start

A first-use welcome and setup command for BetterCallClaude. It checks connections to MCP servers, helps create a playbook, and shows examples based on your profile.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when starting with BetterCallClaude, checking its connections, creating a personal playbook, or learning example requests.
Why use it?
It provides initial guidance instead of leaving you to discover the available workflow on your own. It also checks whether required connections are working.

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/fedec65/bettercallclaude/start
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fedec65/bettercallclaude
Per session 28 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,423 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 $0.00028 $0.01423
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00711
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00285
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00142

Measured 2d ago against content hash ee08b65fe65f, 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 2d 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.

bettercallclaude/commands/start.md · 130 lines

The source is not reproduced here

Licensed AGPL-3.0

The repository is licensed AGPL-3.0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.

Read it on GitHub

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. 2d ago First seen · 130 lines · 28 tokens per session scan A ee08b65fe65f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

start is a command published in the GitHub repository fedec65/bettercallclaude (37 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed AGPL-3.0. It adds 28 tokens to every session and 1,423 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 2026-08-30.

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