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 skills add hybridlabor-api/bdb-dev-optimized-agent-skills --skill startcyclegit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hybridlabor-api/bdb-dev-optimized-agent-skillsWrote 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/hybridlabor-api/bdb-dev-optimized-agent-skills/startcycle)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/hybridlabor-api/bdb-dev-optimized-agent-skills/startcycle"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/hybridlabor-api/bdb-dev-optimized-agent-skills/startcycle/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/hybridlabor-api/bdb-dev-optimized-agent-skills/startcycle"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/hybridlabor-api/bdb-dev-optimized-agent-skills/startcycle.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector pass
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 5.1 | $0.00062 | $0.01770 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00031 | $0.00885 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00012 | $0.00354 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00006 | $0.00177 |
Grade A, and why
startcycle 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 7d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 129 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
/startcycle — Linear Build Pipeline
A straight-line run through the BDB agent roster. Whoever invokes this skill invokes each step in turn, in order, and every hand-off between steps is a file written under production_artifacts/. Nothing else is shared between steps — no memory, no live conversation state, no orchestrator process watching over the run.
┌──────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ 0. BRAINSTORM & SPECIFICATION │
│ (/bdbrainstorm / /grill-me) │
└──────────────────────┬───────────────────────┘
│
▼
┌──────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ 1. ARCHITECT │
│ goal ──▶ 00_execution_plan.md │
└──────────────────────┬───────────────────────┘
▼
┌──────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ 2. TECHLEAD │
│ approve plan, or send back to Architect │
│ (once) │
└──────────────────────┬───────────────────────┘
▼
┌──────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────┐
▼ ▼ ▼
┌───────────────────┐ ┌───────────────────────┐ ┌───────────────────────┐
│ 3a. UI/UX │ │ 3b. ENGINEERING │ │ 3c. MEDIA/EVENTTECH │
│ 01_frontend_spec.md│ │ 02_backend_schema.md │ │ 03_media_pipeline.md │
│ frontend/src/ │ │ backend/src/ │ │ (only if goal needs it)│
└──────────┬──────────┘ └───────────┬────────────┘ └───────────┬────────────┘
└──────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────┘
▼
┌──────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ 4. REVIEWER │
│ adversarial pass ──▶ review_findings.md │
└──────────────────────┬───────────────────────┘
▼
── pipeline ends here by default ──
│
(only if release requested)
▼
┌──────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ 5. SHIPPING (optional) │
│ quality gate ──▶ 04_release_report.md │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────┘
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.
- 7d ago First seen · 129 lines · 62 tokens per session scan A 676750eef34a
startcycle is a skill published in the GitHub repository hybridlabor-api/bdb-dev-optimized-agent-skills (6 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 62 tokens to every session and 1,770 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 2026-09-03.
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