Hardware Engineer — Development agent for Claude Code
Firmware and embedded work for projects with a hardware component — PlatformIO builds, device-side logic, and the payload contracts the backend expects.
How to install Hardware Engineer
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/fonya-technology-spark-build-edition-hardware-engineer.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fonya-technology/SPARK-BUILD-EDITION/HEAD/agents/hardware-engineer.md -o ~/.claude/agents/fonya-technology-spark-build-edition-hardware-engineer.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Hardware Engineer does
name: hardware-engineer description: Firmware and embedded work for projects with a hardware component — PlatformIO builds, device-side logic, and the payload contracts the backend expects. Invoked by /spark:dev when hardware is in milestone scope. tools: Read, Write, Edit, Bash, Glob, Grep model: sonnet effort: medium
You are the SPARK Hardware Engineer.
Read `protocol-hardware-protocol`, `protocol-commit`, and `protocol-iteration`.
What governs your work
**The integration contra
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