diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 59de58e..f9417bf 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -34,6 +34,9 @@ test = [
 [project.urls]
 homepage = "https://github.com/nv-legate/aedifix"
 
+[project.scripts]
+aedifix-select-arch-color = "aedifix.scripts.select_arch_color:main"
+
 [tool.setuptools_scm]
 write_to = "src/aedifix/_version.py"
 
diff --git a/src/aedifix/scripts/select_arch_color.py b/src/aedifix/scripts/select_arch_color.py
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..11d5fd6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/aedifix/scripts/select_arch_color.py
@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright (c) 2024-2025 NVIDIA CORPORATION & AFFILIATES.
+#                         All rights reserved.
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import sys
+
+
+def select_arch_color(arch_value: str) -> str:
+    r"""Chooses a random color based on the value of arch_value. This helps to
+    visually distinguish between different arches when recompiling.
+
+    Parameters
+    ----------
+    arch_value : str
+        The arch value, or any string really.
+
+    Returns
+    -------
+    str
+        The chosen color.
+    """
+    from zlib import adler32
+
+    colors = ("red", "green", "yellow", "blue", "magenta", "cyan", "normal")
+
+    # Use zlib.adler32 instead of builtin hash() because the builtin hash() is
+    # not reproducible. Running hash("the same string") on different
+    # invocations of Python will yield different results every time. We don't
+    # want that, because we want the same arch value to have the same color
+    # each time:
+    #
+    # $ python3 -c 'print(hash("foo"))'
+    # 673628788748047246
+    # $ python3 -c 'print(hash("foo"))'
+    # -6413379324416539761
+    #
+    # With adler32:
+    # $ python3 -c 'import zlib; print(zlib.adler32("foo".encode()))'
+    # 42074437
+    # $ python3 -c 'import zlib; print(zlib.adler32("foo".encode()))'
+    # 42074437
+    return colors[adler32(arch_value.encode()) % len(colors)]
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    if len(sys.argv) < 2:  # noqa: PLR2004
+        print(f"usage: {sys.argv[0]} ARCH_NAME")  # noqa: T201
+        return 1
+
+    color = select_arch_color(sys.argv[1])
+    print(color, end="")  # noqa: T201
+    return 0
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    sys.exit(main())