boot

boot is a skill for Claude Code from zkysar1/Claude-Mind. It costs 86 tokens per session (9,492 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An entry workflow for an autonomous coding agent: it reports current state, loads context, and hands control to the ongoing aspirations loop.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to start or recover autonomous mode, verify that the agent is running, load its context, and begin goal selection and execution.
Why use it?
It prevents autonomous work from starting in the wrong session state and restores the context needed to continue work after a restart.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

Not installable on its own: it runs a file from its repository that does not travel with it. Clone the repository, or install whatever ships that file. The line is Run: bash core/scripts/init-mind.sh $MIND_AGENT.

Install

Getting it into your agent

There is no command for this one: it runs only inside a plugin, and the catalogue could not identify which plugin ships it. The source is linked below.

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 86 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 9,492 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 5.1 $0.00086 $0.09492
Opus 5 $0.00043 $0.04746
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.01898
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00949

Measured 6d ago against content hash 97d957306569, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

boot 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 6d 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/skills/boot/SKILL.md · 841 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 841 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/boot — Session Entry Point & Status Report

Read core/config/status-output.md for status line formats (session boundary, goal start, etc.).

The single entry point for each session. Resolves pending hypotheses (catch-up), generates a comprehensive status report, then hands off to /aspirations loop for perpetual execution. Auto-invoked by /start or during inline restart. Requires RUNNING agent-state.

Key design: Boot calls /review-hypotheses --resolve (detect outcomes) but does NOT trigger learning. Learning happens downstream when /aspirations loop picks up goals that call /review-hypotheses --learn.

Step 0: Load ConventionsBash: load-conventions.sh with each name from the conventions: front matter. Read only the paths returned (files not yet in context). If output is empty, all conventions already loaded — proceed to next step.

Phase -3: Agent State Gate Check

Bash: session-state-get.sh → read output.

IF output is "UNINITIALIZED" → ABORT: "Agent not initialized. User must run /start." IF output is "IDLE" → ABORT: "Agent is stopped. User must run /start to resume." IF output is "RUNNING" → PROCEED.

This gate means boot can ONLY run when /start has set agent-state to RUNNING.

Phase -2.5: Crash Recovery Detection

Check for crash marker left by StopFailure hook (context exhaustion in previous session):

IF file exists agents/<agent>/session/crash-marker:
  Read content (format: "<timestamp> context_exhaustion sid=<session-id>")
  Log: "⚠ Previous session ended abnormally — context exhaustion detected"
  Log the crash-marker content for diagnostics
  Delete agents/<agent>/session/crash-marker

Phase -2: State Initialization (First Boot)

Run the deterministic init scripts. They create world/ (collective state), / (per-agent state), and meta/ (meta-strategies) from core/config/ initial_state: sections. Idempotent — each exits immediately if its .initialized marker already exists.

Run: bash core/scripts/init-mind.sh $MIND_AGENT
IF exit code != 0: ABORT with error message
IF output contains "First boot": log "First boot detected — agent is a blank slate"

Read the full file on GitHub · 841 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. 6d ago First seen · 841 lines · 86 tokens per session scan A 97d957306569

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boot is a skill published in the GitHub repository zkysar1/Claude-Mind (5 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 86 tokens to every session and 9,492 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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