task-start

A task-start guide for the FSL repository, including its Rust code and related documents. It creates a short, verified task record in tasks/active.md before substantial work begins.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before major implementation, debugging, review, or design work in FSL to inspect the repository state, define the task, record verification commands, and identify the next action.
Why use it?
It makes the requested outcome, boundaries, relevant evidence, tests, and remaining uncertainty explicit. This helps work stay resumable and reduces missed dependencies.

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/ymm-oss/fsl/task-start
Any agent
npx skills add ymm-oss/fsl --skill task-start
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ymm-oss/fsl

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 25 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 265 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 $0.00025 $0.00265
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00133
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00053
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00026

Measured 2d ago against content hash eda8878bbbda, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

task-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 2d 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/task-start/SKILL.md · 22 lines

What it actually says

Start an FSL task

Use this skill before substantial implementation, debugging, review, or design work.

  1. Inspect the current branch and git status --short.
  2. Restate the requested outcome as an observable goal and list explicit non-goals.
  3. Identify the authority surface: relevant contracts, design documents, tests, native Rust paths, and user constraints.
  4. Inspect only the narrow evidence needed to establish the current state. Delegate broad, read-heavy exploration to evidence_explorer when it reduces the main context.
  5. Create or replace tasks/active.md from tasks/active.template.md.
  6. Record invariants, evidence, scope, sibling paths, verification commands, remaining uncertainty, the discovered-follow-up ledger, and one concrete next action. For migration or parity work, inventory behavior-bearing AST/enum variants; top-level corpus counts are not semantic completeness.
  7. Remove stale or speculative content from a previous task.
  8. Stop before implementation so the task packet can be checked independently.

Keep the packet concise. Do not paste raw logs, full search results, secrets, or machine-specific absolute paths.

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 2d ago First seen · 22 lines · 25 tokens per session scan A eda8878bbbda

Subscribe to this mod's changes

task-start is a skill published in the GitHub repository ymm-oss/fsl (21 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 265 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 2026-08-30.

Related

Other skills, from other repositories

propagate

Generate tests from Allium specifications. Use when the user wants to propagate tests, generate test files from a spec, write tests for a specification, create property-based tests, produce state machine tests, check test coverage against spec obligations, or understand what tests a specification requires.

juxt/allium · 57 tokens

allium

Give your AI agents something more useful than a prompt. Velocity through clarity.

juxt/allium · 18 tokens

elicit

Run a structured discovery session to build an Allium specification through conversation. Use when the user wants to create a new spec from scratch, elicit or gather requirements, capture domain behaviour, specify a feature or system, define what a system should do, or is describing functionality and needs help…

juxt/allium · 66 tokens

tend

Tend the Allium garden. Use when the user wants to write, edit, update, add to, improve, clarify, refine, restructure, fix or migrate Allium specs. Covers adding entities, rules, triggers, surfaces and contracts, fixing syntax or validation errors, renaming or refactoring within specs, migrating specs to a new…

juxt/allium · 90 tokens

weed

Weed the Allium garden. Find where Allium specifications and implementation code have diverged, and help resolve the divergences. Use when the user wants to check spec-code alignment, compare specs against implementation, audit for spec drift or violations, sync specs with code or code with specs, or verify whether…

juxt/allium · 71 tokens

witness

Independently witness that an Allium loop's convergence claim is true and was reached honestly. Use when the user wants to verify a loop's self-report, confirm tests really pass and no generated test was weakened, produce a convergence certificate or witness record, gate CI on a trustworthy signal, or check that an…

juxt/allium · 75 tokens