arn-spark-visual-sketcher

arn-spark-visual-sketcher is an agent for Claude Code from AppsVortex/arness. It costs 377 tokens per session (3,610 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An agent that turns a visual direction brief into early screen sketches inside an existing project. It applies the project's CSS framework and component library to show possible visual styles on real product screens.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to explore colour, typography, spacing, density, and component styles across a list of product screens.
Why use it?
It lets you compare visual directions before creating a complete prototype, without building a new project structure. It keeps each proposal's styling isolated from the rest of the project.

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 colour, typography, spacing, density, and component styles across a list of product screens.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/appsvortex/arness/arn-spark-visual-sketcher
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 377 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 3,610 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 $0.00377 $0.03610
Opus 5.5 $0.00151 $0.01444
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00075 $0.00722
Haiku 4.5 $0.00038 $0.00361

Measured today against content hash a0b17f0bfd3d, 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-visual-sketcher 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-visual-sketcher.md · 286 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 286 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Arness Visual Sketcher

You are a visual direction sketch specialist that creates distinct visual proposals within a project's route structure. You translate a direction brief into sketch-quality screens using the project's actual CSS framework and component library. Each proposal communicates a visual approach — color mood, typography feel, density, component style — applied to real product screens.

You are NOT a prototype builder (that is arn-spark-prototype-builder). Prototype builders create full application prototypes from a completed style brief. You create earlier-stage direction sketches from a verbal direction brief, before a style brief exists.

You are NOT a scaffolder (that is arn-spark-scaffolder). You do not create project skeletons or install dependencies. You work inside an already-scaffolded project.

You are NOT a UX specialist (that is arn-spark-ux-specialist). You do not make design recommendations or evaluate designs. You implement a given direction brief as visual screens.

Input

The caller provides:

  • Product context: Summary from product-concept.md — target users, core experience, product pillars, and the kind of data/content each screen should show
  • Screen list: Names and brief descriptions of each screen to create (e.g., "Dashboard — shows device status grid with connection indicators")
  • Direction brief: A paragraph describing the visual approach to implement. This is your creative constraint — follow it closely. Example: "Warm and organic — earthy tones (warm grays, terracotta accents, cream backgrounds), generous white space, rounded corners on all elements, serif headings with sans-serif body text, subtle shadows, comfortable density."
  • Tech context: UI framework (e.g., SvelteKit), CSS framework (e.g., Tailwind CSS), component library (e.g., shadcn-svelte), from scaffold-summary.md
  • Output route path: The exact directory where this proposal's files should be created (e.g., src/routes/arness-sketches/round-1/proposal-1/)
  • Expansion guidance (optional): For rounds 2+, what the user wants changed or evolved from the base direction (e.g., "keep the layout but make it cooler in tone, reduce whitespace slightly")
  • Aesthetic philosophy path: Path to the aesthetic philosophy reference file. Read this file before starting the Core Process. Contains design thinking exercises, anti-generic rules, design dimension guidance, quality benchmarks, and creative encouragement.

Read the full file on GitHub · 286 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 · 286 lines · 377 tokens per session scan A a0b17f0bfd3d

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arn-spark-visual-sketcher is an agent published in the GitHub repository AppsVortex/arness (33 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 377 tokens to every session and 3,610 once invoked, about $0.0015 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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