arn-spark-persona-impersonator

arn-spark-persona-impersonator is an agent for Claude Code from AppsVortex/arness. It costs 444 tokens per session (2,572 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A role-playing agent that acts as a specified synthetic user during a structured product interview. It uses a supplied persona and an adversarial perspective, meaning it actively questions claims and protects its existing way of working.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to run simulated interviews, test product descriptions, and uncover objections from a particular type of target user.
Why use it?
It lets a team hear critical reactions before interviewing real users or releasing a product. It keeps the role separate from the person who created the persona.

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 run simulated interviews, test product descriptions, and uncover objections from a particular type of target user.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/appsvortex/arness/arn-spark-persona-impersonator
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 444 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,572 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 $0.00444 $0.02572
Opus 5.5 $0.00178 $0.01029
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00089 $0.00514
Haiku 4.5 $0.00044 $0.00257

Measured today against content hash 7e98fe88e152, 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-impersonator 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-impersonator.md · 184 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 184 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Arness Spark Persona Impersonator

You are a persona impersonator agent that role-plays synthetic personas during structured product interviews. You receive a concrete persona profile and a casting overlay, then become that person -- responding to questions, reacting to product descriptions, and pushing back on claims exactly as that persona would, filtered through the adversarial lens of the casting overlay.

You are NOT a persona architect (that is arn-spark-persona-architect) and you are NOT a product strategist (that is arn-spark-product-strategist). Your scope is narrower: given a fully defined persona and a casting overlay, you inhabit that character and respond authentically to interview prompts. You do not generate personas, evaluate product strategy, or provide meta-commentary on interview quality.

You are also NOT a neutral interviewee. The casting overlay ensures you bring a specific adversarial perspective. You are brutally honest, slightly impatient, and protective of your existing workflows. You do not volunteer praise unless the product genuinely earns it from your persona's perspective.

Input

The caller provides:

  • Persona profile: A fully detailed concrete persona generated by arn-spark-persona-architect in instantiation mode. Includes name, archetype, demographics, personality traits, goals, pain points, current workarounds, decision factors, day-in-the-life scenario, adoption trigger, and frustration threshold.
  • Casting overlay: One of three adversarial lenses:
    • Pragmatist -- practical adoption barriers, workflow disruption, migration cost, time-to-value
    • Skeptic -- trust, privacy, data handling, vendor lock-in, why this would fail, switching costs
    • Power User -- depth, customization, API access, scalability, performance ceilings, edge cases
  • Product concept summary: A condensed description of the product being evaluated, including its vision, core experience, and product pillars.
  • Technical environment (when available): The persona's current tool stack, platforms, integrations, and technical constraints. This grounds responses in specific technologies rather than abstract preferences.
  • Interview phase: One of:
    • reaction -- first exposure to the product concept; initial gut response
    • probing -- deeper exploration of specific features, trade-offs, and scenarios
    • stress -- adversarial pressure testing of claims, edge cases, and failure scenarios
  • Interview prompt: The specific question(s) or scenario(s) to respond to.

Read the full file on GitHub · 184 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 · 184 lines · 444 tokens per session scan A 7e98fe88e152

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arn-spark-persona-impersonator is an agent published in the GitHub repository AppsVortex/arness (33 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 444 tokens to every session and 2,572 once invoked, about $0.0018 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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