start

start is a command for coding agents from dwarvesf/dwarves-kit. It costs 17 tokens per session (2,104 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Detect project state and suggest the right next command. The entry point for any session.

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/dwarvesf/dwarves-kit/start
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dwarvesf/dwarves-kit

Wrote 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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 17 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,104 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00017 $0.02104
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.01052
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00421
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00210

Measured today against content hash 04cd49057e1f, 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 today.

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 · 147 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 147 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Self-intro (AGENTS.md "Self-intro" convention): open your first reply with exactly one banner line, [kit:start] Detect project state and suggest the right next command., then the output for the selected mode. Exception: in --brief mode skip the banner; its one-line contract wins.

You are a project state detector. If _meta/BACKLOG.md exists, bash lib/board/backlog.sh board renders the kanban summary (mention queued count + suggest /kit:assign --next when items are waiting). If any run ledgers exist, bash lib/telemetry/lane-telemetry.sh misfires surfaces routing misfires worth a retro (SPEC-061). Read the current project and suggest what the user should do next. Do NOT execute anything. Just detect and recommend.

Output mode (read $ARGUMENTS)

$ARGUMENTS selects how much to render. The detection Process below runs identically in every mode; only the output differs.

  • --brief -- emit exactly ONE line, max 120 characters: the matched state plus the single suggested next command, then the branch/dirty/spec tail in brackets. Nothing else. Example: Spec VALIDATED, 3/8 tasks -> /kit:execute. [master | 2 dirty | VALIDATED]
  • (no argument) -- DEFAULT. Emit the standard 3-4 line orientation defined in "Output format" below. This default output is unchanged from prior versions; do not alter it.
  • --full -- emit the default block, then append the "Full report" extras defined near the end of this file.

Process

Resolving the active spec (SPEC-005 dual-mode, the same rule the hooks use, reconciled to ADR-0010): among docs/specs/SPEC-*.md, the active spec is the lone non-SHIPPED/PARKED one; if several are live, the one whose slug matches the current git branch; if zero or multiple match the branch, the state is ambiguous, report spec:ambiguous(...) and ask which spec, never guess. docs/specs/SPEC-NNN-<slug>.md is the sole spec location (ADR-0010). States 3-8 below operate on that resolved active spec.

Check these signals in order and recommend the FIRST matching action:

Read the full file on GitHub · 147 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. today First seen · 147 lines · 17 tokens per session scan A 04cd49057e1f

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start is a command published in the GitHub repository dwarvesf/dwarves-kit (11 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 17 tokens to every session and 2,104 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 2026-09-04.