orient

orient is a command for coding agents from nguyenvanphituoc/shapeup-sdlc-plugin. It costs 18 tokens per session (123 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A codebase exploration step performed before a task board is created. It reads the code, tests the riskiest area with a small experiment, and records what was found without changing production code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to map the relevant code, investigate one risky area, seed future tasks, and indicate whether the work appears difficult.
Why use it?
It exposes important unknowns and technical risks before implementation begins. This helps the team understand which parts of the code will be affected.

Command

Part of the shapeup-sdlc-plugin plugin — 17 skills, 11 commands, 4 hooks shipped together

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 commands/nguyenvanphituoc/shapeup-sdlc-plugin/orient
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nguyenvanphituoc/shapeup-sdlc-plugin

Or install shapeup-sdlc-plugin, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 17 skills, 11 commands, 4 hooks.

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.

agentmods badge for orient

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/commands/nguyenvanphituoc/shapeup-sdlc-plugin/orient"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/nguyenvanphituoc/shapeup-sdlc-plugin/orient.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 18 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 123 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 $0.00018 $0.00123
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00062
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00025
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00012

Measured 4d ago against content hash 45f4c8775f71, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

orient 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 4d 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.

commands/orient.md · 12 lines

What it actually says

Use the orient skill on $ARGUMENTS.

This is step 7 — after kick-off, before any task board exists. It reads the code, spikes the single riskiest area, and emits a code-surface map, spike findings, a discovered-task seed, and a hill signal. It writes no production code.

If the user has not named a pitch or spec folder, ask which feature to orient on rather than guessing from the working tree.

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. 4d ago First seen · 12 lines · 18 tokens per session scan A 45f4c8775f71

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orient is a command published in the GitHub repository nguyenvanphituoc/shapeup-sdlc-plugin (2 stars, last pushed 14d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 18 tokens to every session and 123 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.