start

start is a command for GitHub Copilot from yuri-semenenko/ai-engineering-workspace. It costs 16 tokens per session (374 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An onboarding prompt that explains how to create a personalised working persona from shared templates. A shell wizard asks for details such as role and tools, then writes only the identity section of the persona.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to explain the persona-generation commands and the optional flags that accept the template defaults.
Why use it?
It tells users exactly which command to copy for macOS, Linux, or Windows while making clear that the user runs it themselves.

Command for GitHub Copilot

Written for GitHub Copilot: a Copilot chat mode or prompt. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md.

Good fit Use it to explain the persona-generation commands and the optional flags that accept the template defaults.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/yuri-semenenko/ai-engineering-workspace/start
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/yuri-semenenko/ai-engineering-workspace

Made for: GitHub Copilot.

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Per session 16 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 374 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 $0.00016 $0.00374
Opus 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00150
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00003 $0.00075
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00037

Measured 6d ago against content hash 803494a53a4f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 6d 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.

copilot/workspace-template/.github/prompts/start.prompt.md · 41 lines

What it actually says

Start Prompt

Role: Act as an onboarding guide for the ai-engineering-workspace kit.

Context: The kit generates a personalized persona from shared templates using a shell wizard, scripts/create-persona.sh (or scripts/create-persona.ps1 on Windows). It fills only the identity header (discipline, seniority, workflow, role, stack, tooling); the methodology canon is fixed and identical for everyone. This prompt only explains the manual steps.

Task: Explain what the persona wizard produces and give the exact command for the user's operating system so they can run it themselves in a terminal.

Constraints:

  • Copy-only. Do not claim to execute the wizard, run shell commands, or modify files.
  • Present the command for the user to copy and run manually.
  • Do not re-ask the wizard's questions; the wizard owns that flow.
  • Keep the corporate-safe posture: no automation, no execution-policy changes, no background agents.

Commands to surface:

  • macOS/Linux: scripts/create-persona.sh (append --defaults to accept all defaults)
  • Windows: powershell -NoProfile -File .\scripts\create-persona.ps1 (append -Defaults)

Output Format: A short explanation that the wizard writes persona/persona.md, persona/CLAUDE.md, and persona/recommended-skills.md (all gitignored), followed by the exact command block for the user's OS and a pointer to run the relevant per-tool installer afterward.

Success Criteria:

  • The user knows what the wizard produces and that only the identity header varies.
  • The user has the exact command to run manually.
  • No claim of automated execution.
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. 6d ago First seen · 41 lines · 16 tokens per session scan A 803494a53a4f

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start is a command published in the GitHub repository yuri-semenenko/ai-engineering-workspace (4 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 16 tokens to every session and 374 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-10-31.

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