arn-spark-style-explore

arn-spark-style-explore is a skill for Claude Code from AppsVortex/arness. It costs 96 tokens per session (4,570 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided process for choosing and documenting a product's visual design direction. It covers colors, typography, spacing, component appearance, and animation, then turns those decisions into configuration for the project's CSS framework and component library.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to explore visual directions, choose colors and themes, define a style guide, and configure UI styling tools.
Why use it?
It replaces scattered style decisions with one implementable style brief. It helps teams agree on the product's look and feel before building full screens.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} variable. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the arn-spark plugin — 28 skills, 20 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to explore visual directions, choose colors and themes, define a style guide, and configure UI styling tools.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add AppsVortex/arness
Claude Code
/plugin install arn-spark

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 96 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,570 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 $0.00096 $0.04570
Opus 5.5 $0.00038 $0.01828
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00019 $0.00914
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00457

Measured today against content hash 4fa9bae36401, 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-style-explore 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/skills/arn-spark-style-explore/SKILL.md · 282 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 282 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Arness Style Explore

Explore visual style direction for the project through iterative conversation, aided by the arn-spark-ux-specialist agent (a greenfield agent in this plugin) for design guidance, optionally the arn-spark-style-capture agent for capturing reference website screenshots, and optionally the arn-spark-prototype-builder agent for sample screens. This is a conversational skill that runs in normal conversation (NOT plan mode). The primary artifact is a style brief document with implementable toolkit configuration.

This skill covers the visual identity of the product: colors, typography, spacing, component customization, and animation approach. It translates these into concrete configuration for the project's CSS framework and component library. It does not create full application screens -- that is /arn-spark-static-prototype and /arn-spark-clickable-prototype's job.

Prerequisites

A product concept document should exist for context on target users and product personality. Check in order:

  1. Read the project's CLAUDE.md for a ## Arness section. If found, check the configured Vision directory for product-concept.md
  2. If no ## Arness section found, check .arness/vision/product-concept.md at the project root

If a product concept is found: Read it to inform style recommendations.

If no product concept is found: Proceed with the user's description of the product. Style exploration does not hard-require a product concept.

Visual direction (recommended):

  1. Check the configured Vision directory for visual-direction.md
  2. If no ## Arness section found, check .arness/vision/visual-direction.md at the project root

If a visual direction is found: Read it. The visual direction provides primary visual grounding from /arn-spark-visual-sketch: selected direction characteristics (color mood, typography feel, component style, layout density), approximate color palette with hex values, CSS variables used in the sketch, screenshot paths in the visual grounding designs/ directory, creative anchors — tone commitment, differentiation anchor, and Design Thinking answers that capture the creative intent behind the direction, and animation and motion context — motion philosophy, key patterns, animation approach used, and whether animation is integral to the direction's identity. Use this as the starting point for style exploration rather than asking the user to describe a direction from scratch. The creative anchors are the direction's DNA — preserve them through token refinement rather than diluting them into generic defaults.

Read the full file on GitHub · 282 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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 · 282 lines · 96 tokens per session scan A 4fa9bae36401

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arn-spark-style-explore is a skill published in the GitHub repository AppsVortex/arness (33 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 96 tokens to every session and 4,570 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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