start

start is a skill for Claude Code from onurpolat05/ALBA. It costs 109 tokens per session (382 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A session-opening command that reads an agent dashboard, task list, and any resumable daily log, then shows the day's priorities. It is designed for the beginning of a work session.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to start the day, resume a previous session, review top priorities, and see active or completed task counts when available.
Why use it?
It removes the need to open several planning files and reconstruct what to work on next.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md.

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/onurpolat05/alba/start
Any agent
npx skills add onurpolat05/ALBA --skill start
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/onurpolat05/ALBA

Made for: Claude Code.

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
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Your own site
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Per session 109 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 382 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 5.1 $0.00109 $0.00382
Opus 5 $0.00055 $0.00191
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.00076
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00038

Measured 6d ago against content hash 079e3b7cb164, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, 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 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.

.claude/skills/start/SKILL.md · 42 lines

What it actually says

/start - Session Start

Load context and show today's focus. Keep output under 10 lines.

Steps

  1. Read dashboard (silent): memory/state/dashboard.md
  2. Read todo (silent): memory/state/todo.md
  3. Check for resume: Look for memory/daily/YYYY-MM-DD.md (today's date)

Output Format

Session: YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM
[If resuming: "Resuming - previous session logged"]

Priorities:
- [TOP priority from dashboard - most urgent/important item]
- [Secondary priority]
- [Next actionable step]

Tasks: X active | Y completed today

Rules

  • Maximum 10 lines of output
  • If dashboard doesn't exist yet, say: "No dashboard found. Run /setup first or create memory/state/dashboard.md"
  • If todo doesn't exist, skip task count
  • Don't read errors.md or learnings.md at start (save context window)
  • Don't ask questions - this is a pure read-and-display command
  • Use the user's language preference from CLAUDE.md (default: follow dashboard language)
  • Show priorities by importance, not by file order
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. 6d ago First seen · 42 lines · 109 tokens per session scan A 079e3b7cb164

Subscribe to this mod's changes

start is a skill published in the GitHub repository onurpolat05/ALBA (20 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 109 tokens to every session and 382 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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