architecture-studio

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One plugin of agents, skills, and rules for architects, designers, and AEC professionals — use with Claude Desktop or Claude Code.

Architecture Studio teaches Claude architecture-specific workflows — site analysis, zoning, space programming, specifications, materials research, sustainability, and presentations.

One plugin — architecture-studio v1.3.0 — with 41 skills, 7 agents, 7 rules, and 3 hooks. Built by ALPA.

What's New in 1.3

• One flat plugin. The ten-plugin marketplace is now a single plugin: one install gets every skill, agent, and hook. The old per-plugin taxonomy (Due Diligence, Site Planning, Zoning, …) survives below as documentation groups — nothing to choose at install time.
• Renames: the site history skill is now /site-history (formerly history); the help menu skill is /skills (formerly skills-menu).
• /learn — a guided, resumable course teaching architects Claude Code itself, on a bundled sandbox project (a fictional Brooklyn art museum expansion).

Full history in the CHANGELOG.

Architecture

Architecture Studio (one plugin: architecture-studio)
├── skills/          41 skills — one directory each, flat
│   ├── /studio      ← entry point: describe a task, get routed
│   └── /skills      ← help menu
├── agents/           7 orchestration subagents
├── hooks/            3 event-driven automations (auto-register)
├── rules/            7 cross-cutting conventions (2 hook-enforced, 5 advisory)
└── schema/           shared FF&E product schema (33 columns) + SIF crosswalk

Agents orchestrate skills — they assess your input, choose a path, and exercise judgment; each registers as a native Claude Code subagent. Skills are single-purpose tools invoked with a slash command. Rules are cross-cutting conventions. Hooks are event-driven automations that register automatically when the plugin is enabled.

Quick Start

Install

Claude Desktop: Open Customize → Browse plugins → + → Add marketplace from GitHub → enter AlpacaLabsLLC/skills-for-architects → install Architecture Studio

Claude Code:

claude plugin marketplace add AlpacaLabsLLC/skills-for-architects
claude plugin install architecture-studio@skills-for-architects

That single install loads all 41 skills, all 7 agents, and the 3 hooks.

Use

Type /studio followed by what you need. The router reads your request and hands off to the right agent or skill.

/studio task chair, mesh back, under $800
/studio 123 Main St, Brooklyn NY
/studio I need a space program for 200 people
/studio parse this EPD

Type /skills for the full menu. Or call any skill directly by name (e.g. /environmental-analysis 123 Main St). New to Claude Code entirely? Start with /learn.

Never opened a terminal?

The course starts inside Claude Code, so someone at your office has to get you there once. The whole preflight, suitable for handing to a colleague:

1. Open Terminal — on a Mac: press ⌘-space, type terminal, press Enter. On Windows: install Claude Desktop instead and use its built-in Code panel.
2. Install Claude Code — paste npm install -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code (your IT or a colleague may need to install Node first), or download the desktop app.
3. Launch and log in — type claude, follow the login prompt (uses your existing Claude subscription).
4. Install the plugin — the two commands under Install above.
5. Type /learn — the course takes it from there, including what a terminal even is.

Agents

Agents are the orchestration layer. Describe your task — the agent decides which skills to call, in what order, and what judgment to apply.