Coldstart
A local operating-discipline layer for Claude Code with focused routing, durable project context, and guidance calibrated to you.
- Claude Code
- Workflow
- AI tooling
- Personalization
- Developer tools
Claude Code can be powerful and still become inconsistent across long or repeated work. Coldstart adds a local discipline layer that routes each task to focused guidance, preserves project context between sessions, and adapts the workflow to the person using it.
What's inside
- Fourteen
op-*routing skills, plus a lifecycle dispatcher, that load focused guidance when a task calls for it. - 84 chapters across ten families, covering workflow, prompting, recovery, signaling, tools, persistence, and related disciplines.
- A personal profile that calibrates how the agent explains, questions, and approaches work.
- Per-project integration for the hooks, commands, skills, and agent definitions used by projects you explicitly initialize.
How it works
Coldstart installs into its own dedicated root rather than the Claude Code configuration directory. You then initialize the projects where you want it active. Its hooks and guidance are registered per project, keeping the installed machinery separate from the project being served.
The runtime uses Bash and Python 3.12+ with the standard library. It requires no product package install, datastore, or daemon.
Why it's different
Coldstart is a router, not a large instruction dump. Instead of loading an entire manual into every session, it selects the relevant discipline when the task matches. The result is a structured working layer around Claude Code without turning every project instruction file into a handbook.
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