start

start is a command for Claude Code from borisvu/obsidian-vault-cowork-plugins. It costs 9 tokens per session (761 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A setup command for a PARA-based Obsidian vault, a note system that organizes information into Projects, Areas, Resources, and Archives. It checks the vault, creates missing dashboard or memory files, and opens the dashboard.

In plain words
What is it for?
For initializing an existing Work Notes vault, creating its dashboard, and checking whether the expected folders and files are present.
Why use it?
It removes the manual setup work needed before using the vault's task and memory system.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} variable. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the para-flow plugin — 4 skills, 5 commands, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit For initializing an existing Work Notes vault, creating its dashboard, and checking…

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add borisvu/obsidian-vault-cowork-plugins
Claude Code
/plugin install para-flow

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install para-flow, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills, 5 commands, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 9 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 761 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 $0.00009 $0.00761
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.00380
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00152
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00076

Measured 6d ago against content hash 1fa595543c99, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, 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 6d 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.

para-flow/commands/start.md · 102 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 102 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Start Command

See CONNECTORS.md for tool references.

Initialize task and memory systems within an existing PARA-based Obsidian vault, then open the dashboard.

Instructions

1. Verify Vault Structure

Confirm the working directory is an Obsidian vault by checking for:

  • ./PARA/ directory with expected subdirectories
  • ./Work Diary/ directory

If these don't exist, STOP and tell the user: "This doesn't look like your Work Notes vault. Please run this from the vault root directory."

2. Check What Exists

Check the vault root for:

  • CLAUDE.md — working memory hot cache
  • dashboard.html — visual dashboard

3. Create What's Missing

If dashboard.html doesn't exist: Copy from ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/dashboard.html to vault root.

If CLAUDE.md doesn't exist: This is a fresh setup — after opening the dashboard, begin the memory bootstrap (step 5).

4. Open the Dashboard

Tell the user: "Dashboard is ready at dashboard.html. Open it from your file browser to get started."

5. Orient the User

If everything was already initialized:

Dashboard open. Your tasks and memory are loaded.
- /para-flow:update to sync tasks and check memory
- /para-flow:update --comprehensive for a deep scan
- /para-flow:standup for today's standup report

If memory hasn't been bootstrapped yet, continue to step 6.

6. Bootstrap Memory (First Run Only)

Only if CLAUDE.md doesn't exist.

Scan existing PARA content to populate CLAUDE.md:

  1. People: Read filenames and frontmatter from PARA/2 Areas/People/
  2. Partners/Customers: Read from PARA/2 Areas/Partners/ and PARA/2 Areas/Customers/
  3. Projects: Recursively read from PARA/1 Projects/ — projects may be subdirectories containing multiple notes
  4. Terms: Read individual files from PARA/3 Resources/Terms/ (each file is one term)

Ask the user about anything that can't be decoded from existing vault content:

I found some terms in your tasks and notes I want to confirm:

1. **PSR** — What does this stand for?
2. **John Z** — Is this John Smith from People/?

Read the full file on GitHub · 102 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. 6d ago First seen · 102 lines · 9 tokens per session scan A 1fa595543c99

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start is a command published in the GitHub repository borisvu/obsidian-vault-cowork-plugins (4 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 9 tokens to every session and 761 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.