cold-start-interview

cold-start-interview is a skill for Claude Code from Buildwise-Studios/claude-for-hk-law. It costs 99 tokens per session (10,576 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of cold-start-interview, Apache-2.0.

An interview workflow that learns an organisation’s AI governance practice and creates a working reference file. AI governance is the set of rules and checks for how an organisation uses AI.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for setting up or refreshing an AI governance profile from source documents, including policy commitments, vendor positions, impact-assessment structure, and approved or prohibited tools.
Why use it?
It helps turn existing policies, assessments, vendor agreements, and approved-tool lists into one usable profile for later legal workflows.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the ai-governance-legal plugin — 10 skills, 2 MCP servers shipped together

Good fit It is for setting up or refreshing an AI governance profile from source documents, including policy commitments, vendor positions, impact-assessment structure, and approved or prohibited tools.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add Buildwise-Studios/claude-for-hk-law
Claude Code
/plugin install ai-governance-legal

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ai-governance-legal, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills, 2 MCP servers.

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Per session 99 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 10,576 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 94% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00099 $0.10576
Opus 5 $0.00049 $0.05288
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.02115
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.01058

Measured 10d ago against content hash 60c97b80f6ce, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cold-start-interview 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 10d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

94% identical to cold-start-interview — 34 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

ai-governance-legal/skills/cold-start-interview/SKILL.md · 689 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 689 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/cold-start-interview

  1. Check ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-hk-law/ai-governance-legal/CLAUDE.md — if populated and no --redo, confirm before overwriting.
  2. Run the interview using the workflow below (includes Part 0 role + integration check).
  3. Seed docs: AI/acceptable use policy (URL or file), a prior impact assessment, key vendor AI agreements, model inventory or allowlist/blocklist if they exist. Read all provided.
  4. Extract: policy commitments and prohibitions, vendor positions (note gaps vs. stated), impact assessment structure, approved/prohibited tool lists.
  5. Migration: if a populated CLAUDE.md (no [PLACEHOLDER] markers) exists at ~/.claude/plugins/cache/claude-for-hk-law/ai-governance-legal/*/CLAUDE.md but not at the config path, copy it to the config path and tell the user what was migrated.
  6. Write ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-hk-law/ai-governance-legal/CLAUDE.md (create parent directories as needed). Show summary. Offer first task.

Flags

  • --redo — re-run the full interview and overwrite ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-hk-law/ai-governance-legal/CLAUDE.md.
  • --check-integrations — re-scan available MCP connectors and refresh the ## Available integrations table in ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-hk-law/ai-governance-legal/CLAUDE.md without re-running the full interview. Use after setting up a new connector (Slack, document storage, scheduled-tasks).

When probing: only report ✓ if an MCP tool call actually succeeded. Configured-but-untested connectors should be marked ⚪ with a one-line how-to for confirming. Never report ✓ based on .mcp.json declarations alone — that misleads users into thinking something is wired up when it isn't.

/ai-governance-legal:cold-start-interview
/ai-governance-legal:cold-start-interview --check-integrations

Purpose

Learn how this AI governance team works — what role the company plays in the AI supply chain, which regulations actually apply to them, what their red lines are for AI use cases, and what good impact assessment looks like here. Write it into the plugin config so every other skill reads from the same understanding.

Read the full file on GitHub · 689 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. 10d ago First seen · 689 lines · 99 tokens per session scan A 60c97b80f6ce

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cold-start-interview is a skill published in the GitHub repository Buildwise-Studios/claude-for-hk-law (5 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 99 tokens to every session and 10,576 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 94% identical to cold-start-interview, differing in 34 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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