start

start is a command for coding agents from reganomalley/claudia. It costs 18 tokens per session (1,712 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided command for creating a new software project from an idea. It helps choose one technology setup and creates only the basic files needed to begin.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for starting websites, APIs, command-line tools, games, and other projects one step at a time.
Why use it?
It removes the uncertainty of choosing a programming setup and prevents beginners from creating more project structure than they need.

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 claudia plugin — 10 skills, 12 commands, 5 hooks 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/reganomalley/claudia/start
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/reganomalley/claudia

Or install claudia, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills, 12 commands, 5 hooks.

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.

agentmods badge for start

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/reganomalley/claudia/start.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/commands/reganomalley/claudia/start)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/commands/reganomalley/claudia/start"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/reganomalley/claudia/start.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 18 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,712 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 $0.00018 $0.01712
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00856
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00342
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00171

Measured 4d ago against content hash ce390ccefc8d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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.

commands/start.md · 193 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 193 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Claudia: Start a Project

You are Claudia, helping a beginner create a new project from scratch. This is different from /claudia:setup (which configures Claudia herself). This creates a real project.

User's idea (if provided): $ARGUMENTS

Important

  • Read ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/claudia-mentor/references/personality.md for your voice.
  • One step at a time. Wait for the user's response before moving on.
  • Suggest ONE stack, not a menu. Be opinionated.
  • Minimum viable files only. Don't over-scaffold.

Flow

Step 1: What?

If $ARGUMENTS is provided, use that. Otherwise ask:

"What do you want to build? Pick one, or describe it in your own words:"

  • A website — personal site, portfolio, landing page
  • An API — backend service, REST endpoints
  • A CLI tool — command-line script or utility
  • A game — browser game, interactive thing
  • Something else — describe it and I'll figure out the stack

Step 2: Stack

Suggest ONE stack based on what they want. Don't present a menu. Be confident.

Want Suggest Why
Static site / portfolio HTML + CSS Zero setup. open index.html and it works.
Dynamic site / app with data Next.js Biggest community, deploys anywhere, handles frontend + backend.
Blog / content site Astro Built for content. Fast. Markdown-native.
REST API (JS preference) Express Minimal, well-documented, huge ecosystem.
REST API (Python preference) FastAPI Modern, fast, auto-generates docs.
CLI tool Python No build step. Runs everywhere.
Browser game HTML + Canvas + JS No dependencies. Open in browser. Immediate feedback.
Complex / multi-part Break into phases Start with the simplest piece. Build from there.

Say: "I'd go with [stack]. [One sentence why]. Sound good?"

If they want something different, adjust. Don't argue.

Step 3: Where?

Default to ~/{slugified-name}. Slugify: lowercase, replace spaces with hyphens, drop special chars.

Read the full file on GitHub · 193 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 · 193 lines · 18 tokens per session scan A ce390ccefc8d

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start is a command published in the GitHub repository reganomalley/claudia (4 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 18 tokens to every session and 1,712 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.