start

A session-start command that loads project notes, saved memory, recent session history, and current changes before work begins.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when starting or resuming work to check the date, review recent Git commits, inspect context files, and create a short briefing.
Why use it?
It reduces the need to reconstruct project context manually and can reveal changes or outdated state files from earlier sessions.

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/conorbronsdon/agent-memory-kit/start
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/conorbronsdon/agent-memory-kit
Per session 16 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 423 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 $0.00016 $0.00423
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00211
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00085
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00042

Measured yesterday against content hash d04dc14325c3, 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 yesterday.

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 · 53 lines

What it actually says

/start — Begin Session

Recall: load the context, state, and memory index so you know where things stand before doing anything.

1. Date

Run date +%Y-%m-%d (TODAY) and note the day of week.

2. What changed since last session

Find the most recent session log, then:

git log --oneline --since="<last session date>"

Flag any context or state files modified since the last session — these may hold updates from another agent run or a manual edit. Mention changed files in the briefing.

3. Load context (in order)

  • CONTEXT.md — who the user is + routing rules.
  • state/current.md — active priorities, open threads, recent context.
  • memory/MEMORY.md — the memory index (one line per durable fact). Pull a detail file only if a line looks relevant to today.
  • sessions/{TODAY}.md if it exists (resuming today), else the most recent sessions/*.md for continuity.

4. State freshness

Check the "Last updated" line on state files and flag staleness — this catches drift from skipped /end runs.

File Stale if Flag
state/current.md > 3 days "⚠ current.md is N days stale"

If fresh, one line: "State: fresh."

5. Brief

Keep it short:

  • Date and day.
  • State freshness (one line if fresh).
  • Files changed since last session (one line each, or "no changes").
  • Top 2–3 priorities from state/current.md.
  • Time-sensitive open threads.
  • Ask what to focus on.

If resuming today's session, acknowledge what's already covered and pick up from there.

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. yesterday First seen · 53 lines · 16 tokens per session scan A d04dc14325c3

Subscribe to this mod's changes

start is a command published in the GitHub repository conorbronsdon/agent-memory-kit (2 stars, last pushed 28d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 16 tokens to every session and 423 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 2026-08-31.