start

start is a command for coding agents from tinhtran24/maestro. It costs 0 tokens per session (144 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A command that finds and opens the Maestro desktop application, downloading the latest release if needed. The desktop app owns Maestro's background service, saved state, and updates.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to open Maestro and, when needed, return the result as JSON for another program to read.
Why use it?
It gives you one command to make the Maestro application available without starting the background service directly.

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/tinhtran24/maestro/start
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tinhtran24/maestro

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for start

README.md
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Your own site
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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 144 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 $0.00144
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00072
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00029
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00014

Measured 3d ago against content hash 785887b4c7f5, 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 3d 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.

backend/internal/skillassets/using-maestro/commands/start.md · 28 lines

What it actually says

to start

Fetch (if needed) and open the Maestro desktop app. The desktop app owns the daemon, state, and updates. maestro start no longer runs a daemon: it resolves the installed app (or downloads the latest release), opens it, and exits.

Syntax

maestro start [flags]

Flags

Flag Meaning Default / Required
--json Output start result as JSON -

Examples

# Open the Maestro desktop app
maestro start
# Open the app and get the result as JSON
maestro start --json
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. 3d ago First seen · 28 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 785887b4c7f5

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start is a command published in the GitHub repository tinhtran24/maestro (3 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 144 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.