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.
npx skills add allemaar/open-skills --skill orient-statusgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/allemaar/open-skillsWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/allemaar/open-skills/orient-status)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/allemaar/open-skills/orient-status"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/allemaar/open-skills/orient-status/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.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/allemaar/open-skills/orient-status"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/allemaar/open-skills/orient-status.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector pass
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 | $0.00160 | $0.04157 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00080 | $0.02079 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00032 | $0.00831 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00016 | $0.00416 |
Grade A, and why
orient-status 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 12d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 148 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
/orient-status
How far along am I, and when will it be done? Answers with — position · what is left · a banded ETA · (
--resume) the one next move. Does not answer — what changed (/orient-map) · what is stuck (/orient-gaps) · what comes next (/orient-roadmap). Owns for the family — nothing topological; it consumes/orient-map's topology fields.
Computes a fresh, honest read of where the current work stands — position, remaining work, and a banded ETA — and returns it as one ephemeral bundle (a structured YON record + a human markdown read + a small visual). --resume re-frames it for the "I just came back and lost the thread" case. Part of the orient- family; emits a slice of the shared record at references/orient-spec/orient-record.yon.
Structured execution spec:
protocol.yon. Read it for the canonical steps, rules, and gates; this file is the human-readable, self-sufficient explanation. The two must stay in sync — if you edit one, update the other and refresh the@STAMPdate.
The shared record, render contract, worked fixtures, and value validator travel
inside references/. The repository-only round-trip guard is
release evidence; its absence from an installed copy does not block execution.
When to use
- "Where are we / what's the status / how far along / what's the ETA" on a project, repo, plan, or task.
- After a context fill or at the start of a session, before deciding the next move.
--resume: you've been away (a gap, a context-switch) and lost the thread — you need what changed + exactly where to put your hands next.
How it works (self-sufficient — works without protocol.yon)
orient-status delegates the gathering to a bounded, read-only subagent so the calling session (a human's, or an agent orienting itself) never sees the search/inference noise — only the result bundle comes back. Nothing is stored; every call recomputes from current reality.
What ships with it
9 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.
- protocol.yon 9.3 KB
- references/orient-spec/examples/bad/enum-banana.yon 2.0 KB
- references/orient-spec/examples/bad/fail-open.yon 1.6 KB
- references/orient-spec/examples/orient-record.example.yon 3.2 KB
- references/orient-spec/family-behaviors.md 9.9 KB
- references/orient-spec/family-manifest.yon 7.2 KB
- references/orient-spec/orient-contract.md 12 KB
- references/orient-spec/orient-record.yon 14 KB
- references/tools/orient-validate.mjs 14 KB runs code
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.
- 12d ago First seen · 148 lines · 160 tokens per session scan A 19b35e4fcdd6
orient-status is a skill published in the GitHub repository allemaar/open-skills (14 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 160 tokens to every session and 4,157 once invoked, about $0.0008 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 2026-08-30.
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