start

A command for starting a new market-research session with a defined topic and research scope. It passes the user's topic to the Sigint research workflow.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to begin structured research into a market or business subject before collecting findings and preparing follow-up work.
Why use it?
It gives research work a consistent starting point and preserves the topic as the basis for later investigation.

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/zircote-plugins/sigint/start
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zircote-plugins/sigint
Per session 10 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 111 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 $0.00010 $0.00111
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.00056
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00022
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00011

Measured yesterday against content hash 36a356c79d8c, 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 · 13 lines

What it actually says

Load and execute the sigint:start skill.

$ARGUMENTS are passed through to the skill as the research topic.

Begin the research session now based on: $ARGUMENTS

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 · 13 lines · 10 tokens per session scan A 36a356c79d8c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

start is a command published in the GitHub repository zircote-plugins/sigint (20 stars, last pushed 15d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 10 tokens to every session and 111 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 2026-08-30.

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