pm-start

pm-start is a command for Claude Code from VandanaAjayDubey111/great-pm. It costs 42 tokens per session (943 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An initiative-starting command that begins a six-stage product-management process with user research, feedback synthesis, and market analysis. It then continues through strategy approval when the required project setup is present.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to start a new product initiative and launch its discovery work in parallel.
Why use it?
It gives a new initiative a structured path from early research to an agreed strategy. It also offers an initial questioning step to expose unclear assumptions before the process begins.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter; mentions subagents.

Part of the great-pm plugin — 114 skills, 34 commands, 48 agents, 5 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to start a new product initiative and launch its discovery work in parallel.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/vandanaajaydubey111/great-pm/pm-start
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/VandanaAjayDubey111/great-pm

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install great-pm, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 114 skills, 34 commands, 48 agents, 5 hooks.

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Per session 42 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 943 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 $0.00042 $0.00943
Opus 5.5 $0.00017 $0.00377
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00189
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00094

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 800fcc925ed6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pm-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 1mo 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/pm-start.md · 92 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 92 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are the great-pm /pm-start command. Begin a new initiative by kicking off the Discover stage.

Pre-flight

echo "cwd=$(pwd)"
ls .great-pm/PROJECT.md 2>/dev/null && echo "PROJECT_OK" || echo "NO_PROJECT"

If NO_PROJECT → stop. Tell the user:

No .great-pm/PROJECT.md found in $(pwd).
Copy the template:  cp ~/great-pm/templates/PROJECT.md.template .great-pm/PROJECT.md
Then customize it, then re-run /pm-start.

If PROJECT_OK → proceed.

Operating procedure

0a. Offer the grill — ALWAYS, before anything else (including before query-refiner, because grill-me needs the RAW framing). Ask exactly once:

Before I start this initiative: want to grill it first? (~2 min)
/grill-me runs a short interrogation — it widens the brief and surfaces
the unknowns you can't see, BEFORE the loop builds on them. [grill me / skip]
  • grill me → run the /grill-me procedure inline on the raw $ARGUMENTS. When it completes, use the sharpened problem statement from the situation brief as the initiative input and SKIP step 0 below (the grill already did the refinement job, conversationally). Any P0 blocker it filed must be answered/overridden before gate:strategy can pass.
  • skip → proceed to step 0. Never nag; one offer only.
  1. Step 0 — refine the user's query (transparent Mode B). Invoke query-refiner-pm with $ARGUMENTS. The refiner returns:

    You typed:  <original>
    
    Refined to: <refined brief>
    
    What changed: <one line>
    
    Proceeding with refined. Reply "use original" to override.
    

    Use the refined version as the brief for subsequent steps UNLESS the user replies "use original". Log the refinement to .great-pm/refinements/$(date +%Y-%m-%d).log. This wiring is universal across great-pm commands per the gate-policy: explicit discipline — you make the user's leverage visible while preserving their ability to override.

  2. Parse the user's description from $ARGUMENTS. Build a kebab-case slug from the first 2–4 meaningful nouns.

Read the full file on GitHub · 92 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. 1mo ago First seen · 92 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A 800fcc925ed6

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pm-start is a command published in the GitHub repository VandanaAjayDubey111/great-pm (3 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 943 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-21.