What is ticket-start?

A command for beginning work on a ticket with automatic context and dependency checks. A ticket is a tracked piece of work in a project.

Use it to read a ticket's status, search and update shared hAIveMind memory, identify blockers, link dependencies, and record lessons from similar work.

It gathers related information and records the planned work before implementation, so agents start with shared context.

How lancejames221b/agent-hivemind configures Claude Code

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to lancejames221b/agent-hivemind. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lancejames221b/agent-hivemind/master/.claude/commands/ticket-start.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/lancejames221b/agent-hivemind

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md

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Per session 13 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.

When invoked 801 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00013	$0.00801
Opus 5.5	$0.00005	$0.00320
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00003	$0.00160
Haiku 4.5	$0.00001	$0.00080

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 2285283b8cfa, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ticket-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 2mo 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.

.claude/commands/ticket-start.md · 117 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 117 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

ticket-start - Begin Ticket Work with Hooks

Purpose

Start work on a ticket with automatic pre-work synchronization hooks that capture context, check related memories, and store work intentions in the hAIveMind collective.

When to Use

Begin New Work: Starting any ticket or task
Context Capture: Automatically gather related information
Memory Integration: Link ticket work to collective knowledge
Agent Coordination: Notify other agents of work beginning

Syntax

ticket-start <ticket_id> [project_id] [options]

Features

Automatic Pre-Work Hooks

When you start a ticket, the system automatically:

Reads ticket description and current status
Checks hAIveMind memory for related context
Stores work intention with expected outcomes
Identifies dependencies and blocking issues
Reviews lessons learned from similar work

Memory Integration

Searches collective memory for related work
Stores work context for other agents
Links dependencies and relationships
Captures lessons learned from similar tickets

Real-World Examples

Start Web Testing Ticket

ticket-start WEBTESTS-1 memory-mcp-project

Automatic Actions:

Reads WEBTESTS-1 ticket details
Searches for related web testing memories
Stores intention to start web testing work
Checks for UI/UX testing dependencies
Reviews lessons from previous web testing

Start API Development

ticket-start API-DEV-5 ewitness-project --verbose

Automatic Actions:

Captures API development context
Links to related API memories
Stores development work intention
Identifies authentication dependencies
Reviews API development best practices

Resume Previous Work

ticket-start INFRA-3 --resume

Automatic Actions:

Checks previous work context
Reviews any blocking issues resolved
Updates work intention
Syncs with latest infrastructure state

Expected Output

🚀 Starting Work on Ticket: WEBTESTS-1
🔄 Executing Pre-Work Synchronization Hooks...

✅ Pre-Work Hook Results:
   • pre_work_hook (0.245s)

📋 Ticket Context Captured:
   • Title: "Login form validation testing"
   • Status: todo → inprogress
   • Project: memory-mcp-project

🧠 Memory Integration:
   • Related memories found: 7
   • Dependencies identified: 2
   • Lessons learned retrieved: 3

💾 Work intention stored in hAIveMind collective
🤖 Other agents notified of work beginning

🎯 Ready to begin work! Use ticket-complete when finished.

Read the full file on GitHub · 117 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.

2mo ago First seen · 117 lines · 13 tokens per session scan A 2285283b8cfa

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ticket-start is a command published in the GitHub repository lancejames221b/agent-hivemind (7 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 13 tokens to every session and 801 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-08-31.

Project management

ticket-start next to 6 commands from other repositories
Mod	Type	Stars	Last push	Licence	Scan	Tokens	Works with
ticket-startlancejames221b/agent-hivemind	Command	7	3mo ago	MIT	A	13	Claude Code
checklistgithub/spec-kit	Command	148k	yesterday	MIT	A	13	Claude Code
clarifygithub/spec-kit	Command	148k	yesterday	MIT	A	27	Claude Code
specifygithub/spec-kit	Command	148k	yesterday	MIT	A	13	Claude Code
analyzegithub/spec-kit	Command	148k	yesterday	MIT	A	26	Claude Code
convergegithub/spec-kit	Command	148k	yesterday	MIT	A	35	Claude Code
implementgithub/spec-kit	Command	148k	yesterday	MIT	A	14	Claude Code

agent-hivemind: Command for Claude Code

Borrowing it

Wrote this? Show the measurements

What it costs to keep this loaded

Grade A, and why

Nothing flagged

How it starts

ticket-start - Begin Ticket Work with Hooks

Purpose

When to Use

Syntax

Features

Automatic Pre-Work Hooks

Memory Integration

Real-World Examples

Start Web Testing Ticket

Start API Development

Resume Previous Work

Expected Output

What this file has done since we first saw it

ticket-start compared with commands from other repositories