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

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/bidiche49/claude-conf/start
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.

agentmods badge for start

README.md
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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. 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 $0.00014 $0.00299
Opus 5 $0.00007 $0.00150
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00060
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00030

Measured 4d ago against content hash 6a2ba4565cc2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 4d 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. 4d 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 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 14 tokens to every session and 299 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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