start

start is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from lxyer/multi-agent-collaboration-system. It costs 71 tokens per session (2,360 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command that starts an AI-assisted development session by reading the project's workflow, current status, active tasks, identity, and development guidelines. It then classifies the incoming work and routes it to an appropriate workflow.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it at the beginning of a coding session, when resuming work, or when starting a new task that should follow the project's Trellis workflow.
Why use it?
It gives the agent the project context and rules needed before making changes. This reduces confusion when starting a new task or resuming work in an unfamiliar codebase.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents); $skill-name invocation.

Not installable on its own: it runs a file from its repository that does not travel with it. Clone the repository, or install whatever ships that file. The line is python3 ./.trellis/scripts/get_context.py.

Install

Getting it into your agent

There is no command for this one: it runs only inside a plugin, and the catalogue could not identify which plugin ships it. The source is linked below.

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 71 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,360 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 5.1 $0.00071 $0.02360
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.01180
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00472
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00236

Measured 5d ago against content hash 8853e4ddc168, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 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.

.agents/skills/start/SKILL.md · 352 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 352 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Start Session

Initialize your AI development session and begin working on tasks.


Operation Types

Marker Meaning Executor
[AI] Bash scripts or tool calls executed by AI You (AI)
[USER] Skills executed by user User

Initialization [AI]

Step 1: Understand Development Workflow

First, read the workflow guide to understand the development process:

cat .trellis/workflow.md

Follow the instructions in workflow.md - it contains:

  • Core principles (Read Before Write, Follow Standards, etc.)
  • File system structure
  • Development process
  • Best practices

Step 2: Get Current Context

python3 ./.trellis/scripts/get_context.py

This shows: developer identity, git status, current task (if any), active tasks.

Step 3: Read Guidelines Index

python3 ./.trellis/scripts/get_context.py --mode packages

This shows available packages and their spec layers. Read the relevant spec indexes:

cat .trellis/spec/<package>/<layer>/index.md   # Package-specific guidelines
cat .trellis/spec/guides/index.md              # Thinking guides (always read)

Important: The index files are navigation — they list the actual guideline files (e.g., error-handling.md, conventions.md, mock-strategies.md). At this step, just read the indexes to understand what's available. When you start actual development, you MUST go back and read the specific guideline files relevant to your task, as listed in the index's Pre-Development Checklist.

Step 4: Report and Ask

Report what you learned and ask: "What would you like to work on?"


Task Classification

When user describes a task, classify it:

Type Criteria Workflow
Question User asks about code, architecture, or how something works Answer directly
Trivial Fix Typo fix, comment update, single-line change, < 5 minutes Direct Edit
Simple Task Clear goal, 1-2 files, well-defined scope Quick confirm → Task Workflow
Complex Task Vague goal, multiple files, architectural decisions Brainstorm → Task Workflow

Read the full file on GitHub · 352 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 · 352 lines · 71 tokens per session scan A 8853e4ddc168

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start is a skill published in the GitHub repository lxyer/multi-agent-collaboration-system (1 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 71 tokens to every session and 2,360 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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