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Dev tools · July 6, 2026

Archlint

Architectural guardrails for coding with AI agents.

Archlint launched on July 6, 2026 with 3 votes, #8,766 of 24,623 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches.

What it does

Archlint checks every edit your AI agent makes against the layer rules you declared — the instant a violation happens, still inside the loop. One Python script, stdlib only, no LLM in the hot path.

The architectural seatbelt for coding with AI. Declare your layers in CLAUDE.md , AGENTS.md , or a dedicated ARCHITECTURE.md , and every edit the agent makes is checked against your rules — the instant a violation happens, still inside the loop. You declare the project's layers — ui , api , repo , db — and the dependency rules between them. Every allowed edge lets the light through; every forbidden edge is frosted glass. Archlint reads the imports of each edit and checks them against the facade you drew. With no blueprint it does nothing — so it never breaks anyone's setup. The analysis runs after the architecture has already rotted. Drift piles up across the 40 tool-calls of the session.…from archlint.pro

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