cycle-start

A command that starts a Shape Up work cycle for an approved pitch and creates a hill chart, which tracks each scope from figuring-out to finished.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to validate a pitch, list its scopes, initialize their statuses, and move the pitch into building.
Why use it?
It confirms the pitch is ready and gives the team a shared starting state for the cycle.

Command for Claude Code

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/gosha70/code-copilot-team/cycle-start
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gosha70/code-copilot-team

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 554 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00000 $0.00554
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00277
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00111
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00055

Measured 2d ago against content hash a3283bb54ac2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cycle-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.

adapters/claude-code/.claude/commands/cycle-start.md · 67 lines

What it actually says

Begin a cycle for a bet pitch — initializes the hill chart and transitions the pitch to building.

Usage: /cycle-start <pitch-id>

Steps

1. Parse arguments

<pitch-id> is the directory name under specs/pitches/. If absent, list pitches with bet_status: bet and ask.

2. Verify state

Read specs/pitches/<pitch-id>/pitch.md. Required:

  • bet_status: bet. Refuse if any other status.
  • cycle: non-empty.

Run bash ~/.claude/templates/sdd/validate-pitch.sh --pitch-id <pitch-id>. Refuse on validator failure.

3. Parse scopes

From pitch.md, extract every ### S<N>: <name> heading under the ## Scopes section. Build the scope list as [{id: "S1", name: "..."}, ...].

Refuse if fewer than 3 or more than 7 scopes are found — that's a malformed pitch.

4. Generate hill.json

Write specs/pitches/<pitch-id>/hill.json matching the schema in ~/.claude/templates/sdd/hill-chart.json:

{
  "pitch_id": "<pitch-id>",
  "cycle": "<NN>",
  "updated_at": "<ISO-8601 now>",
  "scopes": [
    {
      "id": "S1",
      "name": "<scope name from pitch.md>",
      "status": "uphill",
      "last_updated": "<ISO-8601 now>"
    }
  ]
}

All scopes start at uphill. Refuse to overwrite an existing hill.json — that means the cycle was already started; the user should /hill to update existing scopes, not re-init.

5. Update pitch frontmatter

In pitch.md:

  • bet_status: from betbuilding

6. Append to bet log

Add a row: | <YYYY-MM-DD> | building | Cycle NN started; hill chart initialized. |

7. Re-validate

bash ~/.claude/templates/sdd/validate-pitch.sh --pitch-id <pitch-id>. Refuse if it fails — restore prior state.

8. Report

Print:

  • Pitch id, title, cycle number
  • Number of scopes initialized to uphill
  • Path to the new hill.json
  • Next step: "Use the scope-executor agent on a scope to begin work, or /hill <scope> down to mark a scope mechanical."
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 · 67 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A a3283bb54ac2

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cycle-start is a command published in the GitHub repository gosha70/code-copilot-team (6 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 554 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 2026-08-31.