welcome

welcome is a command for coding agents from AppliedIR/sift-mcp. It costs 12 tokens per session (1,562 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

A command for checking that a Valhuntir installation is working and introducing its available forensic tools. Valhuntir is a platform for digital forensic investigations.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for testing the backend connection, checking forensic tool categories, and guiding the user through the initial installation verification.
Why use it?
It finds setup or gateway problems early and reports whether the expected investigation capabilities are available.

Command

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 commands/appliedir/sift-mcp/welcome
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AppliedIR/sift-mcp

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.

agentmods badge for welcome

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/appliedir/sift-mcp/welcome.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/commands/appliedir/sift-mcp/welcome)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/commands/appliedir/sift-mcp/welcome"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/appliedir/sift-mcp/welcome.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 12 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,562 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00012 $0.01562
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.00781
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00312
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00156

Measured 4d ago against content hash 238454f73863, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

welcome scanned grade B with 1 finding 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 4d 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.

Reads agent configuration directoriesmediumAgent snooping

.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/ hold keys, settings and other credentials a mod has no legitimate need for.

Read settings.json (both `~/.claude/settings.json` and project
claude-code/full/commands/welcome.md · 206 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 206 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/welcome — Post-Install Verification and Onboarding

Follow these phases in order. Report results as you go. Stop on failure.


Phase 1: Your Arsenal

Step 1: Backend Inventory

Run vhir setup test via Bash. If vhir is not in PATH (common on fresh installs before shell restart), use ~/.vhir/venv/bin/vhir instead. Do NOT warn about PATH — the installer already told the user to restart their shell.

It hits the gateway /health endpoint and returns per-backend status with tool counts. Report the results.

If the gateway is not responding, stop immediately: "Gateway not reachable. Check: vhir service status"

Step 2: Forensic Capabilities

Call list_available_tools on sift-mcp. Do NOT display the raw tool list. Summarize as a single line with count and categories:

Forensic tools:   N available (memory, filesystem, registry, timeline, network, imaging)

Only mention tools that are MISSING from expected categories. Do not list individual tools unless they are absent. Do NOT show install commands for missing tools — missing tools are a SIFT distribution issue, not a Valhuntir problem.

Zimmerman tools that only run on Windows (PECmd, SrumECmd) are not expected on Linux. Do not flag them as missing. If the examiner needs prefetch or SRUM parsing, mention WinTools MCP as the solution.

Step 3: Knowledge and Baselines

Call get_stats on forensic-rag and get_health on windows-triage:

Knowledge base:   N records across M sources
Triage baselines: known_good.db (X entries), context.db (Y entries)

Step 4: Report Profiles

Call list_profiles on report-mcp. List profiles with descriptions as returned by the tool.


Phase 2: How to Work

Step 5: The Interaction Model

Explain:

Valhuntir is conversation driven. Ask Claude to do anything:
- "Create a case called incident-001"
- "Register this evidence file"
- "Run volatility on this memory dump"
- "What artifacts indicate credential dumping?"
- "Generate an executive report"

Claude handles almost everything through MCP tools. No need to
memorize lots of commands or tool names.

The only CLI-only operations:
  vhir approve            Approve findings (HMAC-signed with your password)
  vhir reject             Reject findings with reason
  vhir exec               Run forensic command with TTY confirmation
  vhir config --setup-password Set your approval password
  vhir config --reset-password Change your approval password

These require YOUR terminal confirmation. By design, Claude cannot
approve its own findings or manage your password.

Read the full file on GitHub · 206 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. 4d ago First seen · 206 lines · 12 tokens per session scan B 238454f73863

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welcome is a command published in the GitHub repository AppliedIR/sift-mcp (17 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 12 tokens to every session and 1,562 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (reads agent configuration directories). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.