start

start is a skill for Claude Code from anombyte93/atlas-session-lifecycle. It costs 55 tokens per session (7,835 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A project-startup and session-management workflow triggered by the /start command. It initializes project context or reconciles existing context and keeps the working state in visible files.

In plain words
What is it for?
It captures the project's purpose, organizes files, creates or refreshes CLAUDE.md, connects initialization steps, and records active context when a session closes.
Why use it?
It gives a new project an organized starting point and lets later sessions refresh instructions without relying on hidden conversation memory.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; names the AskUserQuestion tool; mentions Claude Code.

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

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 skills/anombyte93/atlas-session-lifecycle/v1
Any agent
npx skills add anombyte93/atlas-session-lifecycle --skill v1
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 7,835 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 5.1 $0.00055 $0.07835
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.03918
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.01567
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00783

Measured 6d ago against content hash 1c5ea5f10d32, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, 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.

v1/SKILL.md · 868 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 868 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Session Init & Lifecycle Skill

Single entry point for project initialization and soul purpose lifecycle management. Two modes, auto-detected. User runs /start — that is all.

Overview

This skill has two operational modes:

  1. Init Mode — Triggered when session-context/ does NOT exist. First-run bootstrap: captures soul purpose, organizes files, generates CLAUDE.md, integrates Claude /init, onboards Ralph Loop.
  2. Reconcile Mode — Triggered when session-context/ DOES exist. Lifecycle management: refreshes CLAUDE.md via Claude /init, assesses soul purpose status, optionally verifies with doubt agent, harvests active context on closure.

Mode is auto-detected from directory state. No flags, no arguments. User just runs /start.


Hard Invariants

These hold at all times, in both modes:

  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. No hooks, no proactive triggers.
  3. Human-visible memory only — All state lives in files. Nothing hidden in chat memory.
  4. Idempotent — Safe to run multiple times. Re-running does not corrupt state.
  5. Templates are immutable — NEVER edit files in ~/claude-session-init-templates/. Copy only.
  6. Reconcile mode is audit, not rewrite — Targeted changes only. Do not regenerate what already exists.

Rules

  • Act as pure bootstrap + organizer in Init Mode, pure auditor in Reconcile Mode
  • All persistent state lives in files, not chat memory
  • If session-context/ files exist, do NOT overwrite unless explicitly instructed
  • If project is already organized (few files at root), skip file organization steps
  • NEVER edit template files in ~/claude-session-init-templates/ — they are immutable
  • Confirm nothing except the organization map (Init Step 5) and harvest promotions (Reconcile Step 5). Execute deterministically otherwise.
  • NEVER auto-invoke doubt agent. Only suggest it. User accepts or skips.
  • NEVER auto-close a soul purpose. Present options; user chooses.
  • All heavy file operations MUST be delegated to Task agents (see Agent-Driven Execution below)

Read the full file on GitHub · 868 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. 6d ago First seen · 868 lines · 55 tokens per session scan A 1c5ea5f10d32

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start is a skill published in the GitHub repository anombyte93/atlas-session-lifecycle (88 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 7,835 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.