sparc-modes

SPARC (Specification, Planning, Architecture, Review, Code) is a comprehensive development methodology with 17 specialized modes, all integrated with MCP tools for enhanced coordination and execution.

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/ruvnet/ruview/sparc-modes
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ruvnet/RuView

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,037 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00000 $0.01037
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00518
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00207
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00104

Measured today against content hash 2c740231aeed, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

sparc-modes 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.

.claude/commands/sparc/sparc-modes.md · 175 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 175 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

SPARC Modes Overview

SPARC (Specification, Planning, Architecture, Review, Code) is a comprehensive development methodology with 17 specialized modes, all integrated with MCP tools for enhanced coordination and execution.

Available Modes

Core Orchestration Modes

  • orchestrator: Multi-agent task orchestration
  • swarm-coordinator: Specialized swarm management
  • workflow-manager: Process automation
  • batch-executor: Parallel task execution

Development Modes

  • coder: Autonomous code generation
  • architect: System design
  • reviewer: Code review
  • tdd: Test-driven development

Analysis and Research Modes

  • researcher: Deep research capabilities
  • analyzer: Code and data analysis
  • optimizer: Performance optimization

Creative and Support Modes

  • designer: UI/UX design
  • innovator: Creative problem solving
  • documenter: Documentation generation
  • debugger: Systematic debugging
  • tester: Comprehensive testing
  • memory-manager: Knowledge management

Usage

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

// Execute SPARC mode directly
mcp__claude-flow__sparc_mode {
  mode: "<mode>",
  task_description: "<task>",
  options: {
    // mode-specific options
  }
}

// Initialize swarm for advanced coordination
mcp__claude-flow__swarm_init {
  topology: "hierarchical",
  strategy: "auto",
  maxAgents: 8
}

// Spawn specialized agents
mcp__claude-flow__agent_spawn {
  type: "<agent-type>",
  capabilities: ["<capability1>", "<capability2>"]
}

// Monitor execution
mcp__claude-flow__swarm_monitor {
  swarmId: "current",
  interval: 5000
}

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

# Use when running from terminal or MCP tools unavailable
npx claude-flow sparc run <mode> "task description"

# For alpha features
npx claude-flow@alpha sparc run <mode> "task description"

# List all modes
npx claude-flow sparc modes

# Get help for a mode
npx claude-flow sparc help <mode>

# Run with options
npx claude-flow sparc run <mode> "task" --parallel --monitor

Read the full file on GitHub · 175 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 · 175 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 2c740231aeed

Subscribe to this mod's changes

sparc-modes is a command published in the GitHub repository ruvnet/RuView (92,406 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 1,037 tokens. 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 2026-09-03.