start

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

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/restarter/lets-workflow/start
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/restarter/lets-workflow
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 4,170 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 $0.00012 $0.04170
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.02085
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00834
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00417

Measured 2d ago against content hash 938051a4abbd, 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 2d 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.

plugins/lets/commands/start.md · 298 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 298 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.

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

If <task-id> provided (e.g., /lets:start lets-rmcwo):

  • Skip Steps 1, 3, 5 (session history, orient, task selection)
  • Run Step 2 (git state) briefly
  • the tracker's show + comment-list for <task-id> — read the FULL description and ALL comments, never truncate
  • Jump to Step 6 (branch) with this task

If --continue:

  • Run Step 1 (session history) - important for context recovery
  • the tracker's list-by-status (in_progress) - find task(s)
  • If exactly 1 in_progress -> use it, skip Step 5
  • If multiple -> show selection with context from recent sessions
  • If none -> fall through to full flow

If --main or --assistant provided (project-assistant / PM mode):

  • Deliberate NO-TASK session stance. Do NOT select, claim, or auto-create a task.
  • Precedence: mutually exclusive with <task-id> and --continue. If an explicit task-id or --continue is ALSO present, the explicit task wins (run the normal task flow) and --main is ignored - tell the user it was dropped because a task was specified.
  • Skip Step 5 (Task Selection), Step 6 (Take Task), Step 8 (Task Size Assessment) - all task-bound.
  • Run Step 1 (session history), Step 2 (git state). The orient snapshot is rendered once by Main Mode M1 (below), AFTER the session-boundary write - do NOT also run Step 3 (that would render orient twice).
  • Then go to ## Main Mode (below) instead of Steps 4-9.

Read the full file on GitHub · 298 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. 2d ago First seen · 298 lines · 12 tokens per session scan A 938051a4abbd

Subscribe to this mod's changes

start is a command published in the GitHub repository restarter/lets-workflow (17 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 12 tokens to every session and 4,170 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 2026-08-30.