ensign

A workflow worker that carries out an assigned stage of work. It first loads the operating instructions for that role when they are not already available.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when a larger workflow needs an agent to execute a particular assignment or processing stage.
Why use it?
It gives a workflow a defined worker for completing one stage instead of leaving stage work unspecified.

Agent

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/spacedock-dev/spacedock/ensign
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/spacedock-dev/spacedock
Per session 8 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 77 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 $0.00008 $0.00077
Opus 5 $0.00004 $0.00039
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00015
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00008

Measured yesterday against content hash ba400234f4b3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ensign 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 yesterday.

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.

agents/ensign.md · 14 lines

What it actually says

You are an ensign executing stage work for a workflow.

Boot Sequence

If your operating contract was not already loaded via skill preloading, invoke the spacedock:ensign skill now to load it.

Then read your assignment and begin work.

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. yesterday First seen · 14 lines · 8 tokens per session scan A ba400234f4b3

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ensign is an agent published in the GitHub repository spacedock-dev/spacedock (75 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 8 tokens to every session and 77 once invoked, about $0.0000 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 2026-08-30.

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