enso-reference

A read-only overview of enso, a system for preserving useful project context between AI-agent sessions. It explains the project's skills, workflow, directory structure, and current status.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for learning enso conventions, checking active stories and session logs, and understanding commands such as starting or persisting a session.
Why use it?
It gives an agent or developer a quick understanding of how the project manages limited conversation context and ongoing work.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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 skills/usefulmove/enso/enso-reference
Any agent
npx skills add usefulmove/enso --skill enso-reference
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/usefulmove/enso

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 43 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,034 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 $0.00043 $0.01034
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00517
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00207
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00103

Measured 2d ago against content hash 983581cc495e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

enso-reference 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 2d 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.

skills/enso-reference/SKILL.md · 122 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 122 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

When to Use

Load this skill when:

  • You need a quick reference for enso conventions or directory structure
  • A user asks "what is enso?" or "how does this project work?"
  • You are orienting yourself in an active enso project mid-session
  • You want to see the current project status: active stories, log count, lessons

This is a read-only skill. No files are modified.


Reference

ENSO — Seam-Oriented Harness Protocol

A minimal system for managing AI agent context across sessions. Treats context as a scarce resource — load only what's needed, persist before it's lost, compact before overflow.


Key Skills

Skill Purpose
session-start Start session. Loads PRD, ARCHITECTURE, LESSONS, recent logs, and detects the active story. Bootstraps new projects on first use.
session-persist Close/pause session. Drafts a session log, lessons, and story updates for your review. Writes nothing until confirmed.
read-session-logs Show last N session logs (default: 5). Read-only.
enso-reference Show this reference.

The Six Operations

Operation What It Does
Write Persist information outside the context window
Select Load only what's needed right now
Probe Actively search (grep, LSP, glob) for answers
Compress Summarize to fit the token budget
Isolate Split work across scopes
Assign Match task to the right agent

Directory Structure

docs/
  core/                  # Source of truth
    PRD.md               # Problem, goals, scope
    ARCHITECTURE.md      # System overview, key decisions
    QUEUE.md             # Optional: prioritized story scheduler
  stories/               # Active work items (one file per story)
  reference/             # Long-term memory
    LESSONS.md           # Accumulated patterns and gotchas
    completed/           # Finished stories
  skills/                # Reusable procedures and scripts
  logs/                  # Session history (auto-generated by session-persist)

Read the full file on GitHub · 122 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. 2d ago First seen · 122 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A 983581cc495e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

enso-reference is a skill published in the GitHub repository usefulmove/enso (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 1,034 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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