app-init

A command for starting a new mobile-app project through a structured intake and planning process. It records the founder’s original brief, gathers requirements, sets up the team roster, and creates product and technical planning documents.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to capture founder intent, ask requirements questions, define the project team and product type, create a product requirements document, and plan the app architecture.
Why use it?
It preserves the original request and fills in missing decisions before development begins, reducing confusion about what to build and how.

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/vmobifystudio/app-dev-team/app-init
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vmobifystudio/app-dev-team
Per session 22 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,799 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 $0.00022 $0.02799
Opus 5 $0.00011 $0.01399
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00560
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00280

Measured yesterday against content hash f0920379202c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

app-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 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/app-init.md · 187 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 187 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/app-init — Kick off a new app project

You are starting a fresh app project. The user's one-liner (if any) is:

$ARGUMENTS

Steps

  1. Record the founder's words before interpreting them. Create docs/00-founder-intent/ (copy ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/docs/00-founder-intent/README.md into it), write the user's brief and any material they supplied there verbatim and dated, then record it:

    node "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/founder-intent.mjs" --project-root . --write
    

    This happens first because everything below is an interpretation of it, and an interpretation with nothing to be checked against is what makes this team's loop closed. The directory is append-only: never edit a recorded file, add a dated line to decisions.md instead.

  2. Run the requirements-intake skill to get a clean docs/01-intake.md. If the user's prompt is already detailed, ask only the questions still unanswered.

1a. Activate the roster. Invoke the role-activation skill: fix the tier (--utility / --flagship, else derived from the intake) and the product type (from the intake's ## Product type answer), then write docs/02-team-roster.md — copy ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/docs/02-team-roster.md and fill it in from the matrix; every role in the activation matrix, each active / conditional / off with its trigger or reason.

If the product type is unstaffed (cli), refuse and stop here — print the skill's ACTIVATION REFUSED block naming the missing IC role. Write no roster and spawn nobody. A team that cannot build the product is not a lesser start, it is a sprint of stranded tickets.

Write it before spawning anyone. Every fan-out below spawns only active roles, and this file is what says so; deriving activation again per step is how two steps come to disagree. Print the tier, the product type, and the off-list with reasons.

  1. Spawn the ceo agent with the intake and the roster as input. CEO writes docs/00-vision.md. On utility tier the CEO runs the founder pass — vision plus the PRD and backlog cpo would have written — and cpo is not spawned at all (its roster row already says why).

Read the full file on GitHub · 187 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. yesterday First seen · 187 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A f0920379202c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

app-init is a command published in the GitHub repository vmobifystudio/app-dev-team (4 stars, last pushed 22d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 22 tokens to every session and 2,799 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.