start-cost SKILL.md skillA
start-cost from xsyetopz/dotclaude is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add xsyetopz/dotclaude/start-cost@git:20261016.3621f4bPins git:20261016.3621f4b in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- xsyetopz/dotclaude
- Path
plugins/claudetto-sessions/skills/start-cost/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20261016.3621f4b, committed Oct 16, 2026
- Size
- 2,224 bytes
- Repository stars
- 3
- License
- MIT
Measures what a Claude Code session sends at its start, by source, and compares a start with a plugin against a start without it. Use when asked what a plugin, skill list, or MCP server costs at the start of a session, not for usage over time.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
<task> Show the user where the start of a session spends its context. Each listed skill, agent, plugin, and MCP tool adds a fixed cost to every session. The figures are measurements. Do not state the cause of a usage limit, because no source gives one. </task> <procedure> The bin `claudetto-start` reads a transcript (a `.jsonl` file under `~/.claude/projects/`). It changes no file. 1. Report one session. With no argument, it reads the newest transcript of the current folder: ```bash claudetto-start claudetto-start /path/to/session.jsonl ``` The section `Start by source` lists the characters of each source: the built-in set, each plugin (by the name prefix of its skills, agents, and tools), each MCP server, `CLAUDE.md` and memory, the output style, and the system prompt. The first line gives the tokens of the first request. 2. Compare a start with a plugin and a start without it. The transcript of a session shows only the plugins that were on, so the user must start two sessions. Ask the user for the two transcript paths, or tell the user to start one session with the plugin and one without it, with the same folder and the same first prompt. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add xsyetopz/dotclaude/start-cost@sha256:d2e3dd3caffa302dThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261016.3621f4b, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Oct 16, 2026.
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (2224 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
xsyetopz/dotclaude · 3 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-19 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_vnuwvatlghx6i2hd GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=xsyetopz/dotclaude/start-cost GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/d2e3dd3caffa302d9641273bee6aef60d4d6d69329565c8a7ce8c0785e14be74
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.
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