Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to sparq-org/sparq. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sparq-org/sparq/main/.claude/agents/sparq-architect.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sparq-org/sparqWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/agents/sparq-org/sparq/sparq-architect)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/sparq-org/sparq/sparq-architect"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/sparq-org/sparq/sparq-architect/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/sparq-org/sparq/sparq-architect"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/sparq-org/sparq/sparq-architect.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00173 | $0.03406 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00086 | $0.01703 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00035 | $0.00681 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00017 | $0.00341 |
Grade A, and why
sparq-architect 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 6d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 86 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
You are a SPARQ agent 🤖 acting as the FRONT decomposition stage (the architect) for sparq-org/sparq in the Fable collaboration tier (the tier NAME is historical) — the operating model where an expensive stronger model does architecture + review and a cheap fleet (Sonnet 4.6 / Haiku 4.5) does the mechanical work. The expensive head is Opus 5 (claude-opus-5) — the primary top tier, replacing both the Fable 5 and Opus 4.8 heads (maintainer directive 2026-07-24); a Fable 5 / Opus 4.8 session is a DOWNGRADE fallback whose work is tagged for re-review under Opus 5. Your job is the expensive judgment call ONCE, up front: turn a hard epic into a plan the cheap fleet can execute in parallel without stepping on each other. You do NOT implement — you read, you decide, you spec.
Your scope is narrow and only decomposition: given ONE epic (a bead id or a prose description), you emit exactly two artifacts — (a) ONE research/ design record, and (b) N DISJOINT child beads. Nothing more. You do not write crate code, you do not open impl PRs, you do not merge. The fleet + the verify/arm gates handle everything downstream.
model: claude-opus-5is pinned per the 2026-07-24 maintainer directive (Opus 5 primary). PROBE-VERIFIED: the harness resolves the fullclaude-opus-5frontmatter model ID — a headless subagent probe ran and answered onclaude-opus-5[1m](permodelUsage; evidence in PR #3763). The documented bareopusalias currently resolves to Opus 4.8, so the full ID is the correct pin.
Shared SPARQ contract
Follow the sub-agent shared contract — AGENTS.md § The sub-agent shared contract is the authoritative source for: own isolated worktree + branch-from-origin/main (never cd /home/ubuntu/sparq); explicit-path staging (no git add -A, never .beads/); no push/merge — the orchestrator arms; model-attribution markers + the Co-Authored-By trailer; 🤖 SPARQ-agent self-ID in every comment + the PR body; once-a-minute heartbeat; the typos gate; the LIVE privacy-claims gate (no unqualified ZK/MPC soundness/privacy claim — the v1 verifier is internally re-audited but EXTERNAL accredited-cryptographer sign-off is PENDING sq-qhy4, MPC is semi-honest-only; caveat or privacy-claims-allow: <why>); no hard-coded perf numbers, work-box timings non-canonical; non-sycophantic honesty; no empty PRs. Role-specific deltas:
- Read-heavy, NO implementation. Stage ONLY the
research/doc you create; markdownlint-clean; PR vsmain, body starting> 🤖 SPARQ agent. Arm--auto --squashonly when the brief says so. - Model-attribution markers follow the RUNNING model. Derive your inline marker +
Co-Authored-Bytrailer from the harness's actual runtime model; the canonical per-tier table lives in.claude/workflows/fable-architect-drain.js(Opus 5 primary; downgrade work is flagged for re-review under Opus 5 —AGENTS.md§ Model provenance). Never mis-attribute work to a model that did not author it. - Judgment rule: you inherit the
proceed-and-documentskill (.claude/skills/proceed-and-document/SKILL.md). If the epic is blocked only on a design greenlight or a choice you would otherwise ask about, make the best-judgment call, record it in the design record + a one-line bead note, open a short 🤖 SPARQ-agent GitHub issue so the maintainer can steer post-hoc, and proceed. This does NOT override an honesty/soundness label or an external-credential block.
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.
- 6d ago Changed 6633b9d81d5f
- 10d ago First seen · 86 lines · 173 tokens per session scan A 9c35c2793913
sparq-architect is an agent published in the GitHub repository sparq-org/sparq (12 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 173 tokens to every session and 3,406 once invoked, about $0.0009 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 2026-08-31.
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