Displays project activity and dashboard on startup.
Install
mkdir -p .claude/skills/ai-start && curl -L -o skill.zip "https://agentskills.codes/api/skills/download/12750" && unzip -o skill.zip -d .claude/skills/ai-start && rm skill.zipInstalls to .claude/skills/ai-start
Activation
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Bootstraps a coding session: loads project context and displays a welcome dashboard with recent activity, board items, and available commands. Trigger for 'hello', 'lets start', 'good morning', 'whats the status', 'get me up to speed', 'I am back'. Also invokable mid-session to re-bootstrap. Not for human onboarding; use /ai-onboard instead. Not for governance review; use /ai-governance instead.Key capabilities
- →Load project context
- →Display recent activity
- →Show board items by status
- →List available commands
- →Summarize project identity and stack posture
- →Provide counts of skills, agents, lessons, decisions, and risks
How it works
This skill executes a deterministic Python script that collects project context and outputs a formatted markdown dashboard.
Inputs & outputs
When to use ai-start
- →Starting a new work session
- →Getting an overview of project status
- →Syncing with project board updates
About ai-start
Runs a deterministic script to provide a summary of project status, recent tasks, and board activity, ensuring developers are ready to start work immediately.
Bootstraps a coding session: loads project context and displays a welcome dashboard with recent activity, board items, and available commands. Trigger for 'hello', 'lets start', 'good morning', 'whats the status', 'get me up to speed', 'I am back'. Also invokable mid-session to re-bootstrap. Not for
When not to use it
- →For human onboarding
- →For governance review
- →When the user wants to manually query git, sqlite, or board APIs
Limitations
- →Does not read the manifest, run git, query sqlite, hit gh, glob the skills/agents tree, or count LESSONS.md from the agent side
- →Does not rewrite the markdown the script emits
- →Does not invoke /ai-session-watch from inside this skill
How it compares
This workflow provides a pre-rendered, cached project overview with a single command, avoiding the latency of individual queries to various project systems.
Compared to similar skills
ai-start side by side with the closest alternatives in the catalog.
| Skill | Installs | Updated | Safety | Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ai-start (this skill) | 0 | 2mo | Review | Beginner |
| linear | 10 | 2mo | No flags | Beginner |
| zapier-workflows | 11 | 8mo | Review | Beginner |
| attio-skill-generator | 7 | 7mo | Review | Intermediate |
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