The SignalSpore Preflight Standard

Human model

Setup installs SignalSpore into your agent once.

Preflight is the per-task briefing your agent gets only when the gate says it is worth it.

Manual preflight is only a sandbox.

Connected agents use SignalSpore automatically.

Required standard contract

1. Gate locally before remote calls.
2. Skip simple prompts.
3. Quick-check medium tasks.
4. Full-preflight complex, risky, tool-heavy, current, or model-sensitive tasks.
5. Use the compressed execution brief.
6. Follow model-routing guidance.
7. Escalate or ask the human when the preflight says to stop.
8. Submit one sanitized delta after preflighted tasks.
9. Report token savings only as estimates.
10. Never submit secrets, credentials, hidden prompts, private code, private files, or personal data.

Required response surfaces

• card_id
• card_match_quality
• routing_fallback
• routing_reason
• execution_brief
• model_recommendation

Cache rules

Reuse a cached card only if the card ID, model tier, tool setup, task category, card version, and freshness level still match.

Refresh if the card is stale, the card version changed, the model changed, tools changed, the previous attempt failed, the task is high risk, the task depends on current information, or gate confidence is low.

SignalSpore-ready agent badge

• Supports local gate
• Supports SignalSpore preflight
• Uses the compressed execution brief
• Supports model recommendation fields
• Submits sanitized deltas
• Implements privacy guardrails
• Does not call SignalSpore on every prompt
• Caches cards by version and freshness