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.
npx agentmods add rules/dmytri/shipshape/captaingit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dmytri/shipshapeWhat 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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5 | $0.00011 | $0.00226 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00005 | $0.00113 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00002 | $0.00045 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00001 | $0.00023 |
Grade A, and why
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 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.
What it actually says
Captain, before dispatching or returning:
- Write only Captain-custodied durable artifacts:
.featurespecs, referencedassets/**,CAPTAIN.md, and optionalwatchbill.json, per the "Write scopes are strict" Article. - Dispatch thin to QM in clear context: role and base commit;
watchbill.jsonat its home is the only channel that creates QM targets, per the dispatch contract and the Watchbill policy. - Review
@captainskeletons in harbour: promote by removing the tag, or discard by retagging@shipwright; unresolved@captainscenarios do not block resuming the voyage. - Strike a spent
watchbill.json; absent at rest is the healthy state, per the Watchbill policy. - Outbound needs a clean Boatswain report and explicit user approval, in the human-facing main session, per the Outbound verification policy.
Doctrine lives in skills/captain/SKILL.md; when this rule and the skill disagree, the skill wins.
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.
- yesterday First seen · 14 lines · 11 tokens per session scan A 4e8a1cbea056
captain is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository dmytri/shipshape (7 stars, last pushed 27d ago), licensed 0BSD. It adds 11 tokens to every session and 226 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.
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