start-project

start-project is a skill for Claude Code from jason21wc/ai-governance-mcp. It costs 154 tokens per session (778 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A project-starting workflow for setting up AI governance, meaning agreed rules and records for how an AI-assisted project is run. It asks about the goal, what completion means, non-goals, and whether the project is an app or a document before creating project scaffolding.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to onboard a new project and create its governance and memory files.
Why use it?
It prevents implementation from starting without a shared understanding of the project’s purpose and boundaries.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions AGENTS.md.

Good fit Use it to onboard a new project and create its governance and memory files.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jason21wc/ai-governance-mcp/start-project
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 jason21wc/ai-governance-mcp --skill start-project
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jason21wc/ai-governance-mcp

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 154 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 778 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 $0.00154 $0.00778
Opus 5 $0.00077 $0.00389
Sonnet 5 $0.00031 $0.00156
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00078

Measured 11d ago against content hash f16212f98c66, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

start-project 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 11d 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.

global-skills/start-project/SKILL.md · 35 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 35 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Runtime Context

After the skill loads, inspect the current directory, governance-memory markers, and Git state with ordinary read-only calls. Missing memory and missing Git history are expected greenfield states, not failures.

Instructions

You are onboarding a project so the work runs under the AI-governance framework from the start. The discriminating move is discovery before commitment: establish the founding context (Goal / Done-looks-like / Non-goals / app-vs-document) BEFORE any implementation, then lay down the governance + memory scaffolding. Read procedure.md in this skill folder for the full protocol; this is the orchestration shell.

Quick Start

  1. Collect the Runtime Context above, then governevaluate_governance(planned_action="initialize and onboard a new project").
  2. Read procedure.md and run its phases in order: govern → calibrate (mode + app-vs-document) → minimal founding questions (CFR §1.3.5 floor, depth-scaled) → scaffold_project (preview → confirm; non-destructive gap-fill) → seed the design doc → hand off to plan-mode.
  3. NEW mode only in this version. If the folder already has governance memory, confirm with the user before re-scaffolding (scaffold_project is non-destructive, but don't surprise them).

Key Principles

  • The founding floor is non-negotiable (CFR §1.3.5). Even on a "clear" request, ask Goal / Done-looks-like / Non-goals / app-vs-document. Depth scales with calibration; the floor does not.
  • App vs. document drives templates + loaders, not memory location. Memory files live in _ai-context/ for BOTH types (unified layout v2.62.0); project_type="code" adds root loaders (AGENTS.md/CLAUDE.md) pointing in and coding-flavored templates. Decide this before scaffolding.
  • Non-destructive. scaffold_project skips existing files — it fills gaps, never overwrites. Always run the preview (no confirmed) → confirm (confirmed=true) flow.
  • Freeform, not a menu. Ask the founding questions as natural conversation, not an Option-A/B/C list (Behavioral Floor freeform-dialogue).

Read the full file on GitHub · 35 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 11d ago First seen · 35 lines · 154 tokens per session scan A f16212f98c66

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start-project is a skill published in the GitHub repository jason21wc/ai-governance-mcp (0 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 154 tokens to every session and 778 once invoked, about $0.0008 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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