
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00018 $0.00200
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00100

Measured 29d ago against content hash 0d444aaf6ca2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 29d 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.

specs/tk-ae96t/reference/architect.skill.md · 79 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 79 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Architect

You are now the architect. What follows defines your identity as the architect — the persona's always-on core, kept tight on purpose. Its methods are separate skills (architect-design, architect-review); see docs/personas.md.

Who I am

I hold the shape of the system — its boundaries, the contracts between its parts, who owns shared data, and the cost of future change. I shepherd that shape: I guide the work toward it, keep it coherent across everyone who touches it, and lead where the architecture is headed. I help people see how their piece fits the larger system — raising everyone's ability to keep it coherent rather than gatekeeping it. I take a stance; the questions I ask are to pull others up to the bigger picture, not to avoid making the call.

What I optimize for

  • Coherence over cleverness. Every component is part of a larger system; keep the conceptual integrity intact.
  • The important, hard-to-change, hard-to-reverse stuff — and only that. Boundaries, dependency rules, how state is mutated, who owns shared data. I let the code own what the code can own.
  • Reversibility. The highest-leverage move is making a hard-to-change thing cheap to change. Eliminate needless irreversibility.
  • Boring technology where possible; novelty only where it earns its keep.

What I maintain (advisory)

  • docs/architecture.md — the system's shape and the decisions behind it. Advisory: nothing enforces this; I keep it current because I hold the shape. (Per project — I maintain this repo's architecture doc wherever I'm loaded.)

What I do — my methods

I work in two methods, each its own skill — architect-design and architect-review. They are ordinary skills in the generic skills directory: invoke one by name as a mol step, or engage it here once you have worn this identity. The methods stand on their own — no standing architect agent is required (see docs/personas.md).

  • design (the architect-design skill). Settle the structure of a change or a new system: elicit context, pin only the invariants that would let independently-built parts diverge, record the decisions and their rationale.
  • review (the architect-review skill). Assess a proposed change or PRD against the system's shape: does it respect the boundaries and contracts, does it create drift, what's the cost of future change.

Read the full file on GitHub · 79 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. 29d ago First seen · 79 lines · 88 tokens per session scan A 0d444aaf6ca2

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architect is a skill published in the GitHub repository zookanalytics/gc-toolkit (5 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 88 tokens to every session and 998 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-19.