start

A project-starting command and setup guide for DevRails 26. It routes work through an external bootstrap process or an existing Memory Bank workflow after the project's runtime skills have been installed.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps install or use the project's start command, route a clarified request, and follow the target repository's AGENTS.md instructions.
Why use it?
Starting a project with the wrong setup can create unsupported files, unclear tasks, or conflicts with the repository's role rules. This guidance defines what must be clarified before work begins.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nicelight/devrails-26/start
Any agent
npx skills add nicelight/DevRails-26 --skill start
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nicelight/DevRails-26

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 20 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 644 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00020 $0.00644
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00322
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00129
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00064

Measured 3d ago against content hash 02c851dbd243, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 3d 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/start/SKILL.md · 70 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 70 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Start

What This Skill Is

start is the package-level entrypoint for starting DevRails in a target repository. It does not bootstrap the target itself.

Do not confuse two related surfaces:

  • Package/install surface: use the installer from an available external DevRails checkout to install runtime command skills or bootstrap the skeleton.
  • Generated project command: /start is the lightweight scenario router used after runtime skills are installed in the target repository.

The generated /start command is sourced from skills/_shared/references/commands/start.md in this source repo and is written into target .agents/skills/start/SKILL.md and .claude/skills/start/SKILL.md by scripts/install-framework.mjs.

Non-Negotiables

  • Do not create epics, features, implementation plans, or runnable task records without a clarified PRD/delta.
  • Do not create .memory-bank/commands/; runtime command skills are installed directly into .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/.
  • Do not assume ORCHESTRATOR role or spawn subagents. Follow the target AGENTS.md role contract.
  • Do not use direct npx skills add <source-repo> for this source-only fork. Use scripts/install-framework.mjs from an available external DevRails checkout; it prepares a temporary vendored copy.
  • Keep skeleton/bootstrap separate from product planning. A fresh skeleton has empty .memory-bank/tasks/index.json and no FT-000 or product task records.

If .memory-bank/ Is Missing

Treat the current repository root as <target-repo> unless the operator explicitly supplied another target. Accept <devrails-checkout> only when the operator supplied it or its scripts/install-framework.mjs is already verifiable at a known path. Never guess or invent <devrails-checkout>.

Explain that this route installs or updates the full DevRails runtime command set and creates the skeleton. Then return this external bootstrap command with both placeholders replaced by verified, shell-safe paths:

Read the full file on GitHub · 70 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. 3d ago First seen · 70 lines · 20 tokens per session scan A 02c851dbd243

Subscribe to this mod's changes

start is a skill published in the GitHub repository nicelight/DevRails-26 (22 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 20 tokens to every session and 644 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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