dev-starter-prompts

dev-starter-prompts is a skill for Claude Code from volomydyr/design-engineer-plugin. It costs 37 tokens per session (1,809 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A prompt-writing aid for starting development in a new or existing project with an AI coding tool. It uses available planning documents to create focused first requests.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check which planning files are ready, identify the coding tool, and produce three to five customized kick-start prompts.
Why use it?
It reduces the uncertainty of opening an unfamiliar project or blank folder and wondering what to ask the coding tool first.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter; mentions CLAUDE.md; names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the design-engineer plugin — 57 skills, 11 commands, 10 agents, 6 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to check which planning files are ready, identify the coding tool, and produce three to five customized kick-start prompts.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/volomydyr/design-engineer-plugin/dev-starter-prompts
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.

Any agent
npx skills add volomydyr/design-engineer-plugin --skill dev-starter-prompts
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/volomydyr/design-engineer-plugin

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install design-engineer, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 57 skills, 11 commands, 10 agents, 6 hooks.

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README.md
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Per session 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,809 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00037 $0.01809
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00905
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00362
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00181

Measured 8d ago against content hash a8b51c81dc31, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dev-starter-prompts 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 8d 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/dev-starter-prompts/SKILL.md · 169 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 169 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Kick-Start Prompt Generation

Why This Matters

When you open a new project in an IDE, you are looking at a blank folder. If you are new to programming, it is hard to understand how to begin. Kick-start prompts are starting messages you send to your AI coding tool to set everything up.

The rule of thumb: do not overcomplicate them. Avoid deep technical details or code snippets. These prompts should be high-level references that point to your context documents – the files from your planning activities placed into the project folder.

Interaction Method

If AskUserQuestion is available, use it for all prompts below.

If not, present each question as a numbered list and wait for a reply before proceeding. For multiSelect questions, accept comma-separated numbers (e.g. 1, 3). Never skip or auto-answer without explicit user consent.


Step 0: Before starting

  1. Announce your execution plan: Before doing anything, state what you will do in this activity: "Here's what I'm going to do: 1) check which planning documents you have ready, 2) determine which AI coding tool you'll use, 3) generate 3–5 focused kick-start prompts customized to your project, 4) review and customize them with you." This is a commitment device – harder to skip steps you just announced.

  2. Conditional teaching: Ask the user if they are familiar with kick-start prompts and how they work. If yes, give a one-sentence refresher. If no, explain it in simple terms: these are the first messages you send to your AI coding tool to set up the project – high-level instructions that point to your context documents, not deep technical commands.

    Required: ALWAYS ask the question, ALWAYS give the refresher when the user says yes. Never skip this step because the user "is a designer" or "already demonstrated familiarity earlier." Users want a memory refresh on every activity, including ones they know. Phrases like "I'll skip the explainer (you're a designer)" are forbidden — they signal the model has decided ON BEHALF OF the user that a refresher isn't needed. The user, not the model, decides what's redundant. The refresher takes one sentence; the cost is trivial; the value to a tired user mid-session is high.

Read the full file on GitHub · 169 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 8d ago First seen · 169 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A a8b51c81dc31

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dev-starter-prompts is a skill published in the GitHub repository volomydyr/design-engineer-plugin (19 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 1,809 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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