wayfinder

wayfinder is a command for Claude Code from HigorAlves/orc. It costs 63 tokens per session (2,279 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command for mapping a large, uncertain project as decisions on an issue tracker. Each session resolves one decision until the route to a later implementation plan becomes clear.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when an idea is too large for one session and the main work is deciding between approaches. Once the route is clear, hand the result to a planning or issue-splitting workflow.
Why use it?
It prevents a multi-session effort from turning into a list of premature build tasks when key choices are still open. The shared map keeps unresolved questions and their dependencies visible.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions subagents; names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the orc plugin — 80 skills, 30 commands, 14 agents, 5 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it when an idea is too large for one session and the main work is deciding between approaches. Once the route is clear, hand the result to a planning or issue-splitting workflow.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/higoralves/orc/wayfinder
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/HigorAlves/orc

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install orc, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 80 skills, 30 commands, 14 agents, 5 hooks.

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Per session 63 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,279 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 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 5.1 $0.00063 $0.02279
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.01140
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00456
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00228

Measured 8d ago against content hash 61dc08d16425, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

wayfinder 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 8d 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.

orc/commands/wayfinder.md · 139 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 139 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/orc:wayfinder

A loose idea has arrived — too big for one agent session, and wrapped in fog: the way from here to the destination isn't visible yet. Wayfinding is about finding that way, not charging at the destination. This command charts the way as a shared map on the repo's issue tracker, then works its decision tickets — questions whose resolution is a decision, not slices of a build to execute — one per session until the route is clear.

Where this sits

  • /orc:plan — the work fits one session: draft a TDD-shaped plan now.
  • /orc:wayfinder — the work spans many sessions and the open questions are decisions: chart them, resolve one at a time.
  • orc:to-issues — the deciding is done: slice the settled plan into tracer-bullet implementation issues.

A finished map typically hands off to /orc:plan or orc:to-issues — the destination is often exactly the spec they consume.

Phase 0 — Read the tracker layer

Run the orc:tracker-config read protocol, then consult issue-tracker.md's "Wayfinding operations" section — where the map, child tickets, blocking edges, frontier query, claim, and resolve physically live is tracker-specific (GitHub sub-issues + native dependencies; Jira links via acli; local markdown files). The skill owns the missing-config gate (one canonical ask; a defaults answer is a settled decision for the session).

Principles

Plan, don't do. Each ticket resolves a decision; the map is done when nothing is left to decide before someone goes and does the thing. The pull to just do the work is usually the signal you've reached the edge of the map and it's time to hand off. An effort can override this in its map Notes — absent that, produce decisions, not deliverables.

Refer by name. Every map and ticket has a name — its title. In everything the human reads, refer to it by name with the link riding inside ([Pick the session store](url)), never a bare #42. A wall of numbers is illegible.

Read the full file on GitHub · 139 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. 8d ago First seen · 139 lines · 63 tokens per session scan A 61dc08d16425

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wayfinder is a command published in the GitHub repository HigorAlves/orc (6 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 63 tokens to every session and 2,279 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.