sparc-methodology

sparc-methodology is a skill for Claude Code from proffesor-for-testing/agentic-qe. It costs 79 tokens per session (759 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of sparc-methodology, MIT.

A five-step workflow for planning complex software work: specification, pseudocode, architecture, refinement, and completion. It helps define the work before implementation begins.

In plain words
What is it for?
Planning new features, architectural changes, system redesigns, integrations, and other large implementations.
Why use it?
Complex features and system changes can fail when requirements, design, or dependencies are unclear. This workflow makes those decisions explicit before coding.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Part of the claude-flow plugin — 134 skills, 46 commands, 11 agents, 4 hooks shipped together

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 skills/proffesor-for-testing/agentic-qe/sparc-methodology
Any agent
npx skills add proffesor-for-testing/agentic-qe --skill sparc-methodology
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/proffesor-for-testing/agentic-qe

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claude-flow, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 134 skills, 46 commands, 11 agents, 4 hooks.

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README.md
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Per session 79 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 759 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00079 $0.00759
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.00380
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00152
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00076

Measured 2d ago against content hash 9c861dd4ab15, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

sparc-methodology 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to sparc-methodology — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.agents/skills/ruflo/.agents/skills/sparc-methodology/SKILL.md · 119 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 119 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Sparc Methodology Skill

Purpose

SPARC development workflow: Specification, Pseudocode, Architecture, Refinement, Completion. A structured approach for complex implementations that ensures thorough planning before coding.

When to Trigger

  • new feature implementation
  • complex implementations
  • architectural changes
  • system redesign
  • integration work
  • unclear requirements

When to Skip

  • simple bug fixes
  • documentation updates
  • configuration changes
  • well-defined small tasks
  • routine maintenance

Commands

Specification Phase

Define requirements, acceptance criteria, and constraints

npx @claude-flow/cli hooks route --task "specification: [requirements]"

Example:

npx @claude-flow/cli hooks route --task "specification: user authentication with OAuth2, MFA, and session management"

Pseudocode Phase

Write high-level pseudocode for the implementation

npx @claude-flow/cli hooks route --task "pseudocode: [feature]"

Example:

npx @claude-flow/cli hooks route --task "pseudocode: OAuth2 login flow with token refresh"

Architecture Phase

Design system structure, interfaces, and dependencies

npx @claude-flow/cli hooks route --task "architecture: [design]"

Example:

npx @claude-flow/cli hooks route --task "architecture: auth module with service layer, repository, and API endpoints"

Refinement Phase

Iterate on the design based on feedback

npx @claude-flow/cli hooks route --task "refinement: [feedback]"

Example:

npx @claude-flow/cli hooks route --task "refinement: add rate limiting and brute force protection"

Completion Phase

Finalize implementation with tests and documentation

npx @claude-flow/cli hooks route --task "completion: [final checks]"

Example:

npx @claude-flow/cli hooks route --task "completion: verify all tests pass, update API docs, security review"

SPARC Coordinator

Spawn SPARC coordinator agent

Read the full file on GitHub · 119 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 · 119 lines · 79 tokens per session scan A 9c861dd4ab15

Subscribe to this mod's changes

sparc-methodology is a skill published in the GitHub repository proffesor-for-testing/agentic-qe (474 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 79 tokens to every session and 759 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to sparc-methodology, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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