spinup

A read-only project-orientation tool that reads saved project memory and produces a brief summary of the current situation and next possible action. It then waits for your direction.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when you want to resume, catch up, spin up, or find out where a previous session left off.
Why use it?
It helps you return to earlier work without rereading the whole project or accidentally starting work based on stale notes.

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/emaballarin/ccplugins/spinup
Any agent
npx skills add emaballarin/ccplugins --skill spinup
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/emaballarin/ccplugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 123 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,880 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 $0.00123 $0.02880
Opus 5 $0.00062 $0.01440
Sonnet 5 $0.00025 $0.00576
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00288

Measured 2d ago against content hash fc25e79aceff, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

spinup 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.

plugins/mindfunnel/skills/spinup/SKILL.md · 201 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 201 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/mf:spinup — project memory → session prime

Get up to speed on a project without starting any new work. Read persistent memory in priority order, summarise, then stop and wait for user direction.

Important

  1. Spinup is read-only. Never start work unprompted. Even if the memory says "the next thing to do is X", your job is to report that — not to start doing X.
  2. Read selectively. Budget 3–6 files for a typical spinup. Reading everything is expensive on context and rarely useful.
  3. Verify what you're about to cite. Memory is a point-in-time snapshot; file paths, commits, and symbols may be stale.
  4. Don't re-derive settled decisions. If a feedback memory says "closed as failed", don't re-propose it.

Instructions

Step 1: Open MEMORY.md directly

Auto-memory lives at ~/.claude/projects/<slug>/memory/ where <slug> is $PWD with every / replaced by - (deterministic — form the path inline, no shell call needed). On the happy path, go straight to Read ~/.claude/projects/<slug>/memory/MEMORY.md. If that read succeeds, you've simultaneously located the dir and loaded the index — skip the rest of this step.

Only fall back to diagnostics if the read fails:

  • ENOENT on MEMORY.md but the memory dir itself exists → treat as "primed but no memory yet" (step 2 behaviour).
  • ENOENT on the memory dir → the slug convention may differ on this host. Run ls ~/.claude/projects/ | grep <project_name_fragment> to find the actual dir; if multiple matches exist, prefer the one with the most recent MEMORY.md.

Step 2: Verify the project is primed

Memory-dir existence under ~/.claude/projects/<slug>/memory/ is the authoritative "has this session been worked on before" signal. AGENTS.md and PROJECT.md in the project root are the secondary "is this project wired up for mindfunnel" signal.

Confirm AGENTS.md and PROJECT.md exist in the project root (real files under the 0.3.0 split model; for projects primed by older versions they may still be symlinks — either works for this check). If either is missing:

Read the full file on GitHub · 201 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 · 201 lines · 123 tokens per session scan A fc25e79aceff

Subscribe to this mod's changes

spinup is a skill published in the GitHub repository emaballarin/ccplugins (3 stars, last pushed 26d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 123 tokens to every session and 2,880 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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