What is praxis-start?

A project-start command for Praxis, a structured project workflow for coding agents. It creates the project's description, memory folders, routing information, and a summary of applicable rules.

Use it to bootstrap a Praxis project, record its mode and technical context, copy governance settings, and identify the next command.

It gives later project work a shared starting point instead of leaving the agent to infer the project's goals, technology, and constraints.

praxis-start — Skill for Claude Code by jeet129

Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jeet129/praxis

agentmods

npx agentmods add skills/jeet129/praxis/praxis-start

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install praxis, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 105 skills, 12 commands, 17 agents, 6 hooks.

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.

README.md

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Your own site

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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.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 33 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 440 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00033	$0.00440
Opus 5	$0.00016	$0.00220
Sonnet 5	$0.00007	$0.00088
Haiku 4.5	$0.00003	$0.00044

Measured 10d ago against content hash 6fc7ccc98d8d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

praxis-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 10d 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.

codex-plugin-assets/skills/praxis-start/SKILL.md · 32 lines

What it actually says

capability: command
domain: codex-plugin
state: active
dependencies: [delivery-planner, architecture-documentation, project-memory]
triggers: [praxis start, bootstrap project, start project, initialize praxis]
outputs: [project_charter, memory_tree, active_gate_summary, next_command]
consumers: [praxis-discover, praxis-audit, praxis-slice]
references: [../../workflows/greenfield-api-service.yaml, ../../workflows/brownfield-enhancement.yaml, ../../governance/governance.yaml]

Praxis Start

Run the Praxis bootstrap flow for Codex.

Locate the installed plugin root by walking up from this skill until workflows/ and governance/ are present.
Read skills/delivery-planner/SKILL.md, skills/project-memory/SKILL.md, and governance/governance.yaml.
Create or update .project/semantic/project-charter.md with project mode, data/ML/AI flags, compliance regimes, scale, availability, tenancy, stack, and cloud.
Create the .project/ memory tree if missing.
Summarize active governance gates from governance/governance.yaml.
Seed per-project governance overrides: copy the plugin's governance/model-routing.yaml and governance/autonomy.yaml to .project/governance/ if not already present, then ask the user ONE concise question set — keep default adaptive routing/autonomy, or tune force_tier, cost_weights, stop_after, run_budget for this engagement. Apply answers to the PROJECT copies only; never edit the plugin's files.
Recommend $praxis-discover for greenfield or $praxis-audit for brownfield.

Do not modify Claude Code plugin files.

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.

10d ago First seen · 32 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A 6fc7ccc98d8d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

praxis-start is a skill published in the GitHub repository jeet129/praxis (7 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 440 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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