wave-start

wave-start is a command for coding agents from Harshvardhan86/claude-wave-plugin. It costs 75 tokens per session (763 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command that starts a planned engineering “wave,” meaning a feature broken into a fixed sequence of work phases. It can run the full 17-phase process or a shorter five-phase demo.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to begin a full feature workflow or a small UI feature demonstration by passing a feature description, with optional `--demo` mode.
Why use it?
It gives feature work a repeatable starting process instead of leaving the agent to decide the order of planning, coding, and checks. It also checks the working folder, Git repository, branch, and uncommitted changes before starting.

Command

Part of the claude-wave-plugin plugin — 7 skills, 2 commands shipped together

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/harshvardhan86/claude-wave-plugin/wave-start
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Harshvardhan86/claude-wave-plugin

Or install claude-wave-plugin, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills, 2 commands.

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README.md
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Per session 75 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 763 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00075 $0.00763
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.00381
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00153
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00076

Measured 5d ago against content hash 948e771d6480, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

wave-start scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 5d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

allowed-tools: "Bash(git:*), Bash(npm:*), Bash(pnpm:*), Bash(yarn:*), Bash(npx:*), Bash(curl:*)"
commands/wave-start.md · 60 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 60 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Start a new wave

Context

  • Working dir: !pwd
  • Git repo: !git rev-parse --is-inside-work-tree 2>/dev/null && echo "Yes" || echo "No"
  • Branch: !git branch --show-current 2>/dev/null || echo "n/a"
  • Dirty tree: !git status --porcelain 2>/dev/null | head -1 | grep -q . && echo "Yes (commit or stash before starting a wave)" || echo "Clean"

Instructions

The user invoked /wave-start with arguments: $ARGUMENTS

Step 1 — parse the mode

  • If $ARGUMENTS starts with --demo, set mode = demo. The feature description is everything after --demo.
  • Otherwise, set mode = full. The feature description is the entire $ARGUMENTS.

If the feature description is empty, refuse and remind the user of the syntax:

/wave-start "<feature description>"           # full v2 framework (17 base phases + conditional [DR]/[CR] gates)
/wave-start --demo "<feature description>"    # trimmed 5-phase demo subset

Step 2 — invoke the wave-orchestrator skill

Invoke the wave-orchestrator skill, passing:

  • The mode (full or demo)
  • The feature description

The orchestrator owns everything from here. Do not implement, dispatch, or instruct further yourself. The orchestrator's SKILL.md defines exactly how each mode runs.

Step 3 — observe the rules

Both modes enforce:

  • Lean, dedicated context per dispatch (no combined phases)
  • Strict TDD: RED before GREEN, watch tests fail before any code is written
  • All bugs P0; user decides how to fix
  • "tsc passes" is NEVER hand-off evidence — live stack + screenshot is
  • Visual assertions use getComputedStyle() and boundingBox, never toBeVisible() alone
  • No AI traces in files, commits, or PRs

full mode additionally:

  • Loads framework/SKILL.md and selected framework/references/*.md per phase
  • Routes dispatches to Opus / Sonnet / Haiku per framework/references/10-model-routing.md
  • Uses isolation: "worktree" on writing dispatches
  • Runs Dashboard and long Playwright via run_in_background
  • Engages [DR] at Phase 1.5 whenever the wave ships UI; skips it silently otherwise
  • Includes BC, SEA, BSEA, DS, OA, TEET-TC, BTEET, BTEET-X, version bump, commit, cleanup, checkpoint, dashboard

Read the full file on GitHub · 60 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. 5d ago First seen · 60 lines · 75 tokens per session scan A 948e771d6480

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wave-start is a command published in the GitHub repository Harshvardhan86/claude-wave-plugin (8 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 75 tokens to every session and 763 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.