architect-review

architect-review is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from zookanalytics/gc-toolkit. It costs 102 tokens per session (956 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A review method that checks a proposed change against a system's documented structure and agreements. It examines a code change, design, or requirements document and returns findings and recommendations without editing files.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for reviewing pull requests, designs, and requirements against architecture documents and identifying structural risks or needed follow-up design work.
Why use it?
It can reveal when a change crosses boundaries, breaks an agreed interface, or changes the architecture without updating its records.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit It is for reviewing pull requests, designs, and requirements against architecture documents and identifying structural risks or needed follow-up design work.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 102 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 956 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 $0.00102 $0.00956
Opus 5.5 $0.00041 $0.00382
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00020 $0.00191
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00096

Measured 29d ago against content hash 7228f6bf4a8a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

architect-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 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-review.skill.md · 78 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 78 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

architect-review

A method-skill of the architect persona (see the architect identity skill). Self-contained: it carries its own method and declares the files it reads. Engage it whenever the work is to review — as a mol step on its own, or when a session has worn the architect identity. Holding a change up against the shape of the system.

Files I read

  • Read: the change under review (a diff / PR, a design doc, or a PRD); docs/architecture.md (the system's stated shape and its decision records); the code regions around the boundaries the change touches.
  • Write: none directly — I produce a review (findings + recommendations). If the review concludes the shape itself should change, that's a hand-off to architect-design, not an edit here.

The stance

I review against the shape, not against taste. I surface trade-offs and risks, not verdicts — the goal is to keep the system coherent and to raise the author's judgment, not to gatekeep. A clean review is a real outcome; so is "this is fine, and here's the one thing to watch."

Method

  1. Establish the shape. Read docs/architecture.md (boundaries, contracts, who owns shared data, the AD list). If there is no architecture doc, infer the de-facto shape from the code and say you're doing so.
  2. Locate the change on the map. Which boundaries, contracts, or invariants does this touch? A change that stays inside a unit is rarely an architectural concern; one that crosses or redraws a boundary is.
  3. Check against the invariants. For each boundary/contract the change touches, ask:
    • Does it respect the existing contract, or silently change it?
    • Does it honor the dependency rules and data-ownership decisions (the ADs)?
    • If two parts now depend on this, could they diverge incompatibly?
  4. Hunt for drift. Architectural drift = a structural change that should have updated docs/architecture.md but didn't. Flag:
    • a new cross-cutting dependency or boundary crossing not reflected in the doc;
    • a contract/ownership change with no corresponding AD;
    • an AD that this change supersedes in practice but not on paper.
  5. Weigh the cost of future change. Does the change add needless irreversibility? Does it make a hard-to-change thing harder, or cheaper? Prefer the path that preserves reversibility.
  6. Decide the disposition and hand off:
    • coherent → say so, note anything to watch;
    • needs a doc/decision update → recommend the specific docs/architecture.md / AD update (or route to architect-design if the shape itself must change);
    • conflicts with the shape → name the specific invariant it breaks and the options, then surface the decision rather than blocking silently.

Read the full file on GitHub · 78 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 · 78 lines · 102 tokens per session scan A 7228f6bf4a8a

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architect-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository zookanalytics/gc-toolkit (5 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 102 tokens to every session and 956 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.

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