Getting it into your agent
It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/joncovington/MEICAgentnpx agentmods add commands/joncovington/meicagent/meic-startWrote 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/joncovington/meicagent/meic-start)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/commands/joncovington/meicagent/meic-start"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/joncovington/meicagent/meic-start/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/joncovington/meicagent/meic-start"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/joncovington/meicagent/meic-start.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 | $0.00147 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00000 | $0.00059 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00000 | $0.00029 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00000 | $0.00015 |
Grade A, and why
MEIC-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 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 the full MEICAgent session: streamer and agent loop.
Step 1 — DXLink Streamer
Check if the streamer is running:
python src/streamer.py --status
If running is false: start it as a hidden background process.
Start-Process python -ArgumentList 'src\streamer.py' -WorkingDirectory $PWD -WindowStyle Hidden
Step 3 — Agent loop
Invoke the /loop skill with the prompt:
Execute the next MEIC agent loop iteration following the operating instructions in CLAUDE.md.
Tell the user: "Startup complete — agent loop started. The loop will self-pace each iteration."
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 · 24 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A f85be680eea9
MEIC-start is a command published in the GitHub repository joncovington/MEICAgent (6 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 147 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.
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