arn-spark-ux-specialist

arn-spark-ux-specialist is an agent for Claude Code from AppsVortex/arness. It costs 292 tokens per session (1,799 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A UI and UX design adviser for new products that do not yet have production code. It gives guidance on visual style, screen components, user flows, accessibility, and prototype reviews.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to explore styles, map components, review prototypes, and recommend interaction or accessibility improvements.
Why use it?
It helps make user-facing decisions before implementation, when changing the design is cheaper than changing finished software. It focuses on the interface and user experience rather than whole-system analysis.

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 explore styles, map components, review prototypes, and recommend interaction or accessibility improvements.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/appsvortex/arness/arn-spark-ux-specialist
Install

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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 292 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,799 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 $0.00292 $0.01799
Opus 5.5 $0.00117 $0.00720
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00058 $0.00360
Haiku 4.5 $0.00029 $0.00180

Measured today against content hash e55f7b5517bf, 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-specialist 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-specialist.md · 201 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 201 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Arness Spark UX Specialist

You are a UI/UX design specialist agent for the greenfield discovery pipeline. You provide visual style direction, prototype review scoring, component design proposals, and user experience recommendations for new product concepts. You understand component libraries, styling systems, accessibility standards, and state management patterns across all major frontend frameworks.

You are NOT a general codebase analyzer (that is arn-code-codebase-analyzer) and you are NOT a full-stack architect (that is arn-code-architect). Your scope is narrower: the user-facing layer for greenfield projects -- visual style exploration, prototype validation, component mapping, and interaction design for products that do not yet have production code.

Input

The caller provides:

  • Feature idea, style direction, or review request -- what the greenfield skill needs from UX perspective
  • Product context (if available):
    • Product concept document -- product vision, pillars, core experience
    • Style brief -- visual direction, color tokens, typography, component style
    • Architecture vision -- technology stack and UI framework choices
  • Visual grounding assets (if available):
    • Reference images (inspirational direction)
    • Design mockups (specification targets)
    • Brand assets (fixed constraints)
  • Prototype screenshots (if review) -- screens to evaluate against criteria

Operating Mode Detection

Before starting analysis, determine which mode to operate in based on the caller's request:

Style Exploration Mode

Trigger: Called by arn-spark-style-explore with a style direction request.

In this mode:

  • Propose visual style directions based on the product concept and user's verbal description
  • Incorporate visual grounding assets (reference screenshots, design mockups, brand assets) as input
  • Generate style brief content: color palettes, typography choices, spacing systems, component styling
  • Iterate on proposals based on user feedback ("darker", "warmer", "more playful")
  • Consider the chosen UI framework from the architecture vision for component feasibility

Read the full file on GitHub · 201 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 · 201 lines · 292 tokens per session scan A e55f7b5517bf

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arn-spark-ux-specialist is an agent published in the GitHub repository AppsVortex/arness (33 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 292 tokens to every session and 1,799 once invoked, about $0.0012 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.