A command for creating a new ContextFun workstream and its first session, then printing a Markdown summary pack. A workstream is a named line of work stored with local chat transcripts.

Use it to start a workstream, optionally import the current chat, and create a unique name automatically if the requested name already exists.

It gives a new task its own place to preserve context and can optionally include the currently visible chat in the first session.

ctx start — Skill by dchu917

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/dchu917/ctx/ctx-start

Any agent

npx skills add dchu917/ctx --skill ctx-start

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dchu917/ctx

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 21 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 213 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5	$0.00021	$0.00213
Opus 5	$0.00010	$0.00106
Sonnet 5	$0.00004	$0.00043
Haiku 4.5	$0.00002	$0.00021

Measured 3d ago against content hash cd9b18537ef5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ctx 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 3d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/ctx_start.sh, scripts/skills/ctx_start.sh), 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.

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/claude/ctx-start/SKILL.md · 21 lines

What it actually says

Usage

In chat:
- /ctx start <workstream> — creates a new workstream and its first session, then prints the pack
- /ctx start --pull <workstream> — also ingests the current visible chat into that first session
- --pull can appear before or after the workstream name

What it runs

bash ./scripts/ctx_start.sh
Falls back to ctx start or python3 scripts/ctx_cmd.py start

Notes

If the requested workstream name already exists, ctx automatically creates name (1), name (2), and so on.
Use /ctx resume <workstream> to continue an existing workstream.
Uses local transcript storage (default ~/.claude/projects, ~/.codex/sessions).
Initialize ContextFun with scripts/quickstart.sh.

Files

What ships with it

3 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.

3d ago First seen · 21 lines · 21 tokens per session scan A cd9b18537ef5

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ctx start is a skill published in the GitHub repository dchu917/ctx (128 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 21 tokens to every session and 213 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 2026-08-30.

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