initiative

initiative is a command for coding agents from lookatitude/guild. It costs 47 tokens per session (1,236 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A durable work container for a goal that spans multiple sessions, with commands for creating, tracking, resuming, changing, archiving, restoring, and closing it.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for long-running projects that need explicit goals, progress tracking, continuation, or controlled closure.
Why use it?
It preserves progress and work items for ongoing efforts instead of treating each command run as a one-off task.

Command

Installs and runs on its own, but its text points at files inside its plugin — anything it tells you to read at a ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} path is only there once the plugin is installed. Installing the plugin gets both.

Part of the guild plugin — 19 skills, 22 commands, 13 agents, 10 hooks, 2 MCP servers 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/lookatitude/guild/initiative
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/lookatitude/guild

Or install guild, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 19 skills, 22 commands, 13 agents, 10 hooks, 2 MCP servers.

Wrote 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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 47 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,236 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 $0.00047 $0.01236
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00618
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00247
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00124

Measured today against content hash 1620643a3a8b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

initiative 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 today.

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.

commands/initiative.md · 87 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 87 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/guild:initiative — durable-work noun (opt-in)

The opt-in durable-goal container. new|status|resume|update|close are the primary user-facing lifecycle sub-verbs; list|archive|restore are operational sub-verbs on the same noun.

Full lifecycle: docs/v2/initiatives.html (umbrella workspace canonical design set — §Registry & directory, §Definition ledger, §The D8 close gate). Sub-verb implementation: skills/meta/initiative/SKILL.md.

Sub-verbs

Sub-verb Drives Gates Output
new create a durable goal container definition-ready gate I .guild/initiatives/active/<id>/initiative.yaml, definition-ledger
status read initiative progress / work-items / release / doc-sync R prints state
list list active initiatives (default) w/ cross-cut rollup; --archived shows all R prints state
resume re-enter at the next work-item next gate I continues initiative runs
update amend the definition-ledger (--add-goal "…") ledger-change confirm I updated ledger
archive move to archived w/o close-gate release path (operational) archive confirm I active/<id>/ → archived
restore restore archived → active (operational) restore confirm I archived → active/<id>/
close requires release evidence + doc-sync reconciliation (D8) release-readiness + doc-sync gate I active/<id>/release/** → archived

Opt-in attachment binding

A one-off /guild:guild run does not create an initiative. An initiative is attached only when (a) the user runs /guild:initiative … explicitly, (b) --initiative=<id|new> is passed, or (c) the brief carries a durable-goal signal — in which case /guild:guild asks "attach to an initiative? [new / existing / one-off]" rather than auto-attaching. One-off runs are first-class.

Run-start preflight (settings-control-and-tmux U3/U6)

Before the initiative skill is invoked — and before run-trace start — the run-trace CLI runs this preflight for you — you do not call runStartPreflight yourself.

Read the full file on GitHub · 87 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. today Changed · +2 lines 1620643a3a8b
  2. 4d ago First seen · 85 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A 4f7b655a7d74

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initiative is a command published in the GitHub repository lookatitude/guild (7 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 1,236 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-31.