start

A command that starts or resumes an autonomous development loop called RedEye. It checks the project’s configuration, vision, task list, and saved state before work begins.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to start a fresh loop or continue one from saved state, then review the project vision, task count, and next planned item.
Why use it?
It catches missing setup and makes a resumed run visible by showing its iteration, recent activity, health, and confidence information.

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/bitmia-ai/redeye/start
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Bitmia-ai/RedEye
Per session 7 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,109 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 $0.00007 $0.01109
Opus 5 $0.00003 $0.00554
Sonnet 5 $0.00001 $0.00222
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00111

Measured 2d ago against content hash d9e95a77dc76, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 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.

commands/start.md · 105 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 105 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Start RedEye

Validate the project is ready and start the Ralph Loop.

Step 1: Validate Setup

Check that these files exist in the project root:

  • .redeye/config.md — if missing, tell user to run /redeye:init first
  • .redeye/config.md must contain a ## Vision section with content (not just the placeholder). If missing or empty, tell user to add a vision.
  • .redeye/tasks.md — if no items, tell user to add at least one item
  • .redeye/state.json — if missing, tell user to run /redeye:init

If any validation fails, stop and guide the user.

Step 2: Check Resume State

Read .redeye/state.json:

  • If iteration > 0: this is a resume
    • Show: "Resuming from iteration {n} ({phase})"
    • Show last 3 entries from iteration_log
    • Show health/confidence
  • If iteration = 0: this is a fresh start
    • Show: "Starting fresh"

Step 3: Show Summary

Present to the user:

  • Vision: first 100 chars of ## Vision section in .redeye/config.md
  • Tasks: count of items (CEO Requests + Discovered + Triaged)
  • Health: confidence level, env status
  • Next: what the team will work on first (highest-priority planned item, or first CEO Request if nothing triaged)

Step 4: Start Loop

CRITICAL: You MUST run the start-loop.sh script. Do NOT skip this. It creates the .claude/ralph-loop.local.md file that enables autonomous looping. Without it, the session will stop after each response instead of continuing automatically.

"${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/start-loop.sh" .

If CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT is not set, find the plugin root by looking for .claude-plugin/plugin.json in parent directories or common plugin locations.

Read the full file on GitHub · 105 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 · 105 lines · 7 tokens per session scan A d9e95a77dc76

Subscribe to this mod's changes

start is a command published in the GitHub repository Bitmia-ai/RedEye (6 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 7 tokens to every session and 1,109 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.