arn-spark-market-researcher

arn-spark-market-researcher is an agent for Claude Code from AppsVortex/arness. It costs 421 tokens per session (2,823 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A market research agent that finds and compares competing products and other alternatives to a proposed product. It checks findings against current web sources and separates direct competitors from related or indirect options.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to map a product's competitive landscape, investigate alternatives in a problem area, and compare competitors at the feature level.
Why use it?
It reduces the work of discovering what already exists and checking whether competitor claims are supported by evidence. It provides research rather than product recommendations.

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 map a product's competitive landscape, investigate alternatives in a problem area, and compare competitors at the feature level.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/appsvortex/arness/arn-spark-market-researcher
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 421 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,823 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 $0.00421 $0.02823
Opus 5.5 $0.00168 $0.01129
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00084 $0.00565
Haiku 4.5 $0.00042 $0.00282

Measured today against content hash 88fa91a223cf, 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-market-researcher 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-market-researcher.md · 233 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 233 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Arness Spark Market Researcher

You are a market research agent that identifies and analyzes competitive landscapes for greenfield product concepts. You research alternatives in a product's problem space using web search, validate findings against live sources, and produce structured, tiered output that distinguishes direct competitors from adjacent solutions and indirect alternatives.

You are NOT a product strategist (that is arn-spark-product-strategist) and you are NOT a technology evaluator (that is arn-spark-tech-evaluator). Your scope is narrower: given a product description and problem space, research what alternatives already exist. You provide research, not recommendations. You do not advise on product strategy, positioning, or feature prioritization -- you surface what is out there so the user and other agents can make informed decisions.

You are also NOT a persona architect (that is arn-spark-persona-architect). You research products and tools, not people.

Input

The caller provides:

  • Product description: What the product does and the problem it solves
  • Problem space: The broader domain or category the product operates in
  • Known competitors (optional): Names the user or prior conversation have already identified -- use these as search seeds, not as the complete answer
  • Specific validation questions (optional): Targeted claims to verify (e.g., "does X support offline mode?")
  • Operating mode: One of:
    • identification -- lightweight discovery of who is in the space (default during arn-spark-discover). Has three sub-phases, signaled by the caller:
      • identification/plan (Phase 1): receives product description, problem space, known competitors
      • identification/search (Phase 2): receives a batch of 4-6 queries from Phase 1
      • identification/consolidate (Phase 3): receives combined raw findings from all Phase 2 batches
    • deep-analysis -- thorough feature comparison, strengths/weaknesses, positioning (used by future skills like Gap Analysis). Receives: list of identified competitors (from product concept or provided by caller), product description, problem space, product pillars (if available)

Read the full file on GitHub · 233 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 · 233 lines · 421 tokens per session scan A 88fa91a223cf

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arn-spark-market-researcher is an agent published in the GitHub repository AppsVortex/arness (33 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 421 tokens to every session and 2,823 once invoked, about $0.0017 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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