engagement-startup

engagement-startup is a skill for Claude Code from PurpleAILAB/Decepticon. It costs 23 tokens per session (621 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A mandatory startup procedure for red-team engagements. It checks whether an engagement already exists, loads its operational plan, reads the required planning documents, and prepares missing planning work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it at the beginning of every session to resume an engagement or initialise a new one, inspect planning documents, and request regeneration of missing files.
Why use it?
It prevents an agent from acting before it knows the workspace, authorised scope, operating rules, and current engagement state.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Good fit Use it at the beginning of every session to resume an engagement or initialise a new one, inspect planning documents, and request regeneration of missing files.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/purpleailab/decepticon/engagement-startup
About the project

Decepticon is an autonomous red-team agent that coordinates AI agents, security tools, sandboxes, and supporting services for authorized cybersecurity assessments. Security researchers and red teams can run it through its Docker stack, cloud service, command-line interface, or Python SDK, with the catalogue entries representing its available skills.

PurpleAILAB/Decepticon · 5,491 stars · on GitHub · decepticon.red

Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add PurpleAILAB/Decepticon --skill engagement-startup
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/PurpleAILAB/Decepticon

Made for: Claude Code.

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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 621 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00023 $0.00621
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00311
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00124
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00062

Measured 9d ago against content hash 2fa24257177c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

engagement-startup 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 9d 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.

packages/decepticon/decepticon/skills/standard/decepticon/engagement-startup/SKILL.md · 84 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 84 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Engagement Startup Procedure

Execute this procedure on every session start, before any other action.

Step 1: Bind the Active Workspace

The launcher normally injects the workspace root. Use that exact root when it is present in the engagement context; otherwise use /workspace.

Before calling read_file, write_file, edit_file, ls, glob, or grep, call:

load_opplan(workspace_path="<active workspace root>")

This call has two outcomes:

  • Existing plan/opplan.json: objectives and engagement metadata are loaded.
  • Missing plan/opplan.json: the workspace is still bound so planning files can be created. This is the expected new-engagement path, not a fatal error.

Do not probe the filesystem before this call.

Step 2: Inspect Planning State

Read the active workspace's planning documents:

read_file("<active workspace root>/plan/roe.json")
read_file("<active workspace root>/plan/conops.json")
read_file("<active workspace root>/plan/deconfliction.json")

If any document is missing, delegate to Soundwave:

task("soundwave", "Workspace: <active workspace root>. Regenerate the missing planning documents.")

The launcher already selected the engagement. Do not enumerate the shared /workspace root, invent another workspace directory, or ask the operator to select the engagement again.

Step 3A: Resume an Existing OPPLAN

When load_opplan loaded objectives:

  1. Read relevant files under findings/.
  2. Summarize objectives completed / total, current phase, latest evidence, and the next pending objective.
  3. Ask: "Continue from where we left off?"
  4. Resume the execution loop after confirmation.

Step 3B: Build a New OPPLAN

When no OPPLAN exists but the planning documents are present:

  1. Read CONOPS goals and kill-chain dependencies.
  2. Create one bounded objective per sub-agent context window with add_objective.
  3. Present the complete OPPLAN for approval.
  4. Enter the execution loop after confirmation. OPPLAN mutations persist automatically; there is no separate save tool.

Read the full file on GitHub · 84 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. 9d ago First seen · 84 lines · 23 tokens per session scan A 2fa24257177c

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engagement-startup is a skill published in the GitHub repository PurpleAILAB/Decepticon (5,491 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 23 tokens to every session and 621 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 2026-09-03.