workflow-start

workflow-start is a skill for Claude Code from MageByte-Zero/spec-superflow. It costs 61 tokens per session (1,036 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

The starting point for a spec-superflow software workflow, a process that moves from written requirements through design, implementation, testing, and review. It checks the project's current stage and sends the work to the appropriate next step.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to start, continue, or resume a spec-superflow change, and to determine whether the project is exploring, specifying, preparing, building, debugging, or closing.
Why use it?
It prevents steps from being skipped or done in the wrong order. It also helps resume work safely when project files show that planning or implementation is already underway.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the spec-superflow plugin — 9 skills, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it to start, continue, or resume a spec-superflow change, and to determine whether the project is exploring, specifying, preparing, building, debugging, or closing.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/magebyte-zero/spec-superflow/workflow-start
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 MageByte-Zero/spec-superflow --skill workflow-start
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MageByte-Zero/spec-superflow

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install spec-superflow, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills, 1 hook.

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Per session 61 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,036 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00061 $0.01036
Opus 5.5 $0.00024 $0.00414
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00207
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00104

Measured 1mo ago against content hash c9a55cd09dcd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

workflow-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 1mo 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/workflow-start/SKILL.md · 44 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 44 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Workflow Start

Bundled runtime

Before executing a CLI line below, replace its leading SSF with node "<plugin-root>/scripts/spec-superflow.mjs"; <plugin-root> is the absolute directory two levels above this file. Never run SSF literally or call an ssf from PATH.

Use only for an explicit spec-superflow request or an existing change. Ordinary coding does not require a spec workflow.

Resume

Run SSF resume <change-dir> --json once. It combines state, handoffs, checkpoints and current-plan inspection. Use the returned absolute change.path for all subsequent operations: recovery may redirect a stale source copy into its recorded worktree. Follow next_action; do not repeat all component commands unless diagnosing that result. A blocked continuation is not a retry instruction; resolve its named cause before running it again. Read only the artifacts relevant to the next action.

  • debugging: diagnose first, even if a plan is stale. Never dispatch an eligible wave during diagnosis.
  • closing: logical completion. If a recorded isolation still has physical finish pending, route to release-archivist for that remaining action, subject to existing merge authorization. Otherwise stop.
  • abandoned: stop.
  • A ready handoff needs review through SSF handoff resolve; an active handoff is non-blocking. Stale checkpoints are history, not current evidence.
  • Missing/stale Full plans block implementation, not investigation. Valid short paths and Tweak do not require plans.

Update checks are optional (SSF runtime check-update), cached and non-blocking. Never make network access a recovery prerequisite.

New request

Infer scope and risks from the request and repository; do not turn CLI fields into a questionnaire. Validate the change name as a single safe relative path segment under changes/ and create only that directory. Reuse authorization already given. Never infer approval from artifact existence.

Offer only two paths, without a mode-selection interview:

Read the full file on GitHub · 44 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. 1mo ago Changed · +4 lines c9a55cd09dcd
  2. 1mo ago Changed · -223 lines · -64 tokens per session 6094331dda52
  3. 1mo ago Changed e000ec45f6af
  4. 1mo ago First seen · 263 lines · 125 tokens per session scan A 029137c0b76b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

workflow-start is a skill published in the GitHub repository MageByte-Zero/spec-superflow (873 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 61 tokens to every session and 1,036 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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