Archtype

Archtype 0.1 by Eli Fulkerson is a lightweight command-line utility designed for quick forensic inspection of Windows Portable Executable files. The program parses the COFF header of any supplied .exe and instantly reports whether the binary targets 32-bit, 64-bit or mixed architecture, extracts the exact build timestamp, reveals the presence or absence of debug symbols, and surfaces other header flags that are normally invisible to end-users. Security researchers, system administrators and software packagers routinely embed the tool in automated scripts to vet third-party installers, confirm architecture consistency across deployment bundles, or generate inventory reports that list the bitness of every executable on a machine. Developers also invoke it inside CI pipelines to verify that release builds are correctly marked as 64-bit and stripped of private symbols before publication. Because the utility is fully self-contained and writes only to stdout, it can be piped into grep, awk or PowerShell for further filtering, making it a convenient addition to any diagnostic toolkit. Archtype belongs to the Developer Tools / Debugging category, has reached its first public release at version 0.1, and is distributed as a single zero-dependency executable. The software is available for free on get.nero.com, with downloads provided via trusted Windows package sources such as winget, always delivering the latest version and supporting batch installation of multiple applications.

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