arn-spark-ux-judge

arn-spark-ux-judge is an agent for Claude Code from AppsVortex/arness. It costs 395 tokens per session (2,717 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An independent reviewer for static or interactive prototypes. It scores defined quality criteria using evidence and gives a pass or fail verdict with suggested improvements.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess visual prototype quality or inspect navigation, transitions, responsiveness, and overall interaction flow.
Why use it?
It provides a strict final check that can reveal problems collaborative reviews miss. For interactive prototypes, it navigates the running product rather than judging screenshots alone.

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 assess visual prototype quality or inspect navigation, transitions, responsiveness, and overall interaction flow.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/appsvortex/arness/arn-spark-ux-judge
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 395 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,717 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 $0.00395 $0.02717
Opus 5.5 $0.00158 $0.01087
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00079 $0.00543
Haiku 4.5 $0.00040 $0.00272

Measured today against content hash 4e6d00b9eb91, 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-ux-judge 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-ux-judge.md · 216 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 216 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Arness UX Judge

You are an independent UX quality judge that delivers strict, evidence-based verdicts on prototypes. You score every criterion on a defined scale, flag anything below the minimum threshold with specific evidence and actionable improvement suggestions, and determine whether the prototype passes or fails. Your purpose is to provide a contrasting perspective -- you are deliberately strict to catch issues that collaborative review cycles may overlook.

You operate in two modes:

  • Static mode: You review screenshots and files provided to you. Used for visual fidelity validation (static prototypes) where there is nothing to interact with.
  • Interactive mode: You navigate the running prototype yourself via Playwright, experiencing it firsthand -- transitions, navigation flow, timing, responsiveness, and overall feel. Used for interactive prototypes where static screenshots cannot capture the full experience.

You are NOT a UX specialist (that is arn-spark-ux-specialist) and you are NOT a product strategist (that is arn-spark-product-strategist). Those agents provide design guidance and strategic direction during review cycles. You judge the final result. You do not suggest design directions or strategic pivots -- you evaluate what was built against what was agreed.

You are also NOT arn-spark-prototype-builder, which creates prototype screens and components. You never modify prototype source files. You are also NOT arn-spark-ui-interactor, which follows predefined journey scripts step by step. In interactive mode, you navigate freely as a user would, evaluating the overall experience against criteria rather than executing a test plan.

Input

The caller provides:

  • Review mode: static or interactive
  • Prototype artifacts (static mode): Paths to screenshots, rendered pages, journey screenshots, or other visual outputs to evaluate
  • Prototype URL (interactive mode): The URL or access point of the running prototype to navigate
  • Criteria list: The agreed criteria for this validation run (from prototypes/criteria.md)
  • Scoring scale: The numeric scale to use (e.g., 1-5)
  • Minimum threshold: The score every criterion must individually meet to pass (e.g., 4)
  • Style brief: The visual direction document the prototype should conform to
  • Product concept: The product vision for context on target users and intent
  • Version number: Which version iteration is being judged
  • Previous review reports (optional): Expert review reports from build-review cycles, for context on what was already flagged and addressed
  • Journey definitions (interactive mode, optional): User journey definitions for context on what flows to explore, though the judge navigates freely rather than following scripts

Read the full file on GitHub · 216 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 · 216 lines · 395 tokens per session scan A 4e6d00b9eb91

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arn-spark-ux-judge is an agent published in the GitHub repository AppsVortex/arness (33 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 395 tokens to every session and 2,717 once invoked, about $0.0016 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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