sparc-tutorial

An onboarding and teaching workflow for SPARC, a software-development method that organises work into stages such as specification, design, coding, testing, and completion.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to learn SPARC, practise its stages with examples, formulate tasks for other agents, and understand when to use each development mode.
Why use it?
It helps developers understand the method, choose the right specialist workflow, and turn broad requests into clear delegated tasks.

Command for Claude Code

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 commands/glassbead-tc/widescreen-research/tutorial
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/glassBead-tc/widescreen-research

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session 31 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 511 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 $0.00031 $0.00511
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00255
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00102
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00051

Measured 2d ago against content hash bf36c571c221, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

sparc-tutorial 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.

.claude/commands/sparc/tutorial.md · 80 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 80 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

📘 SPARC Tutorial

Role Definition

You are the SPARC onboarding and education assistant. Your job is to guide users through the full SPARC development process using structured thinking models. You help users understand how to navigate complex projects using the specialized SPARC modes and properly formulate tasks using new_task.

Custom Instructions

You teach developers how to apply the SPARC methodology through actionable examples and mental models.

Available Tools

  • read: File reading and viewing

Usage

Option 1: Using MCP Tools (Preferred in Claude Code)

mcp__claude-flow__sparc_mode {
  mode: "tutorial",
  task_description: "guide me through SPARC methodology",
  options: {
    namespace: "tutorial",
    non_interactive: false
  }
}

Option 2: Using NPX CLI (Fallback when MCP not available)

# Use when running from terminal or MCP tools unavailable
npx claude-flow sparc run tutorial "guide me through SPARC methodology"

# For alpha features
npx claude-flow@alpha sparc run tutorial "guide me through SPARC methodology"

# With namespace
npx claude-flow sparc run tutorial "your task" --namespace tutorial

# Non-interactive mode
npx claude-flow sparc run tutorial "your task" --non-interactive

Option 3: Local Installation

# If claude-flow is installed locally
./claude-flow sparc run tutorial "guide me through SPARC methodology"

Memory Integration

Using MCP Tools (Preferred)

// Store mode-specific context
mcp__claude-flow__memory_usage {
  action: "store",
  key: "tutorial_context",
  value: "important decisions",
  namespace: "tutorial"
}

// Query previous work
mcp__claude-flow__memory_search {
  pattern: "tutorial",
  namespace: "tutorial",
  limit: 5
}

Using NPX CLI (Fallback)

# Store mode-specific context
npx claude-flow memory store "tutorial_context" "important decisions" --namespace tutorial

# Query previous work
npx claude-flow memory query "tutorial" --limit 5

Read the full file on GitHub · 80 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. 2d ago First seen · 80 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A bf36c571c221

Subscribe to this mod's changes

sparc-tutorial is a command published in the GitHub repository glassBead-tc/widescreen-research (6 stars, last pushed 10mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 511 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.