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.
npx agentmods add skills/mrvladd-d/memobank/cold-startnpx skills add mrvladd-d/memobank --skill cold-startgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mrvladd-d/memobankWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/mrvladd-d/memobank/cold-start)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/mrvladd-d/memobank/cold-start"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/mrvladd-d/memobank/cold-start.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00025 | $0.05266 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00013 | $0.02633 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00005 | $0.01053 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00003 | $0.00527 |
Grade A, and why
cold-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 6d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 420 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Cold Start: Memory Bank + Agents bootstrap (greenfield & brownfield)
Summary
Note:
cold-startis the package skill for all-in-one bootstrap. Do not confuse it with the generated project command/cold-start: that command is a lightweight router used after skeleton creation inside a target repo. For modular usage, prefer individual skills:mb-init(skeleton),mb-analysis(optional idea discovery),mb-from-prd(greenfield),mb-map-codebase(brownfield),mb-review(review),mb-execute(implementation),mb-verify(UAT),mb-red-verify(semantic adversarial verification).
- What it does: creates the Memory Bank skeleton, writes agent entry points, and routes the repo into the right workflow.
- Use it when: you want one entry point for either a new project with a PRD or an existing codebase that needs mapping first.
- Input: repository root plus either
prd.md/ requirements text or an existing codebase. - Output:
.memory-bank/,.tasks/,.protocols/, agent entry files, and the next step for greenfield or brownfield work.
Supported scenarios:
- Idea-only: repo has a raw idea, but no stable PRD yet; optionally route through
/analysis,/brainstorm, and/brief. - Clear concept: repo has enough direction for a product brief; normally run
/brief, then/constitutiononly if project principles are not alreadyratified|partial, before/write-prd. - Greenfield: repo has
prd.mdor requirements text, but no code yet. - Brownfield: repo already contains code and needs as-is documentation before change planning.
Non-negotiable principles
1) Orchestrator vs workers
- You (main agent) are the orchestrator. You plan and coordinate.
- Workers (subagents) do the heavy lifting (scanning many files, producing long reports).
- Max depth = 2: orchestrator → subagent. No sub-sub-agents.
2) .tasks/ is runtime memory (НЕ Memory Bank)
- Every agent process gets a unique task folder:
.tasks/TASK-XXX/. - Subagents write detailed outputs there, and return only short summaries to the orchestrator.
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.
- 6d ago First seen · 420 lines · 25 tokens per session scan A f5bed775ee9b
cold-start is a skill published in the GitHub repository mrvladd-d/memobank (55 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 5,266 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-30.
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