start

A project-orientation command that scans the code, configuration, dependencies, and task records to summarize the current state.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when joining a project or resuming work to review source folders, package scripts, configuration, and pending or completed tasks.
Why use it?
It gives a new contributor a quick view of how the project is organized and what work remains, without manually inspecting every file.

Command for Claude Code

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/caspian-sun/claude-code-workflow/start
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Caspian-Sun/claude-code-workflow

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 384 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 $0.00000 $0.00384
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00192
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00077
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00038

Measured 2d ago against content hash 85ec386b78c6, 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.

.claude/commands/start.md · 43 lines

What it actually says

You just joined this project. Please follow these steps to get oriented:

Note: CLAUDE.md and project conventions under .claude/rules/ are already auto-loaded — no need to re-read them.

Step 1: Understand the Current Project State

  1. Scan the workspace/src/ directory structure to understand the existing code modules and file layout
  2. Check workspace/package.json to confirm installed dependencies and available scripts
  3. Check the workspace/config/ directory to understand project configuration (routes / theme / proxy, etc.)

Step 2: Check Current Task Progress

Scan all JSON files in the docs/tasks/ directory and output a summary:

  1. In-progress modules: list all modules that have non-done tasks
  2. Pending tasks: list all tasks with status pending or in-progress, grouped by module
  3. Completed: count of done tasks / total tasks

Output format:

📋 Current Project Status
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

[Module 1] (3/5 complete)
  ✅ T001 - userApi (done)
  ✅ T002 - useUserStore (done)
  ✅ T003 - UserTable (done)
  ⏳ T004 - UserForm (in-progress)
  ⬜ T005 - UserPage (pending, depends on T004)

[Module 2] (0/3 complete)
  ⬜ T001 - orderApi (pending)
  ⬜ T002 - useOrderStore (pending, depends on T001)
  ⬜ T003 - OrderList (pending, depends on T002)

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Total: X modules, Y/Z tasks complete

Step 3: Wait for Instructions

After reporting, wait for my next instruction. Do not start coding on your own.

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 · 43 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 85ec386b78c6

Subscribe to this mod's changes

start is a command published in the GitHub repository Caspian-Sun/claude-code-workflow (10 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 384 tokens. 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.