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.
npx agentmods add skills/hank95/mdpm/pm-startnpx skills add Hank95/mdpm --skill pm-startgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Hank95/mdpmWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/hank95/mdpm/pm-start)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/hank95/mdpm/pm-start"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/hank95/mdpm/pm-start.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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 | $0.00010 | $0.00509 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00005 | $0.00254 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00002 | $0.00102 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00001 | $0.00051 |
Grade A, and why
pm-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.
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.
What it actually says
/pm-start
Move a task into tasks/active/ and officially begin work on it. Argument $ARGUMENTS identifies the task (ID like PRJ-123, or partial title match).
How to run
Delegate to the MDPM CLI — never manipulate task files manually. It handles file moves, work log appends, dep checks, and filename preservation atomically:
python3 "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/bin/mdpm" --json start $ARGUMENTS
Interpreting the result
The CLI returns JSON with ok, task, changes, warnings. Branch on:
- ok: false, error: "ambiguous_ref" — the ref matched multiple tasks. The response includes
candidates. Print them and ask the user which one they meant. - ok: false, error: "not_found" — no match. Suggest
/pm-listor/pm-search. - ok: false, error: "precondition_failed" — usually unmet dependencies. The message says which ones. Ask the user if they want to start anyway (re-run with
--force) or start the dependency first. - warnings: ["already active — no change"] — tell the user and show the task's Work Log so they can see where they left off.
- ok: true — confirm the move. Print the task id, title, and objective. Ask "What do you want to tackle first?"
If the user didn't give a ref
Run python3 "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/bin/mdpm" list --status backlog and ask which one they want to start. Then re-invoke this skill with that ID.
Notes
- The CLI already appends "Started work." to the work log. Don't duplicate.
- Don't move files with
mvor edit the status field withsed. The CLI does all of it atomically — if you skip it, you'll leave the repo with the file inactive/but thestatus:frontmatter still sayingbacklog, which will confuse/pm-status. - Starting a blocked task implies the block is resolved. If
status: blockedin the task, ask the user "is the blocker cleared?" before runningmdpm start.
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 · 37 lines · 10 tokens per session scan A a24f80ad9d37
pm-start is a skill published in the GitHub repository Hank95/mdpm (3 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 10 tokens to every session and 509 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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