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Ship faster. Ship better. Ship with The Agentic Startup.

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🤖 What is The Agentic Startup?

The Agentic Startup is a spec-driven development framework for Claude Code that transforms how you build software. Think of it as having instant access to expert developers, architects, and engineers - all working together in parallel to turn your ideas into shipped code.

We follow Spec-Driven Development, where comprehensive specifications are created before coding begins, ensuring clarity and reducing rework.

The workflow:

1. 📋 Specify - Turn ideas into comprehensive specification documents (requirements, design, and implementation plan)
2. ⚡ Implement - Execute plans phase-by-phase with parallel agent coordination
3. 📚 Document - Automatically capture patterns and knowledge as you build
4. 🔄 Refactor - Improve code quality while preserving behavior

The framework leverages Claude Code's plugin system to provide workflow commands, autonomous skills, specialized agents, and quality templates - all working together like a high-velocity startup team.

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[!NOTE] The Agentic Startup v2.0 is a complete rewrite for the Claude Code marketplace plugin system. The previous version (v1.x) used a Go-based bash script installer. See MIGRATION.md if upgrading.

What's New in 2.0

✨ Native Claude Code Integration

• Distributed as official Claude Code marketplace plugins
• Two plugins: start (workflows) + team (agents)
• Seamless installation via Claude Code plugin system
• Zero manual configuration required

🤖 Autonomous Skills System

• Model-invoked skills that activate based on natural language
• Progressive disclosure for optimal token efficiency
• Skills for documentation, agent delegation, and more

👥 Specialized Agent Team

• 11 agent roles across 6 professional categories
• 39+ activity-based specializations
• Install optionally via team@the-startup plugin

🎯 Streamlined Architecture

• Commands orchestrate high-level workflows
• Skills provide autonomous capabilities
• Agents deliver specialized expertise
• Rules define operational patterns

Migrating from 1.x

📌 Upgrading from the bash script installer (pre-2.0)? See the complete migration guide for step-by-step instructions.

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🚀 Quick Start

Installation

Requirements: Claude Code v2.0+ with marketplace support

# Add The Agentic Startup marketplace
/plugin marketplace add rsmdt/the-startup

# Install the Start plugin (core workflows)
/plugin install start@the-startup

# (Optional) Install the Team plugin (specialized agents)
/plugin install team@the-startup

Alternatively, browse and install interactively via /plugin

Initialize Your Environment

Configure output style and statusline (one-time setup):

/start:init

This sets up:

• The Startup output style (high-energy parallel execution)
• Git-aware statusline
• Interactive preferences

Your First Workflow

1. Create a specification:

/start:specify Add user authentication with OAuth support

Creates docs/specs/001-user-authentication/ with product-requirements.md, solution-design.md, and implementation-plan.md documents.

2. Execute the implementation:

/start:implement 001

Runs phase-by-phase with parallel agents, validation gates, and progress tracking.

3. Analyze patterns:

/start:analyze security patterns in authentication

Discovers and documents patterns in docs/patterns/, docs/domain/, docs/interfaces/

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🎯 Claude Code Features Explained

The Agentic Startup leverages Claude Code's powerful extensibility features:

🔌 Plugins (Marketplace)

What: Distributable packages of commands, skills, agents, and rules

How we use it:

• start - Workflow orchestration plugin
• team - Specialized agent library

Install:

/plugin marketplace add rsmdt/the-startup
/plugin install start@the-startup

⚡ Commands (User-Invoked)

What: Slash commands you explicitly run (e.g., /start:specify)

How we use it:

• 5 workflow commands for specification, implementation, analysis, refactoring, initialization
• Commands orchestrate multi-step processes
• User decides when to invoke

Example: /start:specify Add real-time notifications