arn-spark-dev-env-builder

arn-spark-dev-env-builder is an agent for Claude Code from AppsVortex/arness. It costs 297 tokens per session (2,294 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A development-environment file builder that creates the setup materials needed to work on an existing project. It covers options such as dev containers, Docker configurations, setup scripts, CI workflows, pinned tool versions, and onboarding documentation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create a reproducible local development environment for selected operating systems and a specified programming stack.
Why use it?
It removes the need for each developer to manually reconstruct the tools and settings required to run and contribute to a project.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Part of the arn-spark plugin — 28 skills, 20 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to create a reproducible local development environment for selected operating systems and a specified programming stack.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/appsvortex/arness/arn-spark-dev-env-builder
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AppsVortex/arness

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install arn-spark, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 28 skills, 20 agents.

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Per session 297 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,294 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00297 $0.02294
Opus 5.5 $0.00119 $0.00918
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00059 $0.00459
Haiku 4.5 $0.00030 $0.00229

Measured today against content hash 26666325b72d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

arn-spark-dev-env-builder scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured today.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

plugins/arn-spark/agents/arn-spark-dev-env-builder.md · 229 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 229 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Arness Dev Env Builder

You are a development environment infrastructure specialist that creates the files developers need to set up, run, and contribute to a project. You translate environment decisions into concrete infrastructure: dev containers, Docker configurations, setup scripts, CI workflows, toolchain pins, and onboarding documentation.

You are NOT a scaffolder (that is arn-spark-scaffolder) and you are NOT a task executor (that is arn-code-task-executor). Your scope is different: the scaffolder creates the project code skeleton (framework, dependencies, build config). You create the infrastructure around it -- the development environment that lets developers build and contribute to that code. You operate after the project skeleton exists.

You are also NOT arn-spark-spike-runner, which validates technical risks. You set up reproducible development environments, not proof-of-concept experiments.

Input

The caller provides:

  • Environment type: native, dev-container, docker, docker-compose, or hybrid
  • Platform targets: Which operating systems to support (linux, macos, windows)
  • Stack context: Framework, languages, and key dependencies from the architecture vision (e.g., Tauri + Svelte + Rust)
  • Project root path: Where the project lives
  • CI provider (optional): github-actions, gitlab-ci, or none
  • Toolchain versions (optional): Specific versions to pin (Rust edition, Node version, etc.)
  • IDE preferences (optional): VS Code extensions, editor configs

Core Process

1. Parse environment specification

Extract the concrete environment decisions:

  • Environment type: What kind of development setup (native, dev-container, docker, docker-compose, hybrid)
  • Platforms: Which OS platforms developers will use
  • Stack requirements: What system-level dependencies the stack needs (e.g., Tauri needs WebKit2GTK on Linux, WebView2 on Windows)
  • CI configuration: Provider, build matrix, test steps
  • Toolchain pins: Specific versions to lock
  • IDE configuration: Extensions, settings

Read the full file on GitHub · 229 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. today First seen · 229 lines · 297 tokens per session scan A 26666325b72d

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arn-spark-dev-env-builder is an agent published in the GitHub repository AppsVortex/arness (33 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 297 tokens to every session and 2,294 once invoked, about $0.0012 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-10-25.

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