requirements-start

requirements-start is a command for Claude Code from rizethereum/claude-code-requirements-builder. It costs 0 tokens per session (1,134 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command workflow for collecting and organizing requirements before building a feature. It creates dated notes, tracks progress, examines the codebase, and prepares questions for the requester.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when beginning work such as a user-profile feature to record the request, understand the system structure, and gather answers about behavior, data, integrations, and scale.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of starting implementation with unclear goals, missing project context, or overlooked integrations and constraints.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: $ARGUMENTS substitution.

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/rizethereum/claude-code-requirements-builder/requirements-start
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rizethereum/claude-code-requirements-builder

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,134 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 5.1 $0.00000 $0.01134
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00567
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00227
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00113

Measured 6d ago against content hash e49d1345801c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

requirements-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 6d 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/requirements-start.md · 123 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 123 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Start Requirements Gathering

Begin gathering requirements for: $ARGUMENTS

Full Workflow:

Phase 1: Initial Setup & Codebase Analysis

  1. Create timestamp-based folder: requirements/YYYY-MM-DD-HHMM-[slug]
  2. Extract slug from $ARGUMENTS (e.g., "add user profile" → "user-profile")
  3. Create initial files:
    • 00-initial-request.md with the user's request
    • metadata.json with status tracking
  4. Read and update requirements/.current-requirement with folder name
  5. Use mcp__RepoPrompt__get_file_tree (if available) to understand overall structure:
    • Get high-level architecture overview
    • Identify main components and services
    • Understand technology stack
    • Note patterns and conventions

Phase 2: Context Discovery Questions

  1. Generate the five most important yes/no questions to understand the problem space:
    • Questions informed by codebase structure
    • Questions about user interactions and workflows
    • Questions about similar features users currently use
    • Questions about data/content being worked with
    • Questions about external integrations or third-party services
    • Questions about performance or scale expectations
    • Write all questions to 01-discovery-questions.md with smart defaults
    • Begin asking questions one at a time proposing the question with a smart default option
    • Only after all questions are asked, record answers in 02-discovery-answers.md as received and update metadata.json. Not before.

Phase 3: Targeted Context Gathering (Autonomous)

  1. After all discovery questions answered:
    • Use mcp__RepoPrompt__search (if available) to find specific files based on discovery answers
    • Use mcp__RepoPrompt__set_selection and read_selected_files (if available) to batch read relevant code
    • Deep dive into similar features and patterns
    • Analyze specific implementation details
    • Use WebSearch and or context7 for best practices or library documentation
    • Document findings in 03-context-findings.md including:
      • Specific files that need modification
      • Exact patterns to follow
      • Similar features analyzed in detail
      • Technical constraints and considerations
      • Integration points identified

Read the full file on GitHub · 123 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. 6d ago First seen · 123 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A e49d1345801c

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requirements-start is a command published in the GitHub repository rizethereum/claude-code-requirements-builder (1,760 stars, last pushed 1y ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 1,134 tokens. 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.