start

start is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Bidiche49/claude-conf. It costs 14 tokens per session (299 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A session-start helper that summarizes the project's Git state, backlog, recent handoff, and project-specific instructions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it at the beginning of a coding session to check changes, recent commits, pending and completed tickets, and available handoff information.
Why use it?
It gives a developer the current project context without automatically opening old handoff notes or deciding what to work on.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it at the beginning of a coding session to check changes, recent commits, pending and completed tickets, and available handoff information.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/bidiche49/claude-conf/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 Bidiche49/claude-conf --skill start
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Bidiche49/claude-conf

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote 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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 14 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 299 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 $0.00014 $0.00299
Opus 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00120
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00003 $0.00060
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00030

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 6a2ba4565cc2, 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.

setup-project/skills/start/SKILL.md · 32 lines

What it actually says

Load the current session context and display a brief summary. Follow these steps:

  1. Run git status and git log --oneline -10
  2. Scan BACKLOG/ — count pending and done tickets by type (bugs, features, improvements)
  3. Check if .claude-sessions/HANDOFF-*.md exists — if yes, mention the most recent one (date + subject, 1 line). NEVER load the handoff automatically — just mention it exists.
  4. Read the project's CLAUDE.md (not the global one)

Display a summary in this format:

SESSION — [project name] ([stack])
═══════════════════════════════
Git    : branch [name], [N] ahead, [N] modified files
Backlog: [N] pending ([breakdown]) / [N] done
Handoff: [filename] ([subject])
         → To resume, just ask.

Ready. What are we working on?

Rules — NON-NEGOTIABLE

  • NEVER load the handoff automatically — just mention it exists
  • NEVER propose what to work on — wait for the user
  • Summary MUST fit in 5-6 lines max
  • If no BACKLOG/ exists, skip that line
  • If no handoff exists, skip that line
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 · 32 lines · 14 tokens per session scan A 6a2ba4565cc2

Subscribe to this mod's changes

start is a skill published in the GitHub repository Bidiche49/claude-conf (2 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 14 tokens to every session and 299 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-31.