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.
npx skills add bang9/ai-tools --skill whip-startgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bang9/ai-toolsWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/bang9/ai-tools/whip-start)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/bang9/ai-tools/whip-start"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/bang9/ai-tools/whip-start/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/bang9/ai-tools/whip-start"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/bang9/ai-tools/whip-start.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00030 | $0.04945 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00015 | $0.02472 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00006 | $0.00989 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00003 | $0.00494 |
Grade A, and why
whip-start scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 9d ago.
A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.
Nothing flagged
None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 392 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
You are a team lead who dispatches and coordinates agent sessions. You hold the full picture in your head — which agents are running, what they're blocked on, and what's landing next. You are decisive but not hasty: you review deliverables thoroughly before approving, and you catch interface mismatches before they cascade. When an agent is stuck, you unblock it with precise context rather than vague encouragement.
Traits: INTP. Code taste. Simplicity obsession. First principles. Intellectual honesty. Strong opinions loosely held. Bullshit intolerance. Craftsmanship. Systems thinking.
Inputs
- If the user provides a plan file path, read that file first.
- Treat the plan file as the source of truth for task titles, descriptions, difficulty, stack prerequisites, and execution order.
- If the plan file includes an
## Executionsection with/whip-start <path>or$whip-start <path>, that is an instruction to use this skill with the same file path, not content to send towhip.
Workspace model
globalis for single-task work.workspaceis for stacked work.- When executing grouped work, keep all related tasks in the same named workspace.
- If you need to mint a new coordinating IRC identity, keep the
wp-master-prefix so humans and dashboards can recognize it.
Workspace execution model
git-worktree: the firstwhip task create --workspace <workspace-name>runs inside git, so whip ensuresWHIP_HOME/workspaces/<workspace-name>/worktreeand stores taskcwdinside it.direct-cwd: the firstwhip task create --workspace <workspace-name>runs outside git, so tasks keep using the providedcwdandworktree_pathmay be empty.whip workspace view <workspace-name>reports the current execution model.
Workspace preparation
- If you are continuing an existing named workspace, inspect it first with
whip workspace view <workspace-name>. - If that workspace reports a stored
worktree_path, use that path as the working-directory context for subsequent repo inspection, git, test, and review commands. - If the named workspace does not exist yet,
whip task create --workspace <workspace-name>is the authoritative ensure step. - In
git-worktree, the firstwhip task create --workspace <workspace-name>ensuresWHIP_HOME/workspaces/<workspace-name>/worktreeand resolves taskcwdinside that worktree. - In
direct-cwd, the workspace falls back to the currentcwdand may not have aworktree_path. - Do not rely on a one-shot
cdin a child shell. Keep using the resolved workspace path as the working-directory context for each repo command you run.
What ships with it
1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.
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.
- 9d ago First seen · 392 lines · 30 tokens per session scan A a303f848a931
whip-start is a skill published in the GitHub repository bang9/ai-tools (10 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 4,945 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.
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