twining-orient

twining-orient is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from daveangulo/twining-mcp. It costs 36 tokens per session (346 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A session-start workflow that gathers earlier project decisions, warnings, findings, and status for a specific area of the codebase.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for orienting work in a new scope, reviewing warnings, checking why files were changed, and searching project decisions when available.
Why use it?
It helps an agent avoid repeating known mistakes or contradicting choices made by earlier agents.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the twining plugin — 9 skills, 2 commands, 2 agents, 5 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 skills/daveangulo/twining-mcp/twining-orient
Any agent
npx skills add daveangulo/twining-mcp --skill twining-orient
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/daveangulo/twining-mcp

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install twining, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills, 2 commands, 2 agents, 5 hooks.

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README.md
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Per session 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 346 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 $0.00036 $0.00346
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00173
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00069
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00035

Measured 5d ago against content hash db24daa6511e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

twining-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 5d 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.

plugin/skills/twining-orient/SKILL.md · 30 lines

What it actually says

Twining Orient — Session Start

Before working, assemble shared context so you don't contradict prior decisions or miss warnings.

Do This

  1. Call twining_assemble with your task description and scope (narrowest path that fits, e.g., "src/auth/" not "project"). This returns decisions, warnings, needs, findings, status summary, and handoff context in a structured briefing.

  2. Read the warnings. If active_warnings is non-empty, each one is a "don't do X because Y" from a previous agent. Ignoring them leads to repeated mistakes.

  3. Proceed. You now have shared context. Respect active decisions. Post findings, warnings, and decisions as you work.

Optional Steps

  • Call twining_why on specific files you plan to modify to see their decision history
  • Call twining_register if working alongside other agents (makes you discoverable) — requires tools.full_surface: true
  • Use twining_search_decisions for keyword search across all scopes — requires tools.full_surface: true; otherwise widen the scope you pass to twining_assemble

Scope Conventions

  • "src/auth/" — matches anything under auth (preferred)
  • "src/auth/jwt.ts" — matches a specific file
  • "project" — matches everything (use sparingly — dilutes relevance)
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. 5d ago First seen · 30 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A db24daa6511e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

twining-orient is a skill published in the GitHub repository daveangulo/twining-mcp (7 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 346 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.

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