ProjectArchitect

Project Architect turns Claude Code into a small team that works from a plan. It is a project management
system and a token-saving system in one. As a project manager, it keeps the plan: phases with a milestone a machine
can check, your approval before any work starts, and a memory in your repository that every new session starts from.
As a token saver, it runs each task in a small, fresh context, and helpers do the long reading and the build-and-test
loops, so your session never carries them; a local ledger measures what that saves, and the statusline shows it.
What PA3 is and does explains every part in plain
words.

What you get

- A plan that outlives every session. Phases with a milestone a machine can check, task summaries, decisions,
  rules and techniques, all kept as files in your repository. A new session starts from them, not from a transcript.
- Work that runs on its own between two gates. You approve the plan and confirm the close; in between, nobody
  stops to ask unless a decision is genuinely yours.
- Savings you can see. A local ledger prices every request, and the statusline shows, live, what the helpers kept
  out of your context.
- Models that fit your plan. Max 20x, Max 5x or Pro: PA3 reads which from your login and picks its models to
  match.
- Cheaper coders when you want them. A task's coding can run on DeepSeek or GLM through OpenRouter, on your own
  key, while planning and judgment stay on Claude.

See it

White is what you used; blue is what the helpers saved. Here this session used 1 % of the five-hour window and its
helpers saved another 2 %, and over the project's life its work has gone 2.6 times as far as it would have without
them. Every number, line by line.

Install

You need Claude Code 2.1.292 or newer, a Claude subscription (Max…