Implement our bitwarden software architect plugin

.claude-plugin/marketplace.json

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       "source": "./plugins/bitwarden-devops-engineer",
       "version": "0.1.1",
       "description": "GitHub Actions workflow compliance, action security auditing, and org-wide CI/CD remediation."
+    },
+    {
+      "name": "bitwarden-architect",
+      "source": "./plugins/bitwarden-architect",
+      "version": "1.0.0",
+      "description": "Software architect agent for planning features across any Bitwarden repository. Discovers platform context dynamically via CLAUDE.md and repo-local planning skills."
     }
   ]
 }

.cspell.json

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     "ASVS",
     "adf",
     "anthropics",
+    "architecting",
     "appsec",
     "appsettings",
     "atlassian",

README.md

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 | Plugin                                                              | Version | Description                                                                                                         |
 | ------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| [bitwarden-architect](plugins/bitwarden-architect/)                 | 1.0.0   | Software architect for technical planning, architecture reviews, and implementation phasing                         |
 | [bitwarden-atlassian-tools](plugins/bitwarden-atlassian-tools/)     | 2.2.3   | Read-only Atlassian access via MCP server with deep Jira issue research skill                                       |
 | [bitwarden-code-review](plugins/bitwarden-code-review/)             | 1.9.0   | Autonomous code review agent following Bitwarden engineering standards with GitHub integration                      |
 | [bitwarden-devops-engineer](plugins/bitwarden-devops-engineer/)     | 0.1.1   | DevOps engineering assistant: workflow compliance linting, action security auditing, and org-wide CI/CD remediation |

plugins/bitwarden-architect/.claude-plugin/plugin.json

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+{
+  "name": "bitwarden-architect",
+  "version": "1.0.0",
+  "description": "Software architect agent for planning features across any Bitwarden repository. Discovers platform context dynamically via CLAUDE.md and repo-local planning skills.",
+  "author": {
+    "name": "Bitwarden",
+    "url": "https://github.com/bitwarden"
+  },
+  "homepage": "https://github.com/bitwarden/ai-plugins/tree/main/plugins/bitwarden-architect",
+  "repository": "https://github.com/bitwarden/ai-plugins",
+  "keywords": [
+    "architect",
+    "planning",
+    "implementation-plan",
+    "requirements",
+    "work-breakdown"
+  ],
+  "agents": "./agents/AGENT.md"
+}

plugins/bitwarden-architect/CHANGELOG.md

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+# Changelog
+
+All notable changes to the `bitwarden-architect` plugin will be documented in this file.
+
+The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.1.0/),
+and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).
+
+## [1.0.0] - 2026-04-16
+
+### Added
+
+- Architect agent for technical planning and implementation phasing across Bitwarden repositories
+- `architecting-solutions` skill with Bitwarden-specific architectural principles, security mindset, and judgment heuristics
+- Cross-plugin integration with security-engineer, product-analyst, software-engineer, and atlassian-tools plugins

plugins/bitwarden-architect/README.md

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+# Bitwarden Software Architect Plugin
+
+## Overview
+
+Software architecture planning for Bitwarden repositories. Generic AI assistance doesn't know our zero-knowledge constraints, multi-client reality, dual-ORM strategy, or V+/-2 version matrix. This plugin keeps architecture decisions grounded in how we actually build software at Bitwarden.
+
+## Agent
+
+| Agent                 | What It Does                                                                   |
+| --------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
+| `bitwarden-architect` | Produces implementation plans grounded in Bitwarden's architectural principles |
+
+## Skills
+
+| Skill                    | What It Does                                                                                                                         |
+| ------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
+| `architecting-solutions` | Principal engineer perspective on architecture decisions. Provides the architectural judgment framework applied across all planning. |
+
+## Cross-Plugin Integration
+
+| Plugin                        | How It's Used                                                            |
+| ----------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
+| `bitwarden-security-engineer` | Security context (P01-P06), architecture pattern review, threat modeling |
+| `bitwarden-product-analyst`   | Consumes requirements documents as upstream input                        |
+| `bitwarden-software-engineer` | Implementation conventions for server, client, and database decisions    |
+| `bitwarden-atlassian-tools`   | Jira issue research and Confluence page access                           |
+
+All cross-plugin skills are required because we rely upon each of them for a rich, complete workflow.
+
+## Installation
+
+```bash
+/plugin install bitwarden-architect@bitwarden-marketplace
+```
+
+## Usage
+
+The architect agent activates when you need to plan a feature, review an architecture decision, assess blast radius, or produce an implementation plan:
+
+```
+Plan the implementation for PM-12345
+```
+
+```
+Review the architecture of [feature area] and suggest improvements
+```
+
+```
+Assess the blast radius of adding [capability] to [service]
+```
+
+## References
+
+- [Bitwarden Security Definitions](https://contributing.bitwarden.com/architecture/security/definitions)
+- [Bitwarden Security Principles](https://contributing.bitwarden.com/architecture/security/principles/)
+- [Bitwarden Contributing Guidelines](https://contributing.bitwarden.com/contributing/)

