session-start

session-start is a skill for Claude Code from webbertakken/agent-skills. It costs 18 tokens per session (68 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A session-start routine for beginning work on a software project. It starts the team, runs development servers, and reads PROMPT.md when that file exists.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when opening or resuming a coding session that needs project instructions, team setup, and local servers.
Why use it?
It gathers the project’s starting context and gets common development services running before work begins.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: $ARGUMENTS substitution.

Good fit Use it when opening or resuming a coding session that needs project instructions, team setup, and local servers.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/webbertakken/agent-skills/session-start
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 webbertakken/agent-skills --skill session-start
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/webbertakken/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 18 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 68 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 $0.00018 $0.00068
Opus 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00027
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00004 $0.00014
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00007

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 4e917183dd1f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

session-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 1mo 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/session-start/SKILL.md · 15 lines

What it actually says

Session start

Bootstrap a working session.

$ARGUMENTS

  1. Start your team
  2. Run the dev servers
  3. Read PROMPT.md (if any) and summarise the restored context
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. 1mo ago First seen · 15 lines · 18 tokens per session scan A 4e917183dd1f

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session-start is a skill published in the GitHub repository webbertakken/agent-skills (3 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 18 tokens to every session and 68 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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