thoth:init

A command for starting, updating, synchronising, or seeding an intent discussion for Thoth's canonical project records.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps initialise or migrate Thoth information, resynchronise it, and continue the required discussion when the command returns questions or an intent packet.
Why use it?
It provides a defined way to establish or refresh that project authority before planning further work.

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/seeleai/thoth/init
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/SeeleAI/Thoth
Per session 32 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 827 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 $0.00032 $0.00827
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00413
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00165
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00083

Measured 2d ago against content hash 8b80b5c3aea1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

thoth:init 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.

commands/init.md · 70 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 70 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/thoth:init

Generated Surface

This file is generated from thoth.command_specs.COMMAND_SPECS. Do not hand edit.

Real Runtime Execution

The repo-local Thoth runtime command for this slash command has already been executed before Claude sees this prompt.

THOTH_INIT_ARGUMENTS_FILE="$(mktemp -t thoth-init-arguments.XXXXXX)"
trap 'rm -f "$THOTH_INIT_ARGUMENTS_FILE"' EXIT
cat > "$THOTH_INIT_ARGUMENTS_FILE" <<'THOTH_INIT_ARGUMENTS_EOF'
$ARGUMENTS
THOTH_INIT_ARGUMENTS_EOF
"${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/thoth-claude-command.sh" init --thoth-arguments-file "$THOTH_INIT_ARGUMENTS_FILE"

Response Contract

  1. Treat the structured bridge payload above as the only authority for this invocation.
  2. If bridge_success is false, report the exact bridge failure and stop.
  3. If stdout starts with version=, repeat stdout exactly and output nothing else.
  4. If no body.init_intent exists, report only the mechanical init/sync/migrate receipt.
  5. If body.init_intent exists, preserve the returned discussion packet as the live planning authority; do not summarize raw intent into generated docs and do not create ready work.
  6. Use AskUserQuestion to ask the next material question when project_patch or work_graph authority is not closed.
  7. Close init authority only through packet.protocol_commands.close_authority, using optional project_patch plus compact work_graph or work_item.
  8. If extra evidence is required, inspect only the smallest artifact explicitly named by the bridge payload.
  9. Do not launch broad Explore, Task, cache/source scans, or background investigation after the bridge result.

Authority Summary

Route

  • route_class: hybrid_init
  • intelligence_tier: intent_sensitive
  • packet_authority_mode: result_envelope_or_command_packet

Objective

Initialize audit-first project authority; when natural-language intent is supplied, save the raw intent as an init discussion and continue by questioning until compact authority is closed.

Read the full file on GitHub · 70 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 · 70 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A 8b80b5c3aea1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

thoth:init is a command published in the GitHub repository SeeleAI/Thoth (51 stars, last pushed 23d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 827 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 2026-08-30.