start-session

start-session is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Imtylerrrrrr/second-brain. It costs 46 tokens per session (432 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A read-only session-start guide that restores project context from a second-brain vault, a folder of notes about ongoing work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it at the start of a session to read project dashboards and threads, check Git history, and identify stale or unfinished handoffs.
Why use it?
It helps the agent see what happened previously, what should happen next, and whether those notes have become outdated.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the second-brain plugin — 4 skills, 1 hook shipped together

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/imtylerrrrrr/second-brain/start-session
Any agent
npx skills add Imtylerrrrrr/second-brain --skill start-session
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Imtylerrrrrr/second-brain

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install second-brain, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills, 1 hook.

Wrote 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.

agentmods badge for start-session

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/imtylerrrrrr/second-brain/start-session"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/imtylerrrrrr/second-brain/start-session.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 46 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 432 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 $0.00046 $0.00432
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00216
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00086
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00043

Measured 4d ago against content hash 017930b7c9ea, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

start-session 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 4d 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.

skills/start-session/SKILL.md · 28 lines

What it actually says

second-brain: start-session

Read-only. Restores context; writes nothing.

Steps

  1. Locate the vault (cwd or ancestors containing Projects/Dashboard.md; else registered vaults in ~/.claude/second-brain/vaults, ask if several). None → "run /second-brain:setup first."
  2. Vault brief from Projects/Dashboard.md + Projects/_AUTO_status.md, tersely:
    • 🔴 blocked / ⏰ deadline rows first
    • 🟢 active rows: Last session + Next from the Dashboard
    • dirty worktrees from _AUTO_status.md worth committing
  3. Repo thread — if the user named a repo or cwd is inside one, read Projects/<repo>.md and restore:

    Last handoff (@last_handoff_commit): <Last: content> Next (intent): <Next: content>

  4. Mechanical drift check for that repo:
    • git -C <repo> log --oneline <last_handoff_commit>..HEAD → N commits since handoff. N>0 → "⚠️ N commits since last handoff:" + subjects; the recorded thread may be stale.
    • last_handoff_commit: none (auto-stub) → "never handed off yet — onboard with /second-brain:analyze ."
    • Note contradicts git facts (branch mismatch, note claims work git doesn't show) → say so and recommend /second-brain:analyze. Never silently trust a stale note.
  5. End with: "Pick up where you left off — ?"

Rules

  • Writes nothing. Missing/stale notes → recommend the right command, don't fix here.
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. 4d ago First seen · 28 lines · 46 tokens per session scan A 017930b7c9ea

Subscribe to this mod's changes

start-session is a skill published in the GitHub repository Imtylerrrrrr/second-brain (1 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 46 tokens to every session and 432 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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