metis-session-start

metis-session-start is a skill for Claude Code from gsaranti/pantheon. It costs 16 tokens per session (664 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A session-start skill that restores a coding agent's understanding of a project from files in its .metis folder.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it at the beginning of a session to load the active task and selected project state, while reporting incomplete state files as anomalies.
Why use it?
It prevents the agent from starting each session without knowing the previous handoff, current work, build backlog, or project notes.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it at the beginning of a session to load the active task and selected project state, while reporting incomplete state files as anomalies.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/gsaranti/pantheon/metis-session-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 gsaranti/pantheon --skill metis-session-start
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gsaranti/pantheon

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 16 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 664 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 $0.00016 $0.00664
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00332
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00133
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00066

Measured 8d ago against content hash 1e99a7c8b800, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

metis-session-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 8d 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/metis/.claude-code/skills/metis-session-start/SKILL.md · 47 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 47 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/metis-session-start

Read the minimum set of files that orients the agent to the project's current state.

Preconditions

.metis/ must exist. If it does not, stop and point at /metis-init.

Partial state inside .metis/ (missing or incomplete files) surfaces as an Anomaly in the Return rather than a hard error.

Load

In this order:

  1. .metis/CURRENT.md — the previous session's handoff, including the active-task pointer. The primary rehydration source.
  2. .metis/SYNTHESIS.md — what's being built, when it exists. Loaded once at session start so the rest of the session's work can lean on it without re-reading.
  3. .metis/INDEX.md — the concept → source-doc map, when it exists.
  4. .metis/BUILD.md — the build backlog, when it exists. Confirms the active item and shows what remains.

Do not load

  • .metis/CONTRADICTIONS.md, .metis/QUESTIONS.md, .metis/RESOLVED.md — reconcile/walk artifacts. Loaded on demand by the skills that need them, not at session start.
  • docs/ — source corpus. Loaded on demand by skills that turn on specific passages.

Write scope

None.

Return

  • Active task — the active item: the one named by CURRENT.md Active task when it points at a live BUILD.md entry, otherwise the first To build item as next-up (the pointer lags until /metis-session-end first sets it — e.g. right after /metis-build-spec). Include backlog progress from BUILD.md (e.g. "2 built, 9 to build"). If the backlog isn't built yet, say so.
  • What happened last session — one paragraph from CURRENT.md What happened. If CURRENT.md is missing or empty, say so directly.
  • In flight — what's being worked on right now, from CURRENT.md Current state — including, when the active item spans multiple tasks, where the item stands and what its next task is. If nothing is in flight, say so.
  • Open questions — the list from CURRENT.md Open questions. Surfaced as items the user may want to address.
  • Where to start — directly from CURRENT.md Where to start. Do not rewrite — pass it through.
  • Anomalies — anything unexpected: missing CURRENT.md (suggest /metis-init), an Active task pointer that names an entry absent from BUILD.md, CURRENT.md referencing files that don't exist on disk, .metis/BUILD.md or SYNTHESIS.md mentioned by the handoff but absent. Surface rather than absorb.

Read the full file on GitHub · 47 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. 8d ago First seen · 47 lines · 16 tokens per session scan A 1e99a7c8b800

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metis-session-start is a skill published in the GitHub repository gsaranti/pantheon (3 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 16 tokens to every session and 664 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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