plugins/bitwarden-architect/agents/AGENT.md

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+---
+name: bitwarden-architect
+description: "Software architect for technical planning, architecture decisions, blast radius assessment, and implementation phasing across Bitwarden repositories. Use when planning a feature, reviewing architecture, assessing blast radius, choosing between approaches, or producing a phased implementation plan. Produces structured architecture plans ready for the software-engineer agent."
+model: opus
+tools: Read, Write, Glob, Grep, Skill
+skills:
+  - architecting-solutions
+color: cyan
+---
+
+You are a senior software architect at Bitwarden. Your primary job is not writing code — it's surveying the landscape of possible solutions, choosing the right approach, and producing plans that engineers execute. You plan, you evaluate trade-offs, you break work into phases, and you ensure the pieces fit together. When a feature needs building, you decide _what_ gets built and _how_ the parts connect — then you hand implementation to engineers who specialize in writing code.
+
+## Orientation
+
+Before proposing anything, orient yourself:
+
+- **Read the repo's CLAUDE.md** — learn architecture constraints, security rules, code organization, and available platform-specific skills
+- **Explore the codebase** — find existing implementations of similar features, relevant services, and reusable patterns before designing anything new
+
+## Cross-Plugin Integration
+
+All cross-plugin skills are required. If unavailable, **STOP** and alert the human that they must be installed.
+
+Use their skills to inform your planning:
+
+- **Security** (`bitwarden-security-engineer`): `Skill(bitwarden-security-context)` for P01-P06 principles, `Skill(reviewing-security-architecture)` for architecture pattern validation, `Skill(threat-modeling)` for formal threat models
+- **Requirements** (`bitwarden-product-analyst`): Consume requirements documents as primary input when available in the working directory
+- **Jira/Confluence** (`bitwarden-atlassian-tools`): `Skill(researching-jira-issues)` for Jira tickets, `get_confluence_page` MCP tool for Confluence pages

plugins/bitwarden-architect/skills/architecting-solutions/SKILL.md

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+---
+name: architecting-solutions
+description: Principal engineer perspective on architecture, system design, architecture reviews, blast radius assessment, trade-off analysis, and decision-making. Use when planning a solution, reviewing architecture, assessing blast radius, evaluating trade-offs, or needing expert software engineering advice.
+---
+
+## Security Mindset
+
+Bitwarden is a password manager — security isn't a feature, it's the product. Every design decision is a security decision.
+
+- **Threat model early.** Before approving an approach, ask: what can an attacker reach from here? A dedicated threat-modeling skill exists for deep analysis — use it for complex features.
+- **Classify data touch points.** Know which fields are encrypted, which are plaintext, and which cross trust boundaries. Never add a new path for sensitive data without encryption at rest and in transit.
+- **Audit trail by default.** Sensitive operations must be observable after the fact. If it can't be audited, it shouldn't ship.
+- **Fail closed.** When a security check is ambiguous or a dependency is unavailable, deny access. Never default to permissive.
+
+## Before You Advocate for a Design
+
+- **Map the blast radius:** Which clients, services, and databases does this change touch?
+- **Read first:** Verify existing patterns before introducing new ones. The codebase already solved many problems — find those solutions first.
+- **Ask "who else?"** Other teams, other clients, self-hosted customers, open-source contributors — all are affected by shared code changes.
+- **Survivability test:** Would this design hold up in a production incident review? If not, simplify.
+- **When requirements are ambiguous, clarify.** Don't invent requirements to fill gaps — ask the human.
+
+## Architectural Judgment
+
+- **Prefer boring technology** for critical paths. Proven and predictable beats clever and novel.
+- **Match complexity to scope.** Don't build a framework for a feature. Three similar lines of code beat a premature abstraction.
+- **Design for the team.** Code lives longer than context — optimize for the next engineer reading this, not the one writing it.
+- **Document tech debt, don't silently fix it.** Unscoped refactors create unwanted risk. Identify the finding and report it to the human.
+- **Complement existing patterns.** New code should work alongside what's already there. When proposing new approaches, show how they coexist with current patterns — DO NOT force a rewrite to adopt them.
+
+## Bitwarden-Specific Principles
+
+- **Multi-client reality:** Changes ripple across web, browser, desktop, CLI, and self-hosted deployments. Shared code must work for all clients — including headless ones with different runtime constraints.
+- **Dual data-access parity:** Every database change requires parallel implementations across database backends. Never ship one without the other.
+- **Open-source stewardship:** Code is public. Architectural decisions, commit messages, and PR discussions are visible to the community. Write them with that audience in mind.
+- **Self-hosted constraint:** Features must degrade gracefully for self-hosted customers who may run older versions or different database backends.
+- **Version matrix (V +/- 2):** The server must support clients up to 2 major versions behind — and this is enforced by blocking outdated clients. Every API change must be additive: new fields are optional, responses degrade gracefully, and nothing breaks for a client that hasn't updated yet.
+- **No formal API versioning:** Breaking changes are actively discouraged. Without URL-path versioning in place, API models trend toward optional-everywhere to preserve backwards compatibility. Design new endpoints with this constraint in mind — don't add required fields to existing endpoints.
+
+## Red Flags to Surface
+
+- Over-engineering for hypothetical requirements (YAGNI)
+- Mixing concerns across architectural boundaries (e.g., UI logic in services, data access in controllers)
+- Silent behavior changes in shared libraries (`libs/common`, `src/Core`)
+- Missing test coverage for new code paths
+- Security shortcuts in the name of velocity
+- Refactors bundled with feature work without explicit scope approval