Ruvlo SPARC

Features

• Orchestrates the 5-phase SPARC methodology
• Spawns specialized agents per phase (researcher, planner, architect, coder, reviewer)
• Enforces quality gates between development phases
• Manages state and artifacts in memory for traceability
• Provides commands for workflow initialization, status tracking, advancement, and reporting

Use Cases

• When starting a new feature and needing a structured approach to requirements gathering.
• To ensure code quality and adherence to specifications throughout the development lifecycle.
• For teams that benefit from defined phases, gate checks, and specialized agent roles.
• To maintain traceability of decisions and artifacts from specification to completion.

Non-Goals

• Replacing IDEs or direct coding environments.
• Automating the entire development process without human oversight.
• Providing specific language-native tooling beyond what Claude's environment supports.

Workflow

1. Initialize SPARC workflow for a feature
2. Begin Specification phase (gather requirements, define ACs, constraints, edge cases)
3. Pass Specification gate
4. Begin Pseudocode phase (design algorithms, data structures, control flow)
5. Pass Pseudocode gate
6. Begin Architecture phase (define contexts, API contracts, module boundaries)
7. Pass Architecture gate
8. Begin Refinement phase (code review, test coverage, performance validation)
9. Pass Refinement gate
10. Begin Completion phase (full regression, traceability, docs, deployment checklist)
11. Pass Completion gate
12. Generate full SPARC report

Practices

• Software development lifecycle management
• Quality assurance
• Agile methodologies
• Agent-based development

Prerequisites

• Claude Code runtime environment
• Access to Claude's internal memory store and agent spawning capabilities