start

A first-time setup and discovery workflow for Mycelium, a product-thinking framework that guides an agent through structured questions before building.

In plain words
What is it for?
Creating Mycelium project files and asking four discovery questions to produce a brief covering the audience, key assumption, main risk, and next action.
Why use it?
It reduces the gap between installing the framework and having a clear, evidence-checked brief for an idea.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 70 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,404 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 $0.00070 $0.02404
Opus 5 $0.00035 $0.01202
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00481
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00240

Measured 2d ago against content hash ae956eed74f9, 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.

plugins/mycelium/skills/start/SKILL.md · 132 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 132 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/mycelium:start — combined first-time entry

When this skill runs, follow the flow below. The skill is designed so a first-time user goes from "plugin installed" to "holding a one-page brief on their idea" in a single invocation.

Step 1: Welcome (~30 seconds of context, then move on)

Output a short welcome before doing anything. Do NOT skip this — the install-to-here gap is the friction point this skill exists to address. The user just installed a 45-skill framework and has no context yet.

"Welcome to Mycelium.

Mycelium makes the agent think before it builds — it can't skip the hard questions; each step has to clear an evidence check first. Grounded in 30+ established product-thinking frameworks; you'll meet the relevant ones as they come up.

Two quick steps:

  1. Set up Mycelium's files in .claude/ — about 10 seconds. Your existing files (CLAUDE.md, README, etc.) aren't touched; only a new .claude/ directory is added.
  2. A 10-minute discovery brief: 4 questions about your idea, then a one-page brief covering who it's for, the biggest assumption, the biggest risk, and your next concrete move.

Let's begin."

Step 2: Detect existing state — HARD GATE

This must be the very first action after the welcome. Do NOT run any other Bash commands, Edit/Write operations, or "let me prepare the directories" reasoning before this gate fires.

Run exactly this check, and only this check:

test -f "$CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR/.claude/diamonds/active.yml"
  • If exit code 0 (file EXISTS): the project already has Mycelium state. Skip directly to Step 4 routing output. Do NOT run setup. Do NOT run mkdir. Do NOT touch .gitkeep stubs. Setup-style operations on an already-initialized project waste tokens and trigger Read-before-Write tool errors when the agent then tries to write to existing files. Detected during 2026-05-09 plugin-form dogfood — the agent ran mkdir -p .claude/... before honoring this gate, then hit a Write error on active.yml and only then realized the project was initialized. The fix is structural: the gate is the first action.

Read the full file on GitHub · 132 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 · 132 lines · 70 tokens per session scan A ae956eed74f9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

start is a skill published in the GitHub repository haabe/mycelium (45 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 70 tokens to every session and 2,404 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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