issue-start

issue-start is a command for coding agents from assafkip/kipi-system. It costs 10 tokens per session (885 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command that loads a structured issue specification and begins work on it.

In plain words
What is it for?
Starting a DSSE issue workflow from an issue ID and presenting its scope and verification requirements to the supervising agent.
Why use it?
It makes the allowed files, required checks, required reviews, and first planned change explicit before editing starts.

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 kipi-dsse plugin — 6 commands 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/assafkip/kipi-system/issue-start
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/assafkip/kipi-system

Or install kipi-dsse, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 commands.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 10 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 885 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 $0.00010 $0.00885
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.00443
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00177
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00089

Measured 5d ago against content hash 781391aa5711, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

issue-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 5d 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/kipi-dsse/commands/issue-start.md · 53 lines

What it actually says

You are starting a DSSE issue. The issue id is: $ARGUMENTS

Execute the following, in order:

  1. Run python3 "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/issue_runner.py" load $ARGUMENTS. The output is JSON describing the loaded spec. If the command exits non-zero, stop and report the error. Do not invent an issue spec.

  2. Read the full spec file at the spec_path returned by step 1.

  3. Present a plan to the advisor (main session, in the v2 rewrite topology) via the channel:

    • One line summarizing the title and priority.
    • The full allowed_files list exactly as loaded. State explicitly: "all edits must target one of these paths."
    • The full required_checks list. State: "these must all exit 0 before /issue-verify will record the verified receipt."
    • The full required_reviews list.
    • The first concrete change you plan to make, in one sentence.
  4. Decide whether to wait for advisor approval or self-progress, per the issue-approve autonomy contract:

    • If this is issue 1 of the PRD: wait for the advisor (main session) to approve the plan or redirect. Plan approvals route to main, NOT to the founder. Founder gates only for charter changes (PRD-approve), scope amendments mid-issue, and PRD-split manifest commit.
    • If this is issue 2..N of the same PRD AND the plan's allowed_files and required_checks match the PRD manifest verbatim AND no scope amendment is introduced: do NOT wait. Proceed directly to step 5.
    • If the plan deviates from the manifest in any way (scope amendment): wait for the founder. Surface explicitly as [FOUNDER-INPUT-NEEDED].
  5. Load the execution-discipline layer: invoke the fable-discipline skill by name via the Skill tool (it ships in the prd-os plugin; skill-name resolution finds the installed copy — do NOT read a source-tree path, and note ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} here is kipi-dsse's root, not prd-os's). It is prd-os's per-edit procedure — recon before edit, verify-against-a-copy with a negative self-test, single-writer chokepoints, scar-anchored why-comments. The deterministic slice (test isolation) is enforced regardless by the fable-discipline-lint PostToolUse hook in the prd-os plugin; the skill covers the judgment slice the hook cannot see. If the skill is unavailable (prd-os not installed), say so and continue — the lint hook still gates the deterministic slice.

  6. Run /issue-approve. That command flips the spec status from open to in-progress and arms the stop-time gate. Planning before this step is intentionally gate-exempt so a loaded spec does not spam the Stop hook while the plan is being reviewed.

Do NOT ask the founder for confirmation on:

  • /issue-start invocation itself (the founder already typed it or the prior issue's closeout chained to it)
  • Issue 1 plan-approval (route to advisor / main session)
  • Commit + push between issues (the auto-approve-git PreToolUse hook handles it; if the hook denies, founder gets the prompt naturally)
  • Advancing to the next issue in the PRD chain when the prior issue closed cleanly
  • Codex finding triage and disposition during /issue-closeout

Rules while the issue is loaded:

  • Every edit you make must target a path that matches allowed_files.
  • The PreToolUse scope hook will block out-of-scope edits automatically.
  • Do not mark the issue verified, reviewed, or closed yourself. Use /issue-verify, /issue-review, /issue-closeout.
  • If you discover mid-issue that the scope is wrong, update the spec file's allowed_files first, explain why, then continue.
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. 5d ago First seen · 53 lines · 10 tokens per session scan A 781391aa5711

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issue-start is a command published in the GitHub repository assafkip/kipi-system (109 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 10 tokens to every session and 885 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 2026-08-30.