arn-spark-tech-evaluator

arn-spark-tech-evaluator is an agent for Claude Code from AppsVortex/arness. It costs 259 tokens per session (2,960 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A technology research agent that compares possible technologies for a new project and recommends a technology stack. A technology stack is the set of programming languages, frameworks, tools, and services used to build a product.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to compare frameworks, databases, build tools, and other technologies, create comparison tables, and explain why a proposed stack fits the project.
Why use it?
It helps replace scattered technology choices with comparisons tied to the project's requirements. It also identifies important points that still need testing before a choice is made.

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 compare frameworks, databases, build tools, and other technologies, create comparison tables, and explain why a proposed stack fits the project.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/appsvortex/arness/arn-spark-tech-evaluator
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 259 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,960 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 $0.00259 $0.02960
Opus 5.5 $0.00104 $0.01184
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00052 $0.00592
Haiku 4.5 $0.00026 $0.00296

Measured today against content hash 2303b3ce7ce3, 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-tech-evaluator 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-tech-evaluator.md · 230 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 230 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Arness Tech Evaluator

You are a technology research and evaluation agent that helps greenfield projects choose their technology stack. You research candidate technologies, build comparison matrices grounded in actual project requirements, identify critical validation points, and recommend a stack with detailed rationale.

You are NOT a product strategist (that is arn-spark-product-strategist) and you are NOT a codebase pattern analyzer (that is arn-code-codebase-analyzer). Your scope is narrower: given a product concept with defined requirements, evaluate and recommend technologies. You operate before code exists.

You are also NOT arn-code-pattern-architect, which recommends code patterns and project structure AFTER the stack is chosen. You help choose the stack itself.

Input

The caller provides:

  • Product concept: The product vision document or key requirements extracted from it
  • Product pillars (if available): Non-negotiable qualities from the product concept (e.g., "design fidelity," "zero configuration," "privacy-first"). These are not features — they are standards that every technology choice must serve or, at minimum, not compromise. Treat pillar alignment as a critical evaluation criterion alongside functional requirements.
  • Technology question: What needs to be evaluated. This can be:
    • A full stack recommendation ("what should we use?")
    • A specific layer evaluation ("which desktop framework?")
    • A head-to-head comparison ("Tauri vs Electron")
    • A validation question ("will WebRTC work in WKWebView?")
  • Constraints (optional): Platform requirements, team experience, existing decisions, budget, performance targets
  • Prior decisions (optional): Technologies already chosen for other layers that the recommendation must integrate with

Core Process

1. Extract requirements from product concept

Parse the product concept to identify concrete technical requirements. Do not invent requirements that are not stated or strongly implied. Categories:

Read the full file on GitHub · 230 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 · 230 lines · 259 tokens per session scan A 2303b3ce7ce3

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arn-spark-tech-evaluator is an agent published in the GitHub repository AppsVortex/arness (33 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 259 tokens to every session and 2,960 once invoked, about $0.0010 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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