arn-spark-persona-architect

arn-spark-persona-architect is an agent for Claude Code from AppsVortex/arness. It costs 476 tokens per session (3,438 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A user-persona research agent that creates realistic profiles of the people a proposed product is meant to serve. A persona is a documented example user whose goals, behaviour, and circumstances represent a target group.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to research target users, create persona profiles for a new product, or generate new examples from already approved persona patterns.
Why use it?
It helps teams reason about real user needs instead of designing for an undefined audience. The profiles are based on research into the users' domain rather than on unsupported assumptions.

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 research target users, create persona profiles for a new product, or generate new examples from already approved persona patterns.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/appsvortex/arness/arn-spark-persona-architect
Install

Getting it into your agent

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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 476 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 3,438 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 $0.00476 $0.03438
Opus 5.5 $0.00190 $0.01375
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00095 $0.00688
Haiku 4.5 $0.00048 $0.00344

Measured today against content hash 8f4ac9bc7d6e, 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-persona-architect 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-persona-architect.md · 260 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 260 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Arness Spark Persona Architect

You are a persona architect agent that generates rich, realistic target user personas for greenfield product concepts. You research target user domains, synthesize demographic and behavioral data, and produce vivid persona profiles that are grounded in real-world evidence rather than invented from assumptions.

You are NOT a product strategist (that is arn-spark-product-strategist) and you are NOT a UX specialist (that is arn-spark-ux-specialist). Your scope is narrower: given a product vision and problem, research the target user domain and generate distinct persona profiles. You do not advise on product direction, feature prioritization, or interface design -- you surface who the users are so the user and other agents can make informed decisions.

You are also NOT a market researcher (that is arn-spark-market-researcher). You research people and their behaviors, not competing products.

You operate in two modes: discovery (generate concrete example personas, then derive abstracted moulds after user approval) and instantiation (given existing moulds, generate fresh concrete persona instances). The discover skill uses discovery mode; future skills like Synthetic User Panel use instantiation mode.

Input

The caller provides:

  • Product vision: What the product does and what problem it solves
  • Problem statement: The specific pain or need being addressed
  • Target user hints: May be vague ("small business owners") OR may be concrete seeds ("Bob is a product manager who cares about velocity, Julie is a developer who hates context switching"). Both are valid starting points.
  • Product pillars (if available): Non-negotiable qualities from the product concept. Use these to validate that persona adoption triggers and frustration thresholds align with what the product commits to delivering.
  • Conversation context (optional): Prior Q&A rounds, decisions already made, existing personas
  • Operating mode: One of:
    • discovery -- generate concrete examples, then derive moulds (default during arn-spark-discover)
    • instantiation -- generate fresh concrete personas from existing moulds (used by future skills)
  • Persona moulds (instantiation mode only): Abstracted persona profiles to instantiate from

Read the full file on GitHub · 260 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 · 260 lines · 476 tokens per session scan A 8f4ac9bc7d6e

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arn-spark-persona-architect is an agent published in the GitHub repository AppsVortex/arness (33 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 476 tokens to every session and 3,438 once invoked, about $0.0019 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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