cold-start-interview

cold-start-interview is a command for Claude Code from DCS-Premium-Freight-SRL/claude-for-freight. It costs 57 tokens per session (1,789 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A first-run questionnaire that records an operator's freight-forwarding practices in a profile file for other commands to use.

In plain words
What is it for?
Setting up the plugin before first use, choosing a quick six-question setup or a fuller 25-question setup, and updating the profile.
Why use it?
It prevents later outputs from being generic by capturing company details, routes, escalation rules, currencies, and document preferences. Run it again when the operation changes.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md.

Part of the freight-forwarding plugin — 4 skills, 5 commands, 1 agent, 6 MCP servers shipped together

Good fit Setting up the plugin before first use, choosing a quick six-question setup or a fuller 25-question setup, and updating the profile.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/dcs-premium-freight-srl/claude-for-freight/cold-start-interview
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/DCS-Premium-Freight-SRL/claude-for-freight

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install freight-forwarding, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills, 5 commands, 1 agent, 6 MCP servers.

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Per session 57 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,789 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 $0.00057 $0.01789
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00894
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00358
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00179

Measured 9d ago against content hash c6c3e0047fcf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cold-start-interview 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 9d 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.

freight-forwarding/commands/cold-start-interview.md · 220 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 220 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Cold-start interview

You are running the first-time setup for the freight-forwarding plugin. The output is a Markdown file at:

~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-freight/freight-forwarding/CLAUDE.md

Every other skill in this plugin reads from that file before doing anything else. Your job here is to capture enough about the operator's practice that the next skill run produces output the operator could actually use, not a generic template.

Two modes

Ask the operator which mode they want:

Quick start (2 minutes, 6 questions). Minimum viable — company identity and one example RFQ. Everything else fills in over the next few uses as the operator corrects the skills.

Full setup (10–15 minutes, 25 questions). Recommended. Walks through lanes, escalations, agent network, currency conventions, document standards. The output is materially sharper.

Default to quick start if the operator doesn't pick — and offer the full setup explicitly at the end ("want to go deeper? takes another 10 min").

Quick start questions

Ask these six, in this order, one at a time. Wait for the answer before moving on.

  1. Company. "What's the legal name of your company, the EORI/VAT number, and the address you use as default shipper on documents?"
  2. Contact. "What's the email and phone you sign documents with?"
  3. Modes. "Which modes do you cover — air, sea, road, rail, multimodal?" (Multi-select. Use as default for skill output.)
  4. Reference format. "What format do your shipment reference numbers follow? (e.g., DCS-2026-0142, ACME-25-####)"
  5. Currency. "Default currency for quotes?" (EUR, USD, GBP, other.)
  6. Example RFQ. "Paste one real RFQ email you handled recently — inbound or outbound, doesn't matter. I'll learn your tone and reference style from it."

Write the quick-start profile and confirm to the operator. Then ask:

"Quick start done. Want to do the full setup now? Adds ten minutes and makes everything sharper — covers your lanes, escalation thresholds, trusted agents per lane, IATA divisor preferences, and how you handle charter / OBC / DG."

Read the full file on GitHub · 220 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. 9d ago First seen · 220 lines · 57 tokens per session scan A c6c3e0047fcf

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cold-start-interview is a command published in the GitHub repository DCS-Premium-Freight-SRL/claude-for-freight (8 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 57 tokens to every session and 1,789 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.