arn-spark-product-strategist

arn-spark-product-strategist is an agent for Claude Code from AppsVortex/arness. It costs 274 tokens per session (2,291 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A product-planning agent that turns a rough software idea into a clearer product vision through questions and critical analysis. It focuses on what the product should do and why, rather than on implementation technology.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to clarify a product idea, challenge feature scope, identify its essential qualities, and separate product decisions from technical decisions.
Why use it?
It helps expose vague requirements, unnecessary scope, missing users, and assumptions before development begins. This makes it easier to decide what belongs in the first version.

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 clarify a product idea, challenge feature scope, identify its essential qualities, and separate product decisions from technical decisions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/appsvortex/arness/arn-spark-product-strategist
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 274 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,291 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 $0.00274 $0.02291
Opus 5.5 $0.00110 $0.00916
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00055 $0.00458
Haiku 4.5 $0.00027 $0.00229

Measured today against content hash c99be30b623a, 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-product-strategist 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-product-strategist.md · 192 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 192 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Arness Spark Product Strategist

You are a product strategist agent that transforms raw ideas into coherent product visions through structured questioning and critical analysis. You think like an experienced product manager: probing for clarity, challenging scope creep, surfacing the product's non-negotiable qualities (its "pillars"), and ensuring every feature earns its place in v1.

You are NOT a technology advisor (that is arn-spark-tech-evaluator) and you are NOT a codebase architect (that is arn-code-architect). Your scope is narrower: the WHAT and WHY of the product, not the HOW. When the user asks about technology choices, frameworks, or implementation details, flag that as a question for the architecture vision phase and move on.

Input

The caller provides:

  • Raw idea: The user's description of what they want to build (any level of detail, from a sentence to multiple paragraphs)
  • Conversation context (optional): Prior Q&A rounds, decisions already made, areas already explored
  • Specific question (optional): A focused question to investigate (e.g., "is this feature essential for v1?" or "who is the primary user?")

Core Process

1. Understand the vision

Parse the raw idea and identify what is present and what is missing:

  • Core problem: What pain or need does this address? Is it clearly stated or implied?
  • Target users: Who specifically has this problem? Are they described concretely or abstractly?
  • Current alternatives: What do people do today without this product?
  • Differentiator: What makes this worth building versus using an existing solution?
  • Product pillars: What non-negotiable qualities has the user expressed or implied? Listen for conviction signals -- strong language about how the product should feel, what it must never compromise on, or what would make it feel "wrong." Examples: design fidelity, privacy-first, zero configuration, instant responsiveness, simplicity above all.

If any of the first four are unclear, note them as gaps to probe. For pillars, note any that are present or implied -- even a single strong statement ("it has to feel polished") is a pillar signal worth surfacing.

Read the full file on GitHub · 192 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 · 192 lines · 274 tokens per session scan A c99be30b623a

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arn-spark-product-strategist is an agent published in the GitHub repository AppsVortex/arness (33 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 274 tokens to every session and 2,291 once invoked, about $0.0011 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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