cold-start-interview

cold-start-interview is a skill for Claude Code from cynco-labs/ai-accounting-skills. It costs 20 tokens per session (232 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A short interview that creates a profile for people who build or maintain coding and accounting skills, rather than work directly with clients.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to record a maintainer's role, testing jurisdiction, quality settings, and focus areas such as accounting workflows or skill testing.
Why use it?
It gathers the background needed to organize a builder profile without treating the person as a client-services user.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md.

Part of the accounting-builder-hub plugin — 3 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to record a maintainer's role, testing jurisdiction, quality settings, and focus areas such as accounting workflows or skill testing.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cynco-labs/ai-accounting-skills/cold-start-interview
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 cynco-labs/ai-accounting-skills --skill cold-start-interview
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cynco-labs/ai-accounting-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install accounting-builder-hub, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills.

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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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 20 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 232 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 $0.00020 $0.00232
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00116
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00046
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00023

Measured 11d ago against content hash f1f6129dc800, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, 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 11d 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.

accounting-builder-hub/skills/cold-start-interview/SKILL.md · 35 lines

What it actually says

/cold-start-interview (builder hub)

Purpose

Lightweight profile for people building skills/packs, not running client engagements.

Questions

Use a structured question tool when available (shared/user-questions.md); otherwise short numbered asks:

  1. Maintainer, contributor, or firm-internal tooling owner?
  2. Default jurisdiction when testing?
  3. Strict QA mode on/off?
  4. Focus area: pipeline skills / notes / tax / COA / cookbooks?

Write

~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-accounting/accounting-builder-hub/CLAUDE.md

Then point them to:

  • CONTRIBUTING.md
  • shared/skill-craft.md
  • /accounting-builder-hub:skills-qa
  • /accounting-builder-hub:jurisdiction-scaffold

Done when: builder CLAUDE.md written (or user declined) and next actions listed.

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. 11d ago First seen · 35 lines · 20 tokens per session scan A f1f6129dc800

Subscribe to this mod's changes

cold-start-interview is a skill published in the GitHub repository cynco-labs/ai-accounting-skills (3 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 20 tokens to every session and 232 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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