kickoff

kickoff is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from seanrreid/RAD_framework. It costs 58 tokens per session (854 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A session-start checklist for RAD projects that reads project instructions, checks Git status, reviews active plans, and asks what to work on.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it at the start of a work session to read CLAUDE.md, check whether work is on the protected default branch, report plan status, and optionally triage open issues.
Why use it?
It gives the agent the project context and exposes branch, uncommitted-change, or unfinished-plan issues before coding 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/seanrreid/rad_framework/kickoff
Any agent
npx skills add seanrreid/RAD_framework --skill kickoff
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/seanrreid/RAD_framework

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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.

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README.md
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Per session 58 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 854 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 $0.00058 $0.00854
Opus 5 $0.00029 $0.00427
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00171
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00085

Measured 4d ago against content hash 3ebce61efd9a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

kickoff 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 4d 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/kickoff/SKILL.md · 105 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 105 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Session Kickoff

Orient quickly at the start of a session: load project context, check git state, surface what needs attention, and pick a focus. Keep the briefing under ~400 words.

Steps

1. Load project context

Read CLAUDE.md — project description, stack, conventions, role assignments, and the Agent Scope Map. This is the contract for the session.

2. Check git state

git branch --show-current
git status --short
git log --oneline @{u}.. 2>/dev/null || true

Report the current branch, any uncommitted changes, and how far ahead/behind the remote you are.

Branch guard. Resolve the default branch and warn if you're on it — RAD work happens on rad/ branches, never directly on the protected default branch:

BASE=$(scripts/get-default-branch.sh)

⚠️ You're on {BASE}. RAD work belongs on a rad/[feature] branch.

  • New work: /rad-plan "<feature>" cuts the branch for you.
  • Resuming: git fetch && git checkout rad/<feature>.

Stop the briefing on this warning until it's resolved.

3. Report active plans

scripts/rad-status.sh

Group what it returns by status and surface the actionable ones first:

  • pending-reviewAwaiting architect approval — the architect runs /rad-approve <feature>.
  • approvedReady to execute/rad-deliver .agents/plans/<feature>.md.
  • in-progressDelivery underway — note the rad/ branch.

Skip silently if there are no plans.

Auto-clear count. The severity-routed approval gate records each policy auto-clear as an approved event with recordedBy === 'policy' in the per-feature audit logs. Count them across the feature event logs and surface one line — Auto-cleared: N changes since last session — in the report below. Skip silently if the count is zero or no event logs exist.

jq -r 'select(.type=="approved" and .recordedBy=="policy")' \
  .agents/state/*/events.jsonl 2>/dev/null | jq -s 'length'

4. (Optional) Triage open issues

Read the full file on GitHub · 105 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. 4d ago First seen · 105 lines · 58 tokens per session scan A 3ebce61efd9a

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kickoff is a skill published in the GitHub repository seanrreid/RAD_framework (5 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 58 tokens to every session and 854 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-31.

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