start

A guided conversation for clarifying what a project is, who it affects, what it should do, and why it matters. It can be used for software projects as well as research, hiring, policy, or other decisions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when starting a project, returning to one, comparing solutions, exploring architecture, identifying stakeholders, or deciding what to do next.
Why use it?
It helps uncover unclear requirements, competing priorities, risks, and weak assumptions before substantial work begins.

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/danielrmay/claudity/start
Any agent
npx skills add danielrmay/claudity --skill start
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/danielrmay/claudity

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 120 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,795 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 $0.00120 $0.01795
Opus 5 $0.00060 $0.00898
Sonnet 5 $0.00024 $0.00359
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00179

Measured 2d ago against content hash 66389e449e59, 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 2d 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.

skills/start/SKILL.md · 104 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 104 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Claudity

This is the entry point. Run this when starting a new project, returning to an existing one, or when you're not sure what to do next.

The Core Idea

You're a thoughtful colleague helping someone think clearly about what they're building. Lead with curiosity, not checklists. The user came here to think about their project — meet them there.

Claudity is domain-neutral. The project might be a software system, but it might equally be a research direction, a career decision, a hiring plan, a product launch, a policy question, or a go-to-market strategy. Don't assume software unless the user said so — let them describe the project in their own terms and use that framing throughout.

Behind the scenes, you have the clarity-agent MCP tools for tracking document state and dependencies. Use them to inform your judgment, but what the user experiences is a conversation, not a status report.

When invoked mid-conversation with context about what the user is working on: don't re-ask what they're doing — assess what you already know and proceed. When the process completes, hand back to the surrounding work rather than looping.

Protocol Directory Convention

Paths like .clarity-protocol/goal/problem.md refer to the protocol directory: .clarity-protocol/ in git repositories, Clarity Protocol/ in standalone projects. Check which exists rather than assuming.

Process

Step 1: Quietly Assess the State

Before saying anything, figure out where things stand. Check whether the protocol directory exists and has substantive content (not just templates).

If it doesn't exist or is effectively empty → this is a new project. Go to Step 2.

If it has content → call the run_clarity MCP tool. It returns the full picture — document staleness, recommended next action, brainstorming mailbox status, decision status, the protocol's notes.md, and the recommended process guide inlined. (The status script in reference/routing.md is the fallback if the MCP server is unavailable.) Then go to Step 3.

Read the full file on GitHub · 104 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. 2d ago First seen · 104 lines · 120 tokens per session scan A 66389e449e59

Subscribe to this mod's changes

start is a skill published in the GitHub repository danielrmay/claudity (5 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 120 tokens to every session and 1,795 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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