start

start is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from MikahNiehaus/ClaudeBoost. It costs 72 tokens per session (2,614 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A guided workflow for starting a software build or feature. It first examines the codebase and engineering practices, identifies reusable work, explains open questions and architecture, and then consults you.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate an existing repository, plan a new feature, find work that can be reused, and discuss architecture before coding.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of starting with unclear requirements, duplicated work, or an unsuitable design.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — body not stored (licence); the path alone says nothing.

Good fit Use it to investigate an existing repository, plan a new feature, find work that can be reused, and discuss architecture before coding.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mikahniehaus/claudeboost/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 MikahNiehaus/ClaudeBoost --skill start
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MikahNiehaus/ClaudeBoost

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 start

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/mikahniehaus/claudeboost/start/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/mikahniehaus/claudeboost/start)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/mikahniehaus/claudeboost/start"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/mikahniehaus/claudeboost/start/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

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.

agentmods 80×15 button for start

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/mikahniehaus/claudeboost/start"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/mikahniehaus/claudeboost/start.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 72 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,614 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 unknown 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 $0.00072 $0.02614
Opus 5.5 $0.00029 $0.01046
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00523
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00261

Measured 8d ago against content hash 261388baab52, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 8d 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.

clean-rag/portable/skills/start/SKILL.md · 190 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

Read it on GitHub

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. 8d ago First seen · 190 lines · 72 tokens per session scan A 261388baab52

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start is a skill published in the GitHub repository MikahNiehaus/ClaudeBoost (9 stars, last pushed yesterday), with no licence file. It adds 72 tokens to every session and 2,614 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-10-02.

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