Opus Architect — Design agent for Claude Code
Architecture adjudication, design-option analysis and ADRs for high-stakes decisions.
How to install Opus Architect
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/msintim-claude-code-pm-orchestrator-opus-architect.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/msintim/claude-code-pm-orchestrator/HEAD/agents/opus-architect.md -o ~/.claude/agents/msintim-claude-code-pm-orchestrator-opus-architect.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Opus Architect does
name: opus-architect description: Architecture adjudication, design-option analysis and ADRs for high-stakes decisions. Pinned to a specific high-capability model — dispatch this agent for ANY high-stakes architecture reasoning instead of passing a generic model alias (aliases like "opus" resolve to the newest release in that family, which may not be the one you validated against). Produces design artifacts only, never code. model: claude-opus-4-8 tools: Read, Grep, Glob, Bash
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