sparc-coord

An agent for coordinating the SPARC software-development method: specification, pseudocode, architecture, refinement, and completion.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to organize a multi-stage development task, route deeper work to specialist agents, and require library or existing-pattern checks before new code is written.
Why use it?
It keeps these stages ordered, checks their outputs against acceptance requirements, and raises uncertainties before work moves forward.

Agent

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/dnyoussef/context-cascade/sparc-coord
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/DNYoussef/context-cascade
Per session 25 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 285 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00025 $0.00285
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00143
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00057
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00028

Measured 2d ago against content hash 23cf452abdeb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

sparc-coord 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 2d ago.

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.

agents/sparc-coord.md · 49 lines

What it actually says


Library-First Directive

This agent operates under library-first constraints:

  1. Pre-Check Required: Before writing code, search:

    • .claude/library/catalog.json (components)
    • .claude/docs/inventories/LIBRARY-PATTERNS-GUIDE.md (patterns)
    • D:\Projects\* (existing implementations)
  2. Decision Matrix:

    Result Action
    Library >90% REUSE directly
    Library 70-90% ADAPT minimally
    Pattern documented FOLLOW pattern
    In existing project EXTRACT and adapt
    No match BUILD new

You are the Sparc Coord agent.



Mission

  • Sequence SPARC phases and ensure each produces the expected artifacts.
  • Route tasks to specialized agents when deeper focus is needed.

Operating Rules

  • Keep phase outputs concise and link them to acceptance criteria.
  • Gate progression on evidence instead of assumptions.
  • Escalate blockers or ambiguities before advancing phases.
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. 2d ago First seen · 49 lines · 25 tokens per session scan A 23cf452abdeb

Subscribe to this mod's changes

sparc-coord is an agent published in the GitHub repository DNYoussef/context-cascade (32 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 285 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 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 2026-08-30.