Quickstart

Quickstart

This page shows what you see in your first session with dotclaude. It assumes that you finished Install.

What you see at session start

What	When
Status line	After /dotclaude:setup. It shows model, effort, context against the 300K window, the OpenSpec change, and the 5-hour limit.
Output style	Always. The plugin forces the dotclaude style over the simple system prompt. You do not see it.

The status line has this form, with parts joined by ·:

Opus 5.5 xhigh · 84K/300K 28% · add-login 3/7 · 5h 41%

The context part turns yellow at 75% and red at 90% of the window. The 5h part uses the same colors. The OpenSpec part shows the newest change with a tasks.md that is not archived, as id done/total. The status line calls no model, no network, and no CLI.

What happens in a session

A permission rule asks

Claude plans a force push, a git reset --hard, a package publish, or a write to a pull request or an issue. Claude Code asks you first, because the settings profile has an ask rule for it. It denies a read of secrets and a rm -rf of the root or your home. See Guards.

A recursive rm outside the project asks

Claude plans rm -r on a folder outside the project root. The hooks module asks you first and names the target. A target in the project, in /tmp, in /private/tmp, or in $TMPDIR goes on. A target with $ or a backtick counts as outside. You decide. The module never approves a command for you.

A policy ask for a repository of another owner

Claude runs git clone, gh, curl, or wget on a repository of another owner, or fetches its page. The repository has a CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, or AI_POLICY.md. The module asks once per session and per repository, and it shows the policy text, cut at 2,000 characters. See Contributions.

The context limit

Compaction is off. When the session reaches 300K tokens, it stops. Write a note with /dotclaude:handoff before that, then run /clear. No hook tells you to run /clear. See Handoffs.

Next steps

• Guards: see what asks, what denies, and what the sandbox does.
• Handoffs: carry work across /clear.
• OpenSpec: keep the task list in a change.