start

start is a skill for Claude Code from anombyte93/atlas-session-lifecycle. It costs 55 tokens per session (4,406 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A session-initialization and project-organization workflow for Claude Code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it with /start, /init, or requests to bootstrap a session, organize a project, generate CLAUDE.md, or manage session purpose and context.
Why use it?
It creates and maintains session context, project instructions, files, and lifecycle information so work can continue with the right background.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code.

Part of the atlas-session-lifecycle plugin — 6 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it with /start, /init, or requests to bootstrap a session, organize a project, generate CLAUDE.md, or manage session purpose and context.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/anombyte93/atlas-session-lifecycle/start
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.

Any agent
npx skills add anombyte93/atlas-session-lifecycle --skill start
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/anombyte93/atlas-session-lifecycle

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install atlas-session-lifecycle, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 55 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,406 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 3 findings, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Tool Misuse · line 374
    Tool parameters are crafted to achieve unintended or unsafe behavior. Parameter abuse can bypass intended safety checks (e.g. shell=True, --force, dangerous glob patterns).
    Fix: Validate all tool parameters against an allowlist. Reject dangerous parameter values (shell=True, --force, -rf /) and use safe defaults.
  • medium Excessive Agency · line 203
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
  • medium Rogue Agent · line 359
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00055 $0.04406
Opus 5.5 $0.00022 $0.01762
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00011 $0.00881
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00441

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 82a5592f06e8, 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 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.

skills/start/SKILL.md · 388 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 388 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Session Init & Lifecycle Skill

User runs /start. Questions upfront. Everything else silent. Then seamlessly continue working.

All session operations use atlas-session MCP tools directly (prefixed session_* and contract_*). Use ToolSearch to discover them.

Directive Capture

Capture any text after /start as DIRECTIVE. If empty, the soul purpose is the directive. The skill NEVER finishes with "ready to go" and stops. After setup, immediately begin working.

UX Contract (MANDATORY)

  1. NEVER announce step names — no "Init Step 1", no "Wave 2"
  2. NEVER narrate internal process — no "Detecting environment..."
  3. NEVER explain what you're about to do — just ask questions, then do it silently
  4. User sees ONLY: questions and seamless continuation into work
  5. Batch questions — as few rounds as possible
  6. No "done" message that stops — after setup, immediately begin working

Hard Invariants

  1. User authority is absolute — AI NEVER closes a soul purpose. Only suggests; user decides.
  2. Zero unsolicited behavior — Skill ONLY runs when user types /start.
  3. Human-visible memory only — All state lives in files.
  4. Idempotent — Safe to run multiple times.
  5. Templates are immutable — NEVER edit bundled template files.
  6. NEVER auto-invoke doubt agent. Only offer it.
  7. Trust separation — for bounty verify, spawn a separate finality Task agent. Never the same agent that submits.
  8. AtlasCoin is optional — if the service is down, tell the user and continue without bounty tracking.

Service Availability (MANDATORY)

  1. NEVER run claude mcp list — assume atlas-session is available, handle errors on first call
  2. NEVER block on external services — log the gap and continue with degraded mode
  3. Fallback hierarchy: try tool → if error/timeout → tell user what's degraded → continue
Service If Unavailable Action
atlas-session MCP session_start errors/times out STOP — required for /start
AtlasCoin contract_health() fails Continue without bounty tracking
Perplexity Research queries fail Context7 + WebSearch fallback
Context7 Doc queries fail Perplexity results only
Bitwarden Vault locked/unavailable Tell user, skip credential fetch

Read the full file on GitHub · 388 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 · 388 lines · 55 tokens per session scan A 82a5592f06e8

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start is a skill published in the GitHub repository anombyte93/atlas-session-lifecycle (85 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 4,406 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 2026-08-30.