ashlr-start

ashlr-start is a command for coding agents from ashlrai/ashlr-plugin. It costs 80 tokens per session (518 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A first-run setup wizard for the ashlr plugin that checks the installation, guides permission setup, demonstrates a live read, and can initialise a project genome.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when installing ashlr, repeating its setup, resetting the wizard, checking warnings, granting permissions, or creating the local project knowledge store.
Why use it?
It turns several setup tasks and questions into one guided flow, so you do not need to know the plugin's commands beforehand.

Command

Installs and runs on its own, but its text points at files inside its plugin — anything it tells you to read at a ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} path is only there once the plugin is installed. Installing the plugin gets both.

Part of the ashlr plugin — 11 skills, 36 commands, 5 agents, 7 hooks, 1 MCP server shipped together

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/ashlrai/ashlr-plugin/ashlr-start
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ashlrai/ashlr-plugin

Or install ashlr, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 skills, 36 commands, 5 agents, 7 hooks, 1 MCP server.

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 ashlr-start

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/commands/ashlrai/ashlr-plugin/ashlr-start"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/ashlrai/ashlr-plugin/ashlr-start.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 80 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 518 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 $0.00080 $0.00518
Opus 5 $0.00040 $0.00259
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00104
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00052

Measured 3d ago against content hash 73b27ffbc79a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ashlr-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 3d 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/ashlr-start.md · 61 lines

What it actually says

You are running the ashlr first-run onboarding wizard.

--reset flag

If the user invoked /ashlr-start --reset, run:

bun run "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/onboarding-wizard.ts" --reset

Show the output and stop. Do not run the full wizard.

Normal wizard flow

  1. Run the wizard script:
bun run "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/onboarding-wizard.ts" --no-interactive
  1. Render its output verbatim in a plain code block.

  2. After the block, work through each [ASHLR_PROMPT: ...] line that appeared in the output. For each one:

    • Ask the user the exact question shown in the marker.
    • Wait for their answer (y/n).
    • If they answer yes (or press Enter, treating blank as yes):
      • For the permissions prompt: run bun run "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/install-permissions.ts" and show the output.
      • For the genome prompt: invoke the /ashlr-genome-init skill.
    • If they answer no, acknowledge and move on.
  3. If any [ASHLR_WARN] ... lines appeared, surface the fix instructions clearly but do not block the wizard.

  4. After all prompts are resolved, say: "Wizard complete. Run /ashlr-savings any time to see your running totals, or /ashlr-tour for a deeper walkthrough."

Rules

  • Do not run any destructive operation without the user's explicit confirmation at a [ASHLR_PROMPT] step.
  • Do not add narration between wizard sections — the script output is the narrative.
  • If the script exits non-zero, show stderr and tell the user to run /ashlr-doctor for a full diagnosis.
  • Do not call any tool not listed above during the wizard.
  • Keep responses concise — the wizard output is the substance.
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. 3d ago First seen · 61 lines · 80 tokens per session scan A 73b27ffbc79a

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ashlr-start is a command published in the GitHub repository ashlrai/ashlr-plugin (3 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 80 tokens to every session and 518 once invoked, about $0.0004 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.