cold-start

cold-start is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from cyberbird2048/gbrainmcp-clean. It costs 94 tokens per session (4,620 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided setup skill for filling a new personal knowledge system with useful information from sources such as email, calendars, contacts, conversations, and social-media archives.

In plain words
What is it for?
Bootstrapping a new brain, importing approved data, tracking progress, detecting entities, and linking related information.
Why use it?
It turns an empty system into a searchable source of personal context while requiring consent for each import and protecting account credentials.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — built for gbrain. Also seen: built for gbrain.

Good fit Bootstrapping a new brain, importing approved data, tracking progress, detecting entities, and linking related information.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cyberbird2048/gbrainmcp-clean/cold-start
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add cyberbird2048/gbrainmcp-clean --skill cold-start
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cyberbird2048/gbrainmcp-clean

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 94 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,620 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00094 $0.04620
Opus 5 $0.00047 $0.02310
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00924
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00462

Measured 9d ago against content hash a2c42dd7c4ec, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cold-start scanned grade A 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 9d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl -s -H "Authorization: Bearer $GOOGLE_TOKEN" \
Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

skills/cold-start/SKILL.md · 507 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 507 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Cold Start — Day-One Brain Bootstrapping

You have a working brain. Search works. Now what?

An empty brain is a static database. A brain with your email history, calendar, contacts, conversations, and social media is a live context membrane that makes every future interaction smarter. This skill sequences the highest-leverage data sources to get you from zero to useful in one session.

Contract

  • Every import phase is gated on user consent (ask-user pattern) before proceeding.
  • Google/social API access goes through ClawVisor. The agent never holds raw OAuth tokens or API keys. This is a safety requirement, not a preference. ClawVisor vaults credentials, enforces task-scoped authorization, logs every API call, and requires human approval for destructive operations. If the user doesn't want ClawVisor, the only safe alternative is offline file exports (Google Takeout, Twitter archive download).
  • Each phase is independently valuable — the user can stop after any phase and still have a useful brain.
  • Progress is tracked in ~/.gbrain/cold-start-state.json so interrupted sessions can resume.
  • Entity detection and cross-linking run on every import, not as a separate pass.

Prerequisites

  • GBrain installed and initialized (gbrain doctor --json all green)
  • Brain repo cloned and synced
  • Agent has terminal access and can run gbrain CLI commands

The Priority Stack

Data sources ranked by information density × ease of import:

Priority Source Why Time Pages Created
1 Existing markdown/Obsidian Highest density — it's already structured 5 min 100s-1000s
2 Google Contacts Seeds the people/ directory — names, emails, companies 10 min 50-500
3 Google Calendar (90 days) Meeting history with attendee context 15 min 30-90
4 Gmail (recent threads) Relationship context, active threads, org chart signals 20 min 50-200
5 Conversations (ChatGPT/Claude exports) Your thinking, questions, mental models 15 min 10-100
6 X/Twitter archive Your public positions, takes, engagement patterns 20 min 30-365
7 File archives (Dropbox/Drive/local) Historical documents, old writing, photos 30+ min varies
8 Meeting transcripts (Circleback/etc.) Deep relationship context from recorded calls 20 min 10-50

Read the full file on GitHub · 507 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. 9d ago First seen · 507 lines · 94 tokens per session scan A a2c42dd7c4ec

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cold-start is a skill published in the GitHub repository cyberbird2048/gbrainmcp-clean (0 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 94 tokens to every session and 4,620 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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