start

start is a skill for Claude Code from dsifry/metaswarm. It costs 27 tokens per session (7,169 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for coordinating several specialised AI agents to take a GitHub issue from investigation through implementation and a merged pull request.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to start work on GitHub issues, track ready tasks and project status, and run the listed agents through the issue-to-pull-request process.
Why use it?
It breaks a large issue into reviewed stages so research, planning, coding, security, design, and quality checks are coordinated instead of handled as one unchecked task.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions subagents; mentions Claude Code.

Part of the metaswarm plugin — 14 skills, 16 commands, 2 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to start work on GitHub issues, track ready tasks and project status, and run the listed agents through the issue-to-pull-request process.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/dsifry/metaswarm/start
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 dsifry/metaswarm --skill start
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dsifry/metaswarm

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install metaswarm, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 14 skills, 16 commands, 2 hooks.

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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agentmods 80×15 button for start

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 27 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 7,169 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 2 findings, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 249
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 660
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
How audits are shown
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 $0.00027 $0.07169
Opus 5.5 $0.00011 $0.02868
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00005 $0.01434
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00717

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 2a31dd3e1702, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 1mo 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 · 872 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 872 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

BEADS Multi-Agent Orchestration Skill

This skill coordinates a swarm of specialized AI agents to autonomously handle GitHub Issues from creation to merged PR.


Quick Start

Start Work on a GitHub Issue

# User triggers via any of:
@beads start #123
bd start 123
/beads-start 123

Check BEADS Status

bd ready          # Show tasks ready to work
bd list           # Show all tasks
bd stats          # Show project statistics
bd doctor         # Check system health

Agent Roster

Agent Role Spawned When
Issue Orchestrator Main coordinator per Issue Issue receives agent-ready label
Researcher Agent Codebase exploration Orchestrator creates research task
Architect Agent Implementation planning Research complete
Product Manager Agent Use case & user benefit review Design review gate (parallel)
Designer Agent UX/API design review Design review gate (parallel)
Security Design Agent Security threat modeling Design review gate (parallel)
CTO Agent TDD readiness & plan review Design review gate (parallel)
Coder Agent TDD implementation Design review gate approved
Code Review Agent Internal code review Implementation complete
Security Auditor Security review (code) Implementation complete
Release Engineer Agent Safe delivery from merge through production QA approves PR, PR reaches merge readiness
PR Shepherd PR lifecycle management PR created

See ./agents/ directory for detailed agent definitions.

Read the full file on GitHub · 872 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. 1mo ago First seen · 872 lines · 27 tokens per session scan A 2a31dd3e1702

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start is a skill published in the GitHub repository dsifry/metaswarm (421 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 27 tokens to every session and 7,169 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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