start

start is a skill for Claude Code from moonxorsun/focus-claude-code. It costs 32 tokens per session (1,133 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A single-file planning method that keeps the plan and important findings in a Markdown file on disk during a complex task.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan multi-step coding tasks or research projects, track phases, and resume work from an existing session.
Why use it?
It prevents useful context, decisions, and problems from being lost between steps or sessions.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the focus plugin — 4 skills, 4 commands, 5 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to plan multi-step coding tasks or research projects, track phases, and resume work from an existing session.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/moonxorsun/focus-claude-code/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 moonxorsun/focus-claude-code --skill start
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/moonxorsun/focus-claude-code

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install focus, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills, 4 commands, 5 hooks.

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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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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.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 32 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,133 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 $0.00032 $0.01133
Opus 5.5 $0.00013 $0.00453
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00227
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00113

Measured 2mo ago against content hash e5e9888f16e5, 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 2mo 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.

plugins/focus/skills/start/SKILL.md · 165 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 165 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Environment

Variable Default
CLAUDE_FOCUS_DIR .claude/tmp/focus

Use $CLAUDE_FOCUS_DIR in paths. If unset, use the default .claude/tmp/focus.

Single-File Planning

Use a single persistent markdown file as your "working memory on disk."

Quick Start

  1. Check for existing session (use Glob):

    • If .claude/tmp/focus/focus_context.md exists → Ask user: "Found existing focus session. Continue it (use /focus:recover), or start fresh?"
    • If not found → Proceed
  2. Ensure directory exists: mkdir -p .claude/tmp/focus

  3. Create .claude/tmp/focus/focus_context.md using template below

  4. Update after each phase — Mark complete, record valuable information

See examples.md for template examples.

Template

# Focus: [short title]

## Task
[Brief description of what we're trying to accomplish]

## Plan
- [ ] Phase 1: ...
- [ ] Phase 2: ...
- [ ] Phase 3: ...

Optional sections — add any ## Section freely. Common examples:

## Findings
[Architecture patterns, conventions, external knowledge, techniques discovered]

## Issues
[Bugs encountered, root causes, resolutions]

## Decisions
[Design decisions with rationale, approach trade-offs]

Format within sections is free — use tables, lists, prose, whatever fits. The /focus:done workflow detects all ## sections and suggests archive destinations.

Category Reference

These categories guide what information is worth recording, and map to /focus:done archive targets:

Category What to record
architecture Patterns, structures, component design
bugs Unresolved bugs, known issues
resolved_bugs Fixed bugs with root cause and solution
troubleshooting Debugging processes, diagnostic steps
conventions Coding standards, naming rules
external_knowledge External references, API docs, libraries
techniques Implementation techniques, algorithms
decisions Design decisions, architectural choices
config Build system, configuration settings
ai_norms AI collaboration rules, behavioral norms

Read the full file on GitHub · 165 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 2mo ago First seen · 165 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A e5e9888f16e5

Subscribe to this mod's changes

start is a skill published in the GitHub repository moonxorsun/focus-claude-code (5 stars, last pushed 8mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 1,133 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-31.

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