kickoff

kickoff is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from koolamusic/claudefiles. It costs 54 tokens per session (1,237 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A project-starting workflow that examines a repository or asks questions about a new idea, then creates project documentation and an initial roadmap. It also initializes the project's Jira and Studio workflow tools.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to begin a project, understand an unfamiliar repository, record what the project is meant to do, and decide what to build first.
Why use it?
It removes the need to organize project goals, constraints, and first tasks manually when starting or taking over a codebase.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/koolamusic/claudefiles/kickoff
Any agent
npx skills add koolamusic/claudefiles --skill kickoff
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/koolamusic/claudefiles

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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 kickoff

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/koolamusic/claudefiles/kickoff.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/koolamusic/claudefiles/kickoff)
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Per session 54 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,237 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 $0.00054 $0.01237
Opus 5 $0.00027 $0.00619
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00247
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00124

Measured 5d ago against content hash dde789115271, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

kickoff 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 5d 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/kickoff/SKILL.md · 149 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 149 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Kickoff

One command to go from empty repo (or unfamiliar codebase) to a working project with full workflow infrastructure. Produces .project/PROJECT.md + ROADMAP.md, initializes jira and studio, and points you at the first sprint.

Input

$ARGUMENTS:

  • Free text — a description of what this project is and what you're trying to build
  • Empty — start with adaptive questioning to understand the project

Process

1. Understand the project

If the user provided a description, use it as the seed. Either way, explore:

  • Codebase scanls, package.json, Cargo.toml, go.mod, README.md, CLAUDE.md, recent git history. What exists already?
  • Stack detection — language, framework, database, deployment target
  • Existing workflow state.jira/, .project/, .planning/ (legacy), .workspacerc

Then ask focused questions via AskUserQuestion (max 4 questions, bundled):

  • What is this project? (one sentence)
  • Who uses it and what problem does it solve?
  • What are the hard constraints? (stack, timeline, compliance, team size)
  • What does "done" look like for the first milestone?

Skip questions the codebase already answers.

2. Set up infrastructure

Run these in sequence:

a. Studio — if no .workspacerc exists, invoke /studio:setup semantics (create workspace, symlinks, gitignore block, hook wiring). If .workspacerc already exists, skip.

b. Jira — if no .jira/ exists, invoke /jira:init semantics (bootstrap .jira/ with STATE.md, sprints/). If .jira/ already exists, skip.

c. Create .project/mkdir -p .project/. If studio is active, this will be a symlink into the workspace.

3. Write PROJECT.md

Write .project/PROJECT.md:

---
name: <project name>
created: <YYYY-MM-DD>
stack: <detected stack summary>
status: active
---

# <Project Name>

## Purpose
<2-3 sentences: what this project is and why it exists>

## Constraints
<bulleted list of hard constraints — technical, timeline, compliance, team>

## Success criteria
<what "done" looks like — measurable where possible>

## Stack
<language, framework, database, deployment, key dependencies>

## Team
<who's working on this — roles, not names if unknown>

## Decisions
<significant architectural or product decisions already made — reference CLAUDE.md, ADRs, or CONTEXT.md entries>

Read the full file on GitHub · 149 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. 5d ago First seen · 149 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A dde789115271

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kickoff is a skill published in the GitHub repository koolamusic/claudefiles (132 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 1,237 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 2026-08-30.

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