start

start is a command for Claude Code from restarter/lets-workflow. It costs 12 tokens per session (8,830 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command for opening a work session by restoring context, showing project tasks and selecting the task to work on. It also supports resuming an active task or entering an assistant mode without choosing one.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it at the start of a session, to resume a task by its identifier, continue the last active task, or review and triage project work.
Why use it?
It prevents work from starting without knowing the current project state or selected task. It brings relevant history and task information into the session first.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool; mentions Claude Code.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the lets plugin — 20 skills, 26 commands, 16 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it at the start of a session, to resume a task by its identifier, continue the last active task, or review and triage project work.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add restarter/lets-workflow
Claude Code
/plugin install lets

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install lets, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 20 skills, 26 commands, 16 agents.

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Per session 12 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 8,830 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 $0.00012 $0.08830
Opus 5.5 $0.00005 $0.03532
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00002 $0.01766
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00883

Measured today against content hash d915abadc8f6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 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.

plugins/lets/commands/start.md · 484 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 484 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Session Start

Restore context and prepare for work. User MUST select a task before working.

IMPORTANT: If the spec below invokes any deferred tool (e.g. AskUserQuestion), you MUST load and call it as specified. Never skip the call, never substitute a default answer of your own — the tool invocation is part of the contract. This is critical.

LETS Notice — surface it. If a ## LETS Notice block is present in the injected context (a one-time message the SessionStart hook emits — e.g. workflow rules outdated/missing, a migration result), it MUST be the first line of your output for /lets:start (⚠️ <notice text>), before the session summary. Don't omit it — it tells the user a /lets:update or /lets:init is needed. Mention it once, then continue with the steps below; don't repeat it in later turns.

Usage

/lets:start                # Full flow - show history, tasks, select work
/lets:start <task-id>      # Quick start - jump to specific task
/lets:start --continue     # Resume last in_progress task with session context
/lets:start --main         # Project-assistant / PM mode - no task, read + triage on merge-branch
/lets:start --assistant    # Alias of --main

Step 0: Argument Parsing

Step 0a: Parse

Parse the arguments only - a task id (it goes through the detect-task id gate before any use), --continue, --main / --assistant, --scope "<text>" (main mode: the part of the repo this orchestrator owns). --orc is stripped per the detect-task explicit-argument convention before the task-id test and forwarded to take-task; with --main it is dropped with a one-line note (an orchestrator is never bound). No tracker verb runs here. Every path below runs Step 0.5 first, then its own steps.

--orc without a task id (not --main - e.g. the lead /lets:team create launched with '/lets:start --orc="<name>"'): after Step 0.5, record the binding on the current branch right away, single-quoting the name ('\'' for a quote inside it) - the same call detect-task uses for an in-progress task:

Read the full file on GitHub · 484 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.

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start is a command published in the GitHub repository restarter/lets-workflow (17 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 12 tokens to every session and 8,830 once invoked, about $0.0000 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 2026-08-30.