cold-start

cold-start is a command for coding agents from mrvladd-d/memobank. It costs 32 tokens per session (1,499 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command that examines a project and routes work to the appropriate starting workflow, such as analysis, a product requirements document, codebase mapping, or skeleton setup. A skeleton is the initial project structure used to hold planning information.

In plain words
What is it for?
Starting work on a new idea or an existing codebase, selecting the next planning command, and identifying when codebase mapping or project principles are needed.
Why use it?
It removes guesswork about which development process to run first. It also checks whether the project contains code, planning documents, and agreed project principles.

Command

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/mrvladd-d/memobank/cold-start
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mrvladd-d/memobank

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README.md
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Per session 32 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,499 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 $0.00032 $0.01499
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00749
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00300
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00150

Measured 4d ago against content hash 519b3f414ed7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cold-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 4d 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.

skills/_shared/references/commands/cold-start.md · 66 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 66 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/cold-start — Bootstrap router (choose the right flow)

0) Предусловия

Эта команда предполагает, что skeleton уже создан (есть .memory-bank/). Если .memory-bank/ отсутствует — сначала создай skeleton (например, запусти init-mb.js), затем вернись сюда.

1) Определи сценарий (не угадывай)

Проверь:

  • Есть ли prd.md?
  • Есть ли .memory-bank/analysis/product-brief.md?
  • Есть ли .memory-bank/analysis/brainstorming.md или другой durable brainstorming artifact?
  • Есть ли .memory-bank/constitution.md и project_principles: ratified|partial, или principles только framework-default|skipped|missing?
  • Есть ли существенный код (например: src/, package.json, go.mod, Cargo.toml, requirements.txt)?
  • Насколько вход пользователя ясен: vague idea / clear concept / existing PRD?

Выбор:

  • Если есть код → это brownfield → сначала запусти /map-codebase для as-is baseline.
  • Если есть и код, и PRD / product brief / clear delta → сначала /map-codebase, затем если project principles не ratified/partial рекомендуй /constitution, потом /write-prd, /spec-init, /prd, /spec-design, /spec-improve FT-<NNN> и /prd-to-tasks FT-<NNN> как delta.
  • Если кода почти нет и есть PRD → это greenfield with existing PRD → если project principles не ratified/partial, рекомендуй /constitution, затем перенеси/нормализуй PRD через /write-prd, затем /spec-init, /prd, /spec-design, /spec-improve FT-<NNN> и /prd-to-tasks FT-<NNN>.
  • Если кода почти нет и есть .memory-bank/analysis/product-brief.md → если project principles уже ratified|partial, переходи к /write-prd; иначе рекомендуй /constitution, затем /write-prd, /spec-init, /prd, /spec-design, /spec-improve FT-<NNN> и /prd-to-tasks FT-<NNN>.
  • Если кода почти нет и концепт ясен, но PRD нет → запусти /brief; затем если project principles уже ratified|partial, переходи к /write-prd, иначе рекомендуй /constitution перед /write-prd; затем /spec-init, /prd, /spec-design, /spec-improve FT-<NNN> и /prd-to-tasks FT-<NNN>.
  • Если кода почти нет и идея сырая / направление нестабильно → запусти /analysis; /analysis должен направить в /brainstorm или /brief.
  • Если есть brainstorming artifact, но нет product brief и PRD → запусти /brief; затем если project principles уже ratified|partial, переходи к /write-prd, иначе рекомендуй /constitution перед /write-prd; затем /spec-init, /prd, /spec-design, /spec-improve FT-<NNN> и /prd-to-tasks FT-<NNN>.
  • Если нет кода и нет PRD / clear concept / analysis artifacts → это skeleton-only: попроси пользователя предоставить PRD, product brief или хотя бы требования текстом и остановись.

Read the full file on GitHub · 66 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. 4d ago First seen · 66 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A 519b3f414ed7

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cold-start is a command published in the GitHub repository mrvladd-d/memobank (55 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 1,499 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 2026-08-30.