Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to DimitriGeelen/agentic-engineering-framework. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DimitriGeelen/agentic-engineering-framework/master/.claude/commands/start-work.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/DimitriGeelen/agentic-engineering-frameworkWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/commands/dimitrigeelen/agentic-engineering-framework/start-work)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/commands/dimitrigeelen/agentic-engineering-framework/start-work"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/dimitrigeelen/agentic-engineering-framework/start-work/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/commands/dimitrigeelen/agentic-engineering-framework/start-work"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/dimitrigeelen/agentic-engineering-framework/start-work.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00000 | $0.00397 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00000 | $0.00159 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00000 | $0.00079 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00000 | $0.00040 |
Grade A, and why
start-work 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 1mo 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.
What it actually says
/start-work - Task-First Gate for Agentic Engineering Framework
Before beginning ANY implementation work, execute this workflow. This command enforces the core principle: "Nothing gets done without a task."
When To Use
ALWAYS use before:
- Implementing a feature, bugfix, or refactor
- Following a plan
- Executing any skill that produces code changes
Step 1: Check Context
Run in parallel:
cat .context/working/focus.yaml— check ifcurrent_taskis setls .tasks/active/— list active tasks
If current_task is already set and valid: skip to Step 3.
Step 2: Create or Resume Task
If no active task for this work:
New work:
fw work-on "DESCRIPTION" --type TYPE
Resuming known task:
fw work-on T-XXX
TYPE is one of: build, specification, design, test, refactor, decommission
Do NOT proceed to implementation until this step completes successfully.
Step 3: Confirm Gate
Verify:
current_taskin focus.yaml is set- Task file exists in
.tasks/active/ - Task status is
started-work
Print confirmation:
Task gate passed: T-XXX ({task_name})
Proceeding with implementation.
Step 4: Proceed
Now proceed with implementation. Optionally use /explore or /plan if the task needs it.
Rules
- This gate takes precedence over ALL plugin skills
- "Invoke skills BEFORE any response" means: after this gate passes
- If a skill says "implement now" — this gate comes first
- The PreToolUse hook will block Write/Edit without an active task anyway
- This command exists to make the agent aware BEFORE hitting the hook
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.
- 1mo ago First seen · 63 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 7fb9d8a953a2
start-work is a command published in the GitHub repository DimitriGeelen/agentic-engineering-framework (18 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 397 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 2026-09-04.
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speckit.constitution
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speckit.plan
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