start

A project-starting workflow that turns an idea or existing codebase into a recorded project setup. It can prepare a full workspace, create specifications and design files only, or document an existing project without changing it.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to start a new project, prepare a design-only workspace, or register an existing codebase for later work.
Why use it?
It gives different project types a defined starting point and records what the project is and where its setup stands.

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/cavalry-collective/visual-stack/start
Any agent
npx skills add Cavalry-Collective/visual-stack --skill start
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Cavalry-Collective/visual-stack

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 103 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,939 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 1 finding. 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 $0.00103 $0.02939
Opus 5 $0.00051 $0.01470
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00588
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00294

Measured 2d ago against content hash ca729ab94a71, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

start scanned grade C with 1 finding 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 2d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (assets/chooser-server.mjs), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

Recursive force deletehighDestructive command

rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.

rm -rf <name>/.git && git -C <name> init && git -C <name> add -A
plugins/vstack/experimental/start/SKILL.md · 216 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 216 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Turns an idea — or an existing repo — into this project. One multi-step form, then whichever of three paths its answers call for.

                                   ┌─ skip dev ──► specs/ + design/ only (no clone)
  idea ──► setup form ──► choice ──┤
                                   └─ full ─────► clone ──► delete the rest ──► toolchain ──► ready
  existing code ──► infer ──► confirm screen ──► recorded (nothing touched)

Every path ends with two files the rest of the chain reads: specs/product.md — what this product is — and .vstack/pipeline.json — where the pipeline stands.

1 · Pick the mode

Look at the target directory first:

The directory is Mode
empty, missing, or has no real code fresh — the form runs before anything exists
template-derived (stacks/, add-ons/, design/, specs/ all present) template — don't clone again; the form reads the real inventory
a real codebase that isn't template-derived existing — infer, confirm, record; never scaffold or delete

In fresh mode, don't interrogate up front — the form asks the questions. The only thing worth asking before serving it is where the project directory should go if the user hasn't said.

2 · Serve the form

SKILL=<this skill dir>
node "$SKILL/assets/chooser-server.mjs" --repo <project dir> --port 7799

Start it with run_in_background: true, then tell the user to open http://localhost:7799/.

The form is four steps: what are you building → details (kind, name, one-liner) → stack & add-ons, with a pack recommended from the earlier answers — → confirm. On step 3 the user can instead skip development setup entirely; the whole path then produces UI and specs only.

Where the inventory comes from:

  • Template mode (repo has stacks/ + add-ons/): scanned from disk — a pack added upstream appears with no change here.
  • Fresh mode (nothing on disk yet): the server fetches the live stacks/ + add-ons/ listing of vstack-template-base from GitHub ("source": "github"); offline or rate-limited it falls back to its built-in catalog snapshot ("source": "snapshot"). Either way, after cloning, reconcile: if the chosen pack or an add-on doesn't exist in the cloned template, stop and re-ask; if the template ships packs the form didn't show, mention them before deleting anything.
  • Existing mode: no inventory. Infer the facts first — read package.json / lockfiles / framework configs / the directory layout / README / recent git log — write them as a prefill, and serve:

Read the full file on GitHub · 216 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files 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.

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. 2d ago First seen · 216 lines · 103 tokens per session scan C ca729ab94a71

Subscribe to this mod's changes

start is a skill published in the GitHub repository Cavalry-Collective/visual-stack (11 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 103 tokens to every session and 2,939 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (recursive force delete). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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