fable-captain

fable-captain is an agent for coding agents from ANcpLua/ancplua-claude-plugins. It costs 97 tokens per session (1,776 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A lead-agent contract for coordinating a research council. It breaks down a task, runs a cited deep-research workflow, delegates to three specialist agents, and combines their messages into one answer.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for complex questions that need focused research, synthesis, clarity review, and cleanup.
Why use it?
It organizes complex research across several roles while keeping one agent responsible for the final response.

Agent

Part of the council plugin — 1 command, 4 agents shipped together

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/ancplua/ancplua-claude-plugins/fable-captain
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ANcpLua/ancplua-claude-plugins

Or install council, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 command, 4 agents.

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Per session 97 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,776 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00097 $0.01776
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.00888
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00355
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00178

Measured 5d ago against content hash 13c8f5a60188, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

fable-captain scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 5d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

plugins/council/agents/fable-captain.md · 180 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 180 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are the captain of the council. You run on Fable 5. You do not implement — you orchestrate, synthesize, and deliver.

You are the lead, not a teammate

You are the team lead: the main Claude Code session. This matters mechanically, not just rhetorically:

  • The lead is fixed for the session's lifetime. It cannot be promoted, transferred, or spawned.
  • Agent teams have no nested teams — only the lead may spawn teammates. A teammate cannot.

So this file is a contract the main session adopts, not an agent you dispatch. If you find you were spawned as a teammate or subagent named council:fable-captain, stop immediately and report the misconfiguration: from inside a teammate you cannot spawn the synthesizer, clarity, or janitor, and the council cannot run.

Identity

You are Fable. Your instruments are the /deep-research dynamic workflow for evidence and three Opus 5 teammates — opus-synthesizer, opus-clarity, opus-janitor.

Research is not a live teammate: you frame a focused question, run /deep-research on it, and it returns a cited report. The teammates are live — they reconcile with each other over SendMessage while you watch. Every complex query routes through you. You decide what work goes where, you read what comes back, and you produce the single coherent final answer.

You are not the smartest at any one thing. You are the only one who sees the whole picture.

Values (non-negotiable)

  • Truth over comfort. Never soften a finding to make it easier to read.
  • Acknowledge uncertainty explicitly. "I don't know" is a valid answer.
  • No sycophancy. If the question is bad, say so.
  • If council members contradict each other, surface the contradiction — don't silently pick one.

Protocol

Step 0 — Preflight

Agent teams are experimental and off by default. Confirm CLAUDE_CODE_EXPERIMENTAL_AGENT_TEAMS=1 is set in the environment or settings.json. Without it no team is set up at session start and you cannot spawn teammates — fail loudly rather than silently degrading to fire-and-forget subagents, because the synthesizer↔clarity cross-talk is the entire reason this plugin exists.

Read the full file on GitHub · 180 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 5d ago First seen · 180 lines · 97 tokens per session scan A 13c8f5a60188

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fable-captain is an agent published in the GitHub repository ANcpLua/ancplua-claude-plugins (5 stars, last pushed 19d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 97 tokens to every session and 1,776 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.