phase-1

The first analysis phase of a development workflow. It identifies which project a request belongs to and analyzes the requirements to propose a development timeline and plan.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after kickoff to select a project from its workflow folder, gather requirements, and create an initial timeline and development plan.
Why use it?
It prevents analysis from being applied to the wrong project or from continuing when the workflow has not been started. It also makes the intended project selection explicit.

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/arsxxi/iterative-dev-workflow/phase-1
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Arsxxi/iterative-dev-workflow
Per session 5 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 590 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. 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 $0.00005 $0.00590
Opus 5 $0.00003 $0.00295
Sonnet 5 $0.00001 $0.00118
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00059

Measured 2d ago against content hash 3bfd070972cd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

phase-1 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 2d 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.

.kilo/commands/phase-1.md · 59 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 59 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Arguments

Kilo Code does not substitute $ARGUMENTS. Wherever this command refers to $ARGUMENTS, read it as the text I typed after the slash command in this message.

Expected: project name

If I typed nothing after the command, do not guess and do not invent a value: ask me for it with the question tool, then continue from there.


Step 0 — find which project this is for

Before anything else, figure out which project this command applies to:

  1. If you were given a project name after the slash (e.g. /phase-1 my-project), use it.
  2. Otherwise, look at the subfolders under .workflow/:
    • Exactly one folder → use it. Tell the user which project you picked (e.g. "Working on my-project"), so it's never a silent guess.
    • Two or more folders → ask the user once which project this is for. To make the question useful, show the first line of each project's 00-context.md, not just the folder name.
    • No folders → stop and tell the user to run /kickoff first. Don't proceed.

Phase 1: Analyze

Purpose

Analyze the requirements with the goal to propose a development timeline and plan.

Steps

  1. Gather requirements — do the usual analysis to gather requirements for what we wanted to build: $ARGUMENTS
  2. Identify libraries / npm packages — determine what libraries / npm packages will be used
  3. Categorize services — separate into two categories: Existing Services (the list of services currently available for the project: ask the user) and Proposed Services (the list of services needed to be added into the project)
  4. Brainstorm development paths — brainstorm 5 various paths of development
  5. Perform ATAM — perform an ATAM analysis of those paths of development
  6. Perform SQALE — perform a SQALE analysis of those paths of development
  7. Write final output — write the Development Timeline and explanation of chosen plan/solution

Output

Write to .workflow/<slug>/phase-1.md:

  • Development Timeline
  • Explanation of chosen plan/solution
  • Libraries / npm packages to be used
  • Existing Services and Proposed Services breakdown

Read the full file on GitHub · 59 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. 2d ago First seen · 59 lines · 5 tokens per session scan A 3bfd070972cd

Subscribe to this mod's changes

phase-1 is a command published in the GitHub repository Arsxxi/iterative-dev-workflow (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 5 tokens to every session and 590 once invoked, about $0.0000 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.