An onboarding guide for setting up a personal working profile in the ai-engineering-workspace kit. The profile records your role, experience, workflow, technology stack, and tools in generated files.

Use it when joining the workspace or setting up your persona for the first time. It guides you to run the appropriate macOS/Linux or Windows command and generate the profile files.

It gives new workspace users a defined starting point instead of making them assemble configuration by hand. The wizard asks a few questions and applies the kit's shared working rules.

start — Skill for Claude Code by yuri-semenenko: An onboarding guide for setting up a personal working…

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/yuri-semenenko/ai-engineering-workspace/start

Any agent

npx skills add yuri-semenenko/ai-engineering-workspace --skill start

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/yuri-semenenko/ai-engineering-workspace

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md

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Per session 90 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 668 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00090	$0.00668
Opus 5	$0.00045	$0.00334
Sonnet 5	$0.00018	$0.00134
Haiku 4.5	$0.00009	$0.00067

Measured 5d ago against content hash 33f4e9137dd9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 5d 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.

claude-code/.claude/skills/start/SKILL.md · 63 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 63 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Start

The onboarding entrypoint for the ai-engineering-workspace kit. This does not reimplement anything: it points you at the one wizard that generates your persona, scripts/create-persona.sh (or .ps1 on Windows).

What the persona wizard does

It stitches your identity header onto the fixed methodology canon and writes three gitignored files under persona/:

persona.md — your full persona
CLAUDE.md — the condensed version for ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md
recommended-skills.md — which shipped skills to reach for first

It asks only about the identity header — discipline, seniority, workflow, then role, stack, and tooling. The methodology canon (simplicity ladder, RFC/ADR format, PR-review tiers, verification, git rules) is fixed and identical for everyone. Press Enter to accept each default; staff + fullstack + architecture-focused reproduces the shipped baseline.

Steps

Ask which shell the user is on if it is not already obvious: a POSIX shell (macOS/Linux) or PowerShell (Windows). Do not assume.
Give the exact command for that shell (below), and let the user run it in their own terminal so the interactive prompts work.
Point at the next step: once the persona files exist, run the per-tool installer(s) — see the top-level README. The Claude installer also runs the wizard automatically on first install if it was skipped.

macOS / Linux (POSIX shell)

scripts/create-persona.sh             # interactive; Enter accepts each default
scripts/create-persona.sh --defaults  # accept everything, no prompts

Windows (PowerShell)

powershell -NoProfile -File .\scripts\create-persona.ps1
powershell -NoProfile -File .\scripts\create-persona.ps1 -Defaults

Rules

Do not run the wizard or edit files yourself unless the user explicitly asks. It is interactive and writes the user's personal files; hand over the command and let them drive.
Do not re-ask the wizard's questions here. The wizard owns that flow; this skill only explains it and provides the command.
If the user asks what an axis means, answer briefly — discipline shapes the background framing and recommended skills; seniority shapes how the assistant treats them; workflow foregrounds skills in the recommended-skills view — and point to persona/README.md for the full picture.

Read the full file on GitHub · 63 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.

5d ago First seen · 63 lines · 90 tokens per session scan A 33f4e9137dd9

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start is a skill published in the GitHub repository yuri-semenenko/ai-engineering-workspace (1 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 90 tokens to every session and 668 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-08-31.

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