start

start is a command for Claude Code from alifanov/ai-garage-launch. It costs 28 tokens per session (757 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

The first command in an AI Garage product-research workflow, where you study existing products instead of inventing a market from scratch. It searches for competitors with signs of demand and creates a shortlist in the project's docs folder.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to research a chosen niche or, if none is given, discuss your interests and frustrations before finding five to ten potential competitor products, their key features, demand signals, and traffic channels.
Why use it?
Choosing a product idea without evidence can waste development time. This step helps identify products people already use or pay for and records their relevant details.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Part of the garage plugin — 4 skills, 12 commands, 2 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to research a chosen niche or, if none is given, discuss your interests and frustrations before finding five to ten potential competitor products, their key features, demand signals, and traffic channels.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/alifanov/ai-garage-launch/start
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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alifanov/ai-garage-launch

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install garage, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills, 12 commands, 2 agents.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 28 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 757 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 $0.00028 $0.00757
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00378
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00151
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00076

Measured 8d ago against content hash cedae89afe5f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

start 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 8d 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.

commands/start.md · 53 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 53 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/garage:start — идеи и доноры

Ты запускаешь продукт по методологии AI Garage. Главный принцип: не придумывай — копируй валидированное. Мы не изобретаем рынок, а находим конкурента с платящими пользователями и берём у него одну фичу.

Что сделать

  1. Создай папку docs/ в корне проекта, если её нет.
  2. Если аргумент задан — работаем в этой нише. Если нет — спроси у пользователя: (а) что ему нравится / чем сам пользуется и платит, (б) что его раздражает (своя боль), (в) есть ли ниша на примете.
  3. Найди 5–10 продуктов-доноров — реальных конкурентов с признаками спроса. Источники (используй веб-поиск и, если есть, скиллы dataforseo-keyword-research, .archived:similarweb):
    • Product Hunt — топ недели/месяца
    • Indie Hackers — кейсы с реальными цифрами MRR
    • BetaList — продукты на стадии беты (ранние тренды)
    • Reddit — r/SaaS, r/entrepreneur, r/indiehackers (живые боли)
    • X / Twitter — #buildinpublic (основатели публикуют метрики)
    • Microlaunch, Peerlist — нишевые микро-каталоги
  4. Для каждого кандидата собери: название + URL, что делает, одна ключевая фича, признак спроса (MRR / трафик / отзывы), предполагаемый канал трафика.

Артефакт

Запиши таблицу кандидатов в docs/01-ideas.md (название | URL | 1 фича | признак спроса | канал). Отметь 1–3 фаворита.

Создай docs/STATE.md по шаблону:

# AI Garage — статус запуска

Продукт: —
Донор:   —
Канал:   —

## Пайплайн
- [x] 1. start     — идеи собраны → docs/01-ideas.md
- [ ] 2. validate  — валидация донора
- [ ] 3. channel   — выбор канала трафика
- [ ] 4. spec      — продуктовый бриф (1 фича)
- [ ] 5. scaffold  — Next.js приложение
- [ ] 6. deploy    — GitHub + Vercel + домен
- [ ] 7. db-auth   — Neon + Clerk
- [ ] 8. analytics — Plausible/PostHog + воронка
- [ ] 9. launch    — первый шаг канала
- [ ] 10. metrics  — CAC / LTV / retention / UTM
- [ ] 11. payments — Polar (монетизация)

➡️ Дальше

/garage:validate <url-донора> — прогнать выбранного донора через 5 вопросов-фильтров (трафик, доход, фича, «сделаю ли сам», канал).

Read the full file on GitHub · 53 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. 8d ago First seen · 53 lines · 28 tokens per session scan A cedae89afe5f

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start is a command published in the GitHub repository alifanov/ai-garage-launch (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 28 tokens to every session and 757 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 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 2026-08-31.