productivity-start

productivity-start is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Bevel-Software/Hexis. It costs 58 tokens per session (1,305 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A setup routine for a personal task list and workplace memory. It checks for files such as TASKS.md and CLAUDE.md, creates missing task and memory structures, and looks for shared glossary, people, project, and process pages.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when setting up the system for the first time or bootstrapping memory from an existing task list and workplace information.
Why use it?
It gives a new workspace a consistent starting point instead of leaving tasks and context in scattered or missing files. It also helps the agent understand the team's internal language.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md.

Good fit Use it when setting up the system for the first time or bootstrapping memory from an existing task list and workplace information.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/bevel-software/hexis/productivity-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 Bevel-Software/Hexis --skill productivity-start
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Bevel-Software/Hexis

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 58 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,305 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 $0.00058 $0.01305
Opus 5.5 $0.00023 $0.00522
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00261
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00130

Measured 6d ago against content hash 36720d2b361b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

productivity-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.

packages/core-backend/starter-packs/general/Plugins/general-starter/skills/productivity-start/SKILL.md · 164 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 164 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Start

Names like ~~chat or ~~project tracker mean whichever tool of that kind is connected: a tool in one of your Hexis plugins, or one your agent has itself. The knowledge base is this workspace's knowledge base in Hexis, plus any other docs tool that is connected. When a source is not connected, skip it and say what you could not check.

Initialize the task and memory systems (see the task-management and memory-management skills).

Instructions

1. Check What Exists

Check the agent's working directory for:

  • TASKS.md - task list
  • CLAUDE.md (or your agent's equivalent) - working memory

And search the knowledge base for:

  • A Glossary page
  • People/ and Projects/ folders
  • A How we work page

2. Create What's Missing

If TASKS.md doesn't exist: Create it with the standard template (see task-management skill). Place it in the agent's working directory.

If CLAUDE.md doesn't exist: This is a fresh setup - begin the memory bootstrap workflow (see below).

Do not create empty knowledge base pages. The knowledge base is shared: a page appears when there is something true to put in it, with the person's go-ahead.

3. Orient the User

If everything was already initialized:

Your tasks and memory are both loaded.
- Ask for productivity-update to sync tasks and check memory
- Ask for a comprehensive update for a deep scan of all activity

If memory hasn't been bootstrapped yet, continue to step 4.

4. Bootstrap Memory (First Run Only)

Only do this if CLAUDE.md doesn't exist yet.

Start with what the team already wrote down: read the knowledge base's Glossary, How we work and About us pages if they exist. Do not ask about anything they already answer.

The best source of workplace language is the user's actual task list. Real tasks = real shorthand.

Ask the user:

Where do you keep your todos or task list? This could be:
- A local file (e.g., TASKS.md, todo.txt)
- An app (e.g. Asana, Linear, Jira, Notion, Todoist)
- A notes file

I'll use your tasks to learn your workplace shorthand.

Read the full file on GitHub · 164 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 · 164 lines · 58 tokens per session scan A 36720d2b361b

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productivity-start is a skill published in the GitHub repository Bevel-Software/Hexis (115 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 58 tokens to every session and 1,305 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 2026-10-10.

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