start

A command that starts a Dash blockchain node and the Docker containers it needs to run.

In plain words
What is it for?
Starting all node services, starting only platform services, forcing a start, or waiting for readiness in scripts and development workflows.
Why use it?
It removes the need to launch each service separately and can wait until the node is ready for connections.

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/dashpay/platform/start
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dashpay/platform
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 438 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 $0.00438
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00219
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00088
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00044

Measured yesterday against content hash 12a3a43f86b3, 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.

packages/dashmate/docs/commands/start.md · 58 lines

What it actually says

start

The start command launches a Dash node and its associated services.

Usage

dashmate start [OPTIONS]

Options

Option Description Default
-c, --config=<name> Configuration name to use Uses default config if not specified
-w, --wait-for-readiness Wait for nodes to be ready before returning false
-p, --platform Start only platform services (not Core) false
-f, --force Force start even if any services are already running false
-v, --verbose Use verbose mode for output false

Description

This command starts a Dash node using the specified configuration (or the default configuration if none is specified). It will start all the Docker containers required for the node to function.

By default, the command starts both Core and Platform services. If you only need to run the Platform services, use the --platform flag.

The --wait-for-readiness flag is useful in scripts or when you need to ensure the node is fully operational before proceeding. When this flag is set, the command will wait until all services are fully initialized and ready to accept connections.

If any services are already running, the command will normally fail. Use the --force flag to stop and restart those services.

Examples

# Start node with default configuration
dashmate start

# Start node with a specific configuration
dashmate start --config=testnet

# Start only platform services for a specific configuration
dashmate start --config=mainnet --platform

# Start node and wait until it's ready
dashmate start --wait-for-readiness

# Force restart of a running node
dashmate start --force
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 · 58 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 12a3a43f86b3

Subscribe to this mod's changes

start is a command published in the GitHub repository dashpay/platform (92 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 438 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 2026-08-30.