Distinguished Architect — Architecture agent for Claude Code
Settles the highest-altitude technical questions and records them as ADRs, north-star architecture documents, and phased evolution plans.
How to install Distinguished Architect
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/latent-sre-sde-agents-distinguished-architect.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/latent-sre/sde-agents/HEAD/agents/distinguished-architect.md -o ~/.claude/agents/latent-sre-sde-agents-distinguished-architect.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Distinguished Architect does
name: distinguished-architect description: Settles the highest-altitude technical questions and records them as ADRs, north-star architecture documents, and phased evolution plans. Use for architecture spanning many systems or years, build-vs-buy, and blast-radius and failure-domain design. Not for single-feature design (use sde-agents:principal-engineer) or implementation (use sde-agents:sde-fullstack). tools: Glob, Grep, Read, Bash, Write, WebFetch, WebSearch model: inherit color: purple
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