A command that explains the orientation process, including when to use it, when not to use it, and the expected role and style.

Use it to learn how the orientation command is intended to work.

It gives developers a clear guide for using the orientation command correctly.

orientation — Command for Claude Code by ChristopherKahler/base-v1

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.

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ChristopherKahler/base-v1

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

README.md

[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/christopherkahler/base-v1/orientation/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/commands/christopherkahler/base-v1/orientation)

Your own site

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/commands/christopherkahler/base-v1/orientation"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/christopherkahler/base-v1/orientation/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/commands/christopherkahler/base-v1/orientation"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/christopherkahler/base-v1/orientation.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>

Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.

When invoked 760 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

Origin unknown 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00000	$0.00760
Opus 5.5	$0.00000	$0.00304
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00000	$0.00152
Haiku 4.5	$0.00000	$0.00076

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 9ad6e55903b1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

orientation 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 2mo 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.

src/commands/orientation.md · 88 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

Read it on GitHub

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.

2mo ago First seen · 88 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 9ad6e55903b1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

orientation is a command published in the GitHub repository ChristopherKahler/base-v1 (95 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), with no licence file. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 760 tokens. 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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