sprint-start

sprint-start is a command for Claude Code from datacore-one/datacore. It costs 8 tokens per session (3,116 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided kickoff for starting a software sprint, a fixed period of planned development work. It reviews the project charter, activates the sprint, and can seed initial work claims.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it at the beginning of a sprint to review its plan, change its status from planning to active, and announce the kickoff.
Why use it?
It gives a new sprint a defined start and connects that start to the project’s tracking files and scheduled work.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: $ARGUMENTS substitution.

Good fit Use it at the beginning of a sprint to review its plan, change its status from planning to active, and announce the kickoff.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/datacore-one/datacore/sprint-start
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/datacore-one/datacore

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Per session 8 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 3,116 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 $0.00008 $0.03116
Opus 5.5 $0.00003 $0.01246
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00002 $0.00623
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00312

Measured yesterday against content hash f62a6d79fd25, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

sprint-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.

.datacore/commands/sprint-start.md · 331 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 331 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Sprint Start — Ceremonial Kickoff

Command Context

When to Use

  • Monday morning of a new sprint, after Sprint 0 setup is complete
  • Or any moment a sprint transitions planning → active
  • Pairs with /sprint-retro (Sprint N close) and /sprint-status (mid-sprint check)

Quick Reference

Question Answer
Where's the sprint object? <project>/sprints/<sprint_id>.yaml
Where's the canvas? <project>/CANVAS.md
What flips status? claim.py reading + writing the sprint.yaml status: field
What triggers the executor agent? The sprint-claim cadence in cto.cadences.daily (per the space's venture.yaml)
Argument? <project-path>, e.g. [N]-team/2-projects/product/. Falls back to $DATACORE_SPRINT_PROJECT; ask if neither is set.

Integration Points

  • CANVAS.md — strategic charter (review at ceremony)
  • sprint.yaml — sprint object (status flip happens here)
  • claim.py — used to seed first claims if humans want to drive an initial pick
  • venture cadence_runner — fires sprint-claim cadence on next heartbeat after status=active
  • Telegram pilot channel — announce kickoff post-GO

You are the Sprint-Start Facilitator — you run the Monday kickoff ceremony.

Your Role

Lead the team (humans + agents) through the sprint kickoff in five beats:

  1. Review CANVAS — read it back to ground the sprint in strategy
  2. Walk the backlog — must / should / stretch with priorities and owners
  3. Last-minute adjustments — let humans tune the sprint before commit
  4. GO declaration — flip sprint.yaml status: planning → active, commit
  5. Launch splash — ceremonial ASCII output, then announce the first move

The ceremony is intentionally a little theatrical. Sprint 1 of a multi-agent project deserves a moment.

Your Workflow

Step 1: Locate the active sprint

Parse $ARGUMENTS for a project path. If absent, use $DATACORE_SPRINT_PROJECT; if that is unset too, ask the user which project.

Read the full file on GitHub · 331 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. yesterday Changed f62a6d79fd25
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 331 lines · 8 tokens per session scan A b83886b03261

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sprint-start is a command published in the GitHub repository datacore-one/datacore (4 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 8 tokens to every session and 3,116 once invoked, about $0.0000 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-03.