start-sprint

start-sprint is a command for coding agents from srbryers/slope. It costs 0 tokens per session (936 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command that prepares a repository for a SLOPE sprint, a defined unit of tracked development work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before starting sprint work when the project uses SLOPE.
Why use it?
It checks previous sprint records, loads relevant planning context, creates a feature branch, and initializes the new sprint.

Command

Install

Getting it into your agent

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agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/srbryers/slope/start-sprint
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/srbryers/slope

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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 936 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 $0.00000 $0.00936
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00468
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00187
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00094

Measured 5d ago against content hash e66e9e8d6d7c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

start-sprint 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 5d 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.

templates/claude-code/commands/start-sprint.md · 104 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 104 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Start Sprint — Pre-Sprint Setup and Briefing

Run the complete pre-sprint routine: verify prior sprint hygiene, get briefing, create branch, and initialize sprint state.

Arguments

  • $ARGUMENTS — optional: sprint number (auto-detected if omitted)

Steps

1. Determine sprint number

  • If a number was provided as an argument, use it
  • Otherwise, run slope now and use its active or next sprint; use slope next only if no sprint is reported
  • Treat the sprint number as the current SLOPE work unit. It may be a time-boxed interval or a scope-based agent milestone.

2. Load bounded roadmap context

Run slope roadmap focus --sprint=N for the discovered sprint before loading full roadmap history.

3. Verify prior sprint scorecard

Check that the previous sprint's scorecard exists at docs/retros/sprint-{N-1}.json:

  • If missing, stop and create it first using /post-sprint
  • If it exists, continue
  • Note: the sprint-completion guard also enforces this — PR creation is blocked without a scorecard

4. Branch hygiene

  • Run git branch to check for stale branches from prior sprints
  • If stale branches exist, warn the user
  • Create a new feature branch: feat/sprint-{N}-<theme-slug>

5. Run briefing

Run slope briefing to get:

  • Handicap snapshot (rolling performance stats)
  • Hazard index (recent gotchas by area)
  • Filtered common issues relevant to this sprint's work area
  • Session continuity (any handoffs from prior sessions)

If you know the sprint's work area, add filters:

slope briefing --categories=<area> --keywords=<topic>

6. Start sprint with workflow engine

Run slope sprint run --workflow=sprint-standard --var sprint_id=S{N} to start a workflow-controlled sprint.

This activates the workflow engine which:

  • Controls step ordering (plan → review → implement → validate → score)
  • The workflow-step-gate guard blocks file edits outside of agent_work steps
  • State persists in the store — resume with slope sprint resume if interrupted
  • Skip steps with slope sprint skip if not applicable

Read the full file on GitHub · 104 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. 5d ago First seen · 104 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A e66e9e8d6d7c

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start-sprint is a command published in the GitHub repository srbryers/slope (6 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 936 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 2026-08-31.