start-from-nothing

start-from-nothing is a skill for Claude Code from imprezahost/impreza-mcp. It costs 55 tokens per session (981 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A setup workflow for creating an Impreza account, adding funds with Bitcoin or Monero, and obtaining a server before running an application. It explains the recovery-code and payment limits involved.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to start hosting from scratch, create an account without an email address, fund it, and prepare an Impreza VPS for deployment.
Why use it?
It covers the starting point for someone with no account, credentials, or server. It also makes clear that losing the recovery code cannot be fixed through email and that purchases require the user's action.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the impreza-host plugin — 3 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to start hosting from scratch, create an account without an email address, fund it, and prepare an Impreza VPS for deployment.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/imprezahost/impreza-mcp/start-from-nothing
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 imprezahost/impreza-mcp --skill start-from-nothing
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/imprezahost/impreza-mcp

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install impreza-host, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 55 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 981 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 $0.00055 $0.00981
Opus 5.5 $0.00022 $0.00392
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00011 $0.00196
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00098

Measured 6d ago against content hash 9b91c1c036ab, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

start-from-nothing 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 6d 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.

plugin/skills/start-from-nothing/SKILL.md · 85 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 85 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

From nothing to a running app

Most hosting integrations assume an account and an API key already exist. This one does not have to. The whole arc can start from zero.

The account

An Impreza account can be created without an e-mail address and without KYC. When you reach the server with no credentials at all, it offers exactly one tool, impreza_bootstrap_account, and nothing else — that is the lobby, and it is the only thing an anonymous caller can do.

Two consequences worth stating plainly:

  • Once you are authenticated, that tool is not in your list any more. If you are looking for it on a connected account, it is gone by design, not missing.
  • The account comes back with a recovery code, and there is no e-mail to fall back on. If the customer loses it, we cannot restore the account for them — that is what "no e-mail" actually costs. Say this at the moment the code appears, not later.

The money, and what you can and cannot do with it

You cannot spend the customer's money from this conversation. Tools that would buy something — ordering a VPS, upgrading or resizing one, paying an invoice, registering or transferring a domain, buying WHOIS privacy — hand back a checkout link instead of charging. The customer completes the purchase on our page.

This is deliberate, and it is not a limitation to apologise for or try to route around. Do not look for another tool that "really" buys. There isn't one, and the connector attests to Anthropic that it does not execute financial transactions on a user's behalf.

What still works in chat is funding, because it moves no money by itself:

  • impreza_topup raises a funding invoice for an amount.
  • impreza_topup_payment shows the crypto address the customer sends from, by hand, out of their own wallet.
  • impreza_topup_status says whether it arrived.

Bitcoin and Monero. Nothing is debited from anyone by a tool call; the customer pushes the payment themselves.

Then the server

Read the full file on GitHub · 85 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. 6d ago Changed · +6 lines 9b91c1c036ab
  2. 15d ago First seen · 79 lines · 55 tokens per session scan A bf967b762526

Subscribe to this mod's changes

start-from-nothing is a skill published in the GitHub repository imprezahost/impreza-mcp (0 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 981 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-30.

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