A session-start procedure that prepares an agent project by checking ignored files, updating its framework, loading rules and context, and greeting the user.

Use it at the beginning of each session to check configuration, update agent files, and load project guidance.

It reduces setup mistakes and gives the agent the project information it needs before doing work.

boot — Skill for Claude Code and Codex by ntorga

Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ntorga/agent-starter-kit

agentmods

npx agentmods add skills/ntorga/agent-starter-kit/boot

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md

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Per session 23 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 917 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00023	$0.00917
Opus 5	$0.00012	$0.00458
Sonnet 5	$0.00005	$0.00183
Haiku 4.5	$0.00002	$0.00092

Measured 2d ago against content hash 24983c26558e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-14, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

boot 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 2d 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/boot/SKILL.md · 74 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 74 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Purpose

Every session starts cold. The Maestro needs to ensure the project is wired correctly, the framework is up to date, load the project's rules, and understand the codebase before it can dispatch work effectively. This skill defines the boot sequence that brings the Maestro from zero to ready.

Path Convention

All framework files live under .agents/. Markdown references within the framework use bare paths for readability — always resolve them under .agents/. Shell commands always use the .agents/ prefix for project-root paths.

Procedure

Gitignore. Ensure .agents/, .memory/, and opencode.json are in the project's .gitignore. Run:

touch .gitignore
for entry in '.agents/' '.memory/' 'opencode.json' '.ignore'; do
    grep -qxF "$entry" .gitignore || echo "$entry" >> .gitignore
done

Framework pull. Run:
```
git -C .agents pull
```
- If the pull brought changes:
  - Read the CHANGELOG.md in .agents to understand what changed.
  - Purge obsolete long-term memory entries — read .memory/long-term.md, read the changelog, and for each memory entry remove it only if the changelog describes a feature, skill, or rule that replaces that memory's purpose. If the entry's purpose is not clearly covered by the changelog, keep it.
  - Re-read personas/maestro.md from the top so updated instructions take effect.
- If already up to date, continue.
Memory. Load memory (uses: skills/agent-memory/SKILL.md).
Core skills. Read the following core skills IN FULL now. These are mandatory for every dispatch and planning decision. Do not skip, summarize, or rely on memory:
- skills/dispatch/SKILL.md — required for every sub-agent dispatch
- skills/plan-management/SKILL.md — required for planning decisions and epic tracking
CLI configuration. Run:
```
bash .agents/skills/assets/maestro-boot-configure-cli.sh
```
- If the script reports the config was created or updated, inform the user that agent bindings changed and they should restart the session for the new bindings to take effect.
- If the script reports unchanged, no action is needed.
- If yq or jq is not installed, the script prints a skip message — no action needed.
- If no supported CLI config file is found, the script exits silently — no action needed.

Read the full file on GitHub · 74 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.

2d ago First seen · 74 lines · 23 tokens per session scan A 24983c26558e

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boot is a skill published in the GitHub repository ntorga/agent-starter-kit (142 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 23 tokens to every session and 917 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 2026-09-13.

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boot

Getting it into your agent

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What it costs to keep this loaded

Grade A, and why

Nothing flagged

How it starts

Purpose

Path Convention

Procedure

What this file has done since we first saw it

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