cold-start

cold-start is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from yogsoth-ai/de-anthropocentric-research-engine. It costs 54 tokens per session (933 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A starting process for someone who has no clear research topic or direction. It moves from understanding the person’s goals and situation to exploring options, narrowing the field, and defining a research focus.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to explore research areas, identify obstacles, break goals into smaller parts, and create a concise research brief.
Why use it?
It gives structure to an otherwise open-ended search and helps turn a vague wish to do research into a workable direction.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to explore research areas, identify obstacles, break goals into smaller parts, and create a concise research brief.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/yogsoth-ai/de-anthropocentric-research-engine/cold-start
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add yogsoth-ai/de-anthropocentric-research-engine --skill cold-start
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/yogsoth-ai/de-anthropocentric-research-engine

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 54 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 933 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Prompt Injection · line 74
    Hidden instructions were detected in comments or invisible text. These could contain malicious directives. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Audit all comments and invisible characters. Remove any instructions that direct the agent to perform unauthorized actions. Use plain, reviewable content.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00054 $0.00933
Opus 5 $0.00027 $0.00466
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00187
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00093

Measured 9d ago against content hash 87e4a79a4f20, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cold-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 9d 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/cold-start/SKILL.md · 90 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 90 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Cold Start Strategy

The user knows nothing — they want to publish at a top venue but have no idea what to research.

Questioning Protocol

All SOPs in this strategy follow these rules:

  • One question at a time — never overwhelm with multiple questions
  • Prefer multiple choice when possible — easier to answer
  • Always allow "unsure" / "TBD" as legitimate answers
  • Always ask WHY — not just "what do you want" but "why do you want it"
  • After user answers: confirm understanding before continuing
  • If user's answer reveals new information: immediately follow up
  • If user declines to answer (privacy): accept, note that downstream work becomes broader/more iterative

Available Tactics

Tactic Purpose
actor-profiling Understand who the user is
landscape-reconnaissance Broad, shallow field exploration
direction-narrowing Focus within chosen field(s)
obstacle-analysis Identify and mitigate barriers
goal-decomposition KAOS-style AND/OR goal structuring
north-star-synthesis Converge into North Star + ResearchBrief

Default Flow (reference only)

actor-profiling → landscape-reconnaissance → direction-narrowing
→ obstacle-analysis → goal-decomposition → north-star-synthesis

This is a reference, not a mandate. You decide the actual execution path.

Iteration Points

  • From obstacle-analysis: may return to landscape-reconnaissance, direction-narrowing, or obstacle-analysis itself
  • From goal-decomposition: may return to landscape-reconnaissance, direction-narrowing, obstacle-analysis, or goal-decomposition itself

How to Use This Strategy

You are the general. This strategy gives you:

  1. A default flow as starting reference
  2. Available tactics with their purposes
  3. Iteration points where backtracking makes sense

What you decide:

  • Whether to execute a tactic fully or partially
  • Whether to skip a tactic entirely
  • Whether to invoke individual SOPs directly (bypassing tactic framing)
  • When to iterate and where to return to
  • When enough information exists to move forward

Read the full file on GitHub · 90 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. 9d ago First seen · 90 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A 87e4a79a4f20

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cold-start is a skill published in the GitHub repository yogsoth-ai/de-anthropocentric-research-engine (464 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 933 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 2026-09-03.

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