Architect Skills
A Claude Code skills plugin released under MIT by architect Abhinav Bhardwaj that gives the agent real building knowledge. It covers a project from concept to construction documents: theory and concept, programme and typologies, planning and envelope, structure and services, daylight and materials, codes (fire, accessibility, acoustics), sustainability. A base skill, `architect-foundations`, fires on its own on any architecture question and routes to the specialised skill: you never pick a command. Seven Python calculators return actual numbers (areas, a wall's U-value, daylight factor, egress, loads, energy demand, cost). Presented in April with 18 skills, the repository holds 29 since version 1.1.0, which adds regulatory dossiers for ten countries.
Strengths
- Invisible routing: a base skill detects the domain of the question and loads the right skill, no command needed
- Numeric values come out of seven Python calculators, with JSON output to chain them
- Three-layer loading: 18 KB at rest for a 35,000-line knowledge base
- A tooled knowledge base: 28 building typologies, and 15 wall assemblies described layer by layer with U-value and fire rating
- A calculation can be checked: 'egress for a 500-seat auditorium' runs the calculator, which returns four exits minimum, 2,540 mm of total stair width and 61 m of travel distance in a sprinklered building, instead of an explanation of principles
- Two sibling packs by the same author, also MIT, cover the other scales: Urban-Design-Skills-Claude for the city (masterplan, street, public space, zoning) and Claude-skills-for-Computational-Designers for the component (parametric, generative, fabrication, BIM scripting)
Limitations
- A single author, and a scope that already changed size between the announcement and version 1.1.0
- The carousel that spread it points to 'github.com/Amanbh997': the repository actually lives under github.com/Abhinavbwj
- Ten countries covered clause by clause since version 1.1.0 (India, UAE, Saudi Arabia, USA, UK, Germany, Singapore, Japan, China, Australia): France is not among them, so RE2020 and French public-building rules still have to be supplied
- Regulatory references age: a code value must be rechecked against the locally applicable version
Best for
- An architect who wants an assistant that computes a wall, egress or area instead of estimating them
- Studying a model trade skill pack before building your own
- Understanding progressive disclosure on a concrete case, with at-rest size figures