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title: "archibald"
description: "Software architecture quality assessment through structural smell detection, quantitative metrics analysis, antipattern identification, dependency structure evaluation, risk/trade-off analysis, and technical debt measure"
canonical: https://agentpluginsdirectory.com/plugins/archibald
last-updated: 2026-10-12
---

# archibald
Software architecture quality assessment through structural smell detection, quantitative metrics analysis, antipattern identification, dependency structure evaluation, risk/trade-off analysis, and technical debt measurement. Complements SOLID and beyond-SOLID principle checks with architecture-level health diagnostics.
- Slug: archibald
- Publisher: Florian Buetow
- Repository: https://github.com/florianbuetow/codex-plugins
- Manifest: plugins/archibald/plugin.json
- Version: 1.0.1
- License: MIT
- Category (editorial): other
- Skills: 1 (archibald)
- MCP servers: 0
- Stars: 0
- Repository created: 2026-09-10
- Repository last pushed: 2026-10-11
- Publisher type: User
- Listing: https://agentpluginsdirectory.com/plugins/archibald
- Schema: https://agent-plugins.org/schemas/1.0.0/plugin.schema.json

## What archibald does, in the publisher's words

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Software architecture quality assessment through structural smell detection, quantitative metrics analysis, antipattern identification, dependency structure evaluation, risk/trade-off analysis, and technical debt measurement. Complements SOLID and beyond-SOLID principle checks with architecture-level health diagnostics.

Register the repository marketplace with codex plugin marketplace add., then run codex plugin add archibald@florianbuetow-codex-plugins or install it from Florian Buetow Codex Plugins in the Plugins Directory. Invoke its workflows with $.

From the project README, punctuation lightly normalized. Full text: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/florianbuetow/codex-plugins/HEAD/plugins/archibald/README.md