project-start

A workflow for starting a project folder and filling its brief through an interview. The folder includes places for discovery, decisions, prototypes, and analyses.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when starting a new project or giving an existing chat-based effort a proper home and written brief.
Why use it?
It turns work that is only in chat into an organised project with a clear purpose, constraints, and record of progress.

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/superhero-tech/super-brain/project-start
Any agent
npx skills add superhero-tech/super-brain --skill project-start
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/superhero-tech/super-brain

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 48 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,018 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 $0.00048 $0.01018
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00509
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00204
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00102

Measured 3d ago against content hash 12144f9102be, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

project-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.

.agents/skills/project-start/SKILL.md · 83 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 83 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Project Start

Copying three files takes a second. The value of this skill is the conversation that fills them, because a brief nobody pushed back on says "for all users" and "success is more engagement" and helps no one.

Run the interview in the language the human is using.

How to invoke

  • "New project", "let's start a project on X"
  • Work that has been living in the chat needs a folder
  • /project-start

How it works

1. Name it

Get the project name, and derive a kebab-case slug: contract-tracker, q3-pricing.

Check 3-Projects/ for a folder with that slug. If it exists, this is an update to an existing project, not a new one - say so and stop.

2. Create the folder

Copy 3-Projects/_template/ to 3-Projects/<slug>/, then create the four working subfolders: discovery/, decisions/, prototypes/, analyses/.

Do not fill in the brief yet.

3. Check what the vault already knows

Read 4-Knowledge/index.md and look for pages that bear on this domain. If there are any, name them:

Before we start: the wiki already has [[Page A]] and [[Page B]] on this. Want me to link them from the brief so you are not starting from zero?

This is the payoff for every source ever ingested. On an empty wiki, skip it without comment.

4. Run the brief interview

One question at a time, in this order. Do not paste the whole template and ask them to fill it in.

Section What you are asking for Push back when
In one sentence What it does and for whom It needs an "and" to hold two ideas - that is usually two projects
Who it is for A segment they could go and find tomorrow The answer is "everyone", "users", "SMBs" - ask who the first ten would be
What done looks like An outcome with a number and a date The answer is a direction. "More engagement" is not an outcome; "50 paying by end of Q2, or we stop" is
Context Why this project, why now It reads as a feature description rather than a reason
Constraints What is genuinely non-negotiable: money, deadline, people, tech, legal Everything is listed as a constraint, which means nothing is
Open questions What they do not know yet The list is empty on day one, which means the project has not been thought about

Read the full file on GitHub · 83 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 · 83 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A 12144f9102be

Subscribe to this mod's changes

project-start is a skill published in the GitHub repository superhero-tech/super-brain (110 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 1,018 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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