start

A command that starts a local server for previewing Markdown files in a browser. Markdown is plain text written with simple formatting symbols for headings, links, and lists.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to preview documentation or other Markdown content from the current directory or a chosen folder.
Why use it?
It lets you view a directory of Markdown files as formatted pages while you 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/vicmpen/markview/start
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vicmpen/markview
Per session 15 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 185 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 $0.00015 $0.00185
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00093
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00037
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00018

Measured yesterday against content hash 4e86012e662d, 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 yesterday.

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/start.md · 18 lines

What it actually says

Start the markview server.

  1. Target directory: $ARGUMENTS if non-empty, otherwise the current working directory. Resolve to an absolute path.

  2. Launch the server as a background task:

    node "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/markview/server.mjs"

  3. Read the URL from the stdout line Markdown reader for <dir> running at <url>. Do not assume port 4173 — the server picks the next free port if it is taken.

  4. Open the viewer for the user: open <url> (macOS).

  5. Report the URL and mention that /markview:stop stops the server.

If the server fails to start, show the user its stderr output rather than guessing.

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. yesterday First seen · 18 lines · 15 tokens per session scan A 4e86012e662d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

start is a command published in the GitHub repository vicmpen/markview (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 15 tokens to every session and 185 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-31.