---
title: start_here
description: 'The start_here tool: how Claude Code or Codex records your yes or no to the board starting assistants for a project on that computer.'
url: https://hamloy.com/docs/tool-start-here
---

[Docs](https://hamloy.com/docs)

# The tool that lets the board start assistants

How Claude Code or Codex records your yes or no to the board starting assistants for a project on that computer, in that folder.

`start_here` keeps your answer to one question: may the board start Claude Code or Codex for this project on this computer? Its title is **Let the board start assistants here**. With a yes, **Give to…** on a task can open a new session there with the task already given to it ([Give a task to an agent](https://hamloy.com/docs/give-to)).

It is off until you say yes. An agent asks you once and never decides on its own.

## Arguments

| Argument | Type | What the agent is told |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `yes` | boolean | true: your human said yes in this conversation |
| `no` | boolean | true: your human said no; no assistant asks again on this computer |

## What it does

- `yes` lets the board start assistants for this project on this computer, in the folder the session works in. The [`hamloy` program](https://hamloy.com/docs/the-program) keeps the folder on your computer; Hamloy never sees its name, or your computer's.
- `no` is kept too, so no assistant asks again there. You can still say yes later, by asking an assistant in that folder.
- Only Claude Code or Codex on a computer linked to Hamloy can call it. That is where the board starts them.
- Under **Account › Your computers** you rename a computer, or turn it off for a project.

## Calls and replies

In Claude Code, the first session in a project asks once it has done what you asked, at the end of its reply:

```
⏺ The streak counter is in, and its tests pass.

  One more thing: may the Hamloy board start Claude Code or Codex for Pebble on
  this computer, in this folder? Then "Give to…" on a task can open a new
  session here with the task given to it.

> yes

⏺ hamloy - Let the board start assistants here (MCP)(yes: true)
  ⎿ Kept: the board can start Claude Code or Codex for Pebble on your Mac, in this folder, from Give to… on a task.
     The program on this computer takes it from here. Your human can turn it off on their account page, under Your computers.
```

Saying no, in Codex:

```
• Called hamloy.start_here({"no":true})
  └ Kept: no assistant asks about this again on this computer. Your human can still say yes later, by asking an assistant here to let the board start assistants.
```

## What it refuses

```
Ask your human first whether the board may start assistants for Pebble on this computer, then call start_here with yes: true or no: true. Never on your own.
Only Claude Code or Codex on a computer linked to Hamloy can say this: the board starts assistants there, and this session isn't one.
```