start

start is a command for Claude Code from AratKruglik/claude-sdlc. It costs 34 tokens per session (1,565 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command that runs a feature through a staged software-development process: requirements, implementation, testing, security review, and documentation. It detects the project's technology stack and Git branching setup before starting.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to start a complete feature workflow, inspect the project before changes are made, approve an implementation plan, and produce the final development records.
Why use it?
It coordinates the work between different development roles and pauses at key approval points. This helps keep a feature's specification, code, tests, security checks, and final pull request connected.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions Claude Code.

Part of the sdlc plugin — 3 skills, 5 commands, 5 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to start a complete feature workflow, inspect the project before changes are made, approve an implementation plan, and produce the final development records.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/aratkruglik/claude-sdlc/start
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AratKruglik/claude-sdlc

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install sdlc, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills, 5 commands, 5 agents.

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Per session 34 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,565 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 $0.00034 $0.01565
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00783
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00313
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00156

Measured 4d ago against content hash 8ebc626d5996, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, 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 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.

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.

plugins/sdlc/commands/start.md · 108 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 108 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/sdlc:start

Single entry point for the SDLC pipeline.

Execution model

This pipeline runs synchronously in the current Claude Code session — it is not a detached or autonomous background process. You stay engaged through:

  • Steps 0-2 (dependency preflight, stack detection, git-flow detection, skip-rule analysis): a series of read-only Glob/Read/git calls, each of which may prompt for tool-use permission depending on your settings.
  • The branch gate (Step 0b-git): the pipeline reports the detected branching model, the classified task type and a proposed branch name, then asks you to create / continue / rename / change type / abort before anything is written.
  • Phase boundaries: each phase prints an announcement banner and the orchestrator waits for its result before continuing.
  • The development phase's plan/approval gate: the architect writes an implementation plan, then the orchestrator stops and asks you to approve / request changes / abort before any code is written.

Setting SDLC_NONINTERACTIVE=true (see Headless mode) removes interactive prompts, but the pipeline still executes in-session — it does not become a background job.

The final documentation phase autonomously opens a Pull Request via gh pr create (or the GitHub MCP equivalent) once all prior phases complete.

Mandatory execution protocol

You MUST follow these steps in order, printing each announcement verbatim (do not summarize, skip, or collapse them):

Step 1 — Validate input

If $ARGUMENTS is empty: ask the user for a feature description and stop. Do NOT proceed.

Extract and strip these flags from the description, remembering each value:

Flag Remembered as Effect
--stack=NAME forced_stack skips stack auto-detection
--type=NAME forced_task_type skips task-type classification (feature, fix, bugfix, hotfix, release, refactor, docs, chore)
--workflow=NAME forced_workflow skips workflow auto-selection
--redetect-git-flow redetect_git_flow ignores the cached branching-model detection
--redetect-stack redetect_stack ignores the SessionStart-hook-written stack-detection cache
--force-preflight force_preflight ignores the cached dependency preflight

Read the full file on GitHub · 108 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 Changed · +1 lines 8ebc626d5996
  2. 6d ago First seen · 107 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A 1d5c0f17ec03

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start is a command published in the GitHub repository AratKruglik/claude-sdlc (33 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 1,565 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-03.