start-here

start-here is a command for Claude Code from Owl-Listener/designer-skills. It costs 33 tokens per session (1,331 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command that identifies where someone is in a design process and routes them to one next command. It uses stages from understanding a problem through shipping the result.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to choose an entry point for a design task, name the current stage, and identify the next two commands or stages to follow.
Why use it?
It reduces the choice between many possible starting points and helps avoid doing later work before earlier decisions are clear.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Part of the designer-toolkit plugin — 7 skills, 4 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it to choose an entry point for a design task, name the current stage, and identify the next two commands or stages to follow.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/owl-listener/designer-skills/start-here
About the project

Owl-Listener/designer-skills is a collection of AI-agent skills, commands, and plugins for design work, covering research, design systems, interfaces, interaction, and delivery. Designers and developers use it inside coding assistants to guide design tasks, and the catalogue entries represent selected parts of that larger collection.

Owl-Listener/designer-skills · 2,572 stars · on GitHub

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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Owl-Listener/designer-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install designer-toolkit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills, 4 commands.

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Per session 33 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,331 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00033 $0.01331
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00665
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00266
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00133

Measured 3d ago against content hash 4da5f543a8f7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

start-here 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 3d 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.

designer-toolkit/commands/start-here.md · 38 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 38 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/start-here

Route a designer to one entry point in the collection, then get out of the way.

Steps

  1. Read the situation — Place what the user gave you on two axes: how much is already decided (nothing, a problem, a direction, a built screen), and what they owe someone (a decision, a spec, a critique, a plan). If they gave you nothing, or gave you a mood rather than a situation — "it feels off", "something's wrong" — ask the one question that would place it, then route. One question, not three.
  2. Name the stage — Say which stage they are in and why, in one line. The stages run understand → frame → explore → make → validate → ship. Naming it wrong costs more than any later step, so state it plainly and let them correct you.
  3. Route to one command — Give exactly one entry point from the map below, never a menu. If two fit, pick the earlier stage: starting upstream is cheap, discovering you skipped a stage after the work is built is not. If the request holds two jobs — build it and prove it worked — route the first and name the second as what follows.
  4. Say when it isn't here — If nothing in the map fits, say so and name the collection that does, rather than routing to the nearest row. Hiring, growth, and org work are design-leadership-skills. Running a programme — roadmaps, stakeholders, delivery — is ux-pgm-skills. Designing an AI product's behaviour is ai-design-skills. Accessibility has an audit and a test plan here, as skills rather than commands, so name those before sending anyone away; the depth — cognitive, adaptive, multi-modal — is inclusive-design-skills. A confident wrong route costs more than an honest "not in this collection".
  5. Show the sequence — Name the two commands that follow, so the path is visible rather than implied, and say which stages this particular job can skip and why.
  6. Hand off — Run the routed command, or state the exact line to type. If its plugin is not installed, give the install command first: /plugin install <plugin>@designer-skills. Do not summarise the collection.

Read the full file on GitHub · 38 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. 3d ago First seen · 38 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A 4da5f543a8f7

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start-here is a command published in the GitHub repository Owl-Listener/designer-skills (2,572 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 1,331 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 2026-09-05.