lw-start

lw-start is a skill for Claude Code from matteoroversi/lookward. It costs 114 tokens per session (5,273 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided tool for designing an ontology: a structured description of real-world objects, people, actions, and relationships. It organizes the model into semantic, kinetic, and dynamic layers, with the user's intended direction at the top.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define the structure of a world model before adding individual items. It helps decide what kinds of entities and relationships should be represented.
Why use it?
It helps prevent a data source such as a CRM from limiting the model to its existing tables. The result can represent the real world, including important ideas the source does not contain.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: SessionEnd hook event. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Part of the lookward plugin — 5 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to define the structure of a world model before adding individual items. It helps decide what kinds of entities and relationships should be represented.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/matteoroversi/lookward/lw-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 matteoroversi/lookward --skill lw-start
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/matteoroversi/lookward

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install lookward, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 114 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,273 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 $0.00114 $0.05273
Opus 5 $0.00057 $0.02636
Sonnet 5 $0.00023 $0.01055
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00527

Measured 10d ago against content hash 78b72b79be59, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

lw-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.

skills/lw-start/SKILL.md · 133 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 133 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

lw-start

The guided entry to Lookward. The deliverable is an ontology — typed objects, actors, actions, and typed links, on three layers (semantic · kinetic · dynamic), with the will on top giving direction. You accompany the user — explain each step, make them a participant, prompt for intention without nagging (ally of the Self, anti-sycophancy). Loads ontology/contract.md.

You design the ontology — you do not derive it bottom-up from the source's tables, and you never offer a menu of types. The shape comes from will + archetype (top-down lens); the signal is evidence that fills and tests that shape (bottom-up). You propose the typed spine and the user approves it before any node is created.

The failure to avoid. Reading a dense source (a CRM, a project tracker) and reproducing its tables as your object types is ossification — you get a mirror of the source, not an ontology. An ontology models the real world, including what the source lacks (capabilities, the strategic layer, the why behind a relation). If your proposed object types look like the source's tables, stop and re-model. (See the anti-ossification self-check in step 5.)

Meet the user where they are (governs the whole flow)

People arrive at very different levels — some have never heard of git, GitHub, a repo, MCP, or the word ontology. Adapt to the person in front of you; never dump jargon. Calibrate from how they answer (or one gentle question), then:

  • Non-technical user: never say "ontology", "GitHub repo", "commit", "MCP". Speak plainly — the ontology is "a map of your world: the things in it, what you do, and where you're going"; sync is "a private space that's backed up and keeps a history so nothing is lost". Do the technical setup for them, invisibly. Same outcome (a typed, living model), zero plumbing exposed.
  • Intermediate: light explanation, offer the choice in plain terms, handle setup with a one-line "here's what I did".
  • Technical: full control and the real words — ontology, typed objects/links, git init, a private GitHub repo, the bundle layout, hooks.

Read the full file on GitHub · 133 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. 10d ago First seen · 133 lines · 114 tokens per session scan A 78b72b79be59

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lw-start is a skill published in the GitHub repository matteoroversi/lookward (7 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 114 tokens to every session and 5,273 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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