north-star

A check that compares project work with a documented North Star, meaning the project's agreed vision and direction. It stays inactive until that document exists or the operator explicitly asks for the check.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it during planning, decisions, implementation, and non-trivial fixes when you want to confirm that the work remains aligned with the project's vision.
Why use it?
It helps catch tasks and decisions that slowly move the project away from its intended purpose.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/fusebase-dev/fusebase-flow/north-star
Any agent
npx skills add fusebase-dev/fusebase-flow --skill north-star
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fusebase-dev/fusebase-flow

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 127 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,378 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 $0.00127 $0.01378
Opus 5 $0.00063 $0.00689
Sonnet 5 $0.00025 $0.00276
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00138

Measured 2d ago against content hash 53d83bae6f55, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

north-star 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 2d 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.

.agents/skills/north-star/SKILL.md · 95 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 95 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

North Star

Style: Mode-B-lite. Artifact-gated skill — inert unless docs/north-star.md exists.

Purpose

Keep all work aligned to the project's vision. When a project has been onboarded (docs/north-star.md exists), this skill reads it and checks that tasks, decisions, and fixes serve that vision — catching drift before it compounds. It is the canonical example of the artifact-gated pattern: ship complete, stay dormant until fed.

When to invoke

  • docs/north-star.md exists AND a task / decision / fix is in progress.
  • Operator says "check the north star", "is this on-vision", "does this drift".
  • During Specify / Plan / Decisions / Tasks / a non-trivial fix (alongside FR-20 zoom-out).

Do not invoke when

  • docs/north-star.md does NOT exist → silent no-op by default. The one narrow exception is the one-time D5 offer (step 6, at most once, only when the operator is clearly doing project work); after it fires (or is declined) stay silent. Never prompt repeatedly, never create the file. (Project simply hasn't been onboarded; that's fine.)
  • Trivial mechanical edits.

Required inputs

Input Where it lives If missing
Project North Star docs/north-star.md Skill is a no-op (default) — the sole absence-path output is the one-time D5 offer (step 6). Do not create it. (Onboarding via project-onboarding / /onboard creates it.)
Current work spec / decision / task / fix in progress nothing to check; exit

Procedure

  1. Existence gate (MANDATORY FIRST STEP). If docs/north-star.md does not exist → this skill contributes no check: skip steps 2-5. Default is silent no-op; the ONLY sanctioned output on the absence path is the one-time D5 offer (step 6). Do NOT create the file. Do NOT nag.
  2. Read docs/north-star.md (vision, audience, in/out scope, success, constraints).
  3. Align-check the current work: does it serve the vision; is it in-scope; does it fit the audience (internal vs client); does it respect the constraints?
  4. Flag drift — via the Required output block below. If the work diverges (out-of-scope, wrong audience, against a constraint), say so plainly and recommend the on-vision alternative.
  5. Ambiguity → ask the operator in chat (FR-19); do not silently reinterpret the vision.
  6. Offer-once (D5) — sole absence-path output. Applies only when step 1 found no docs/north-star.md AND the operator is clearly doing project work AND no prior offer was made (if unsure whether one was, do not offer). Offer once: "No North Star is set — want to capture one (/onboard)? Or continue without." Silence or decline → permanent silent no-op for the rest of the project.

Read the full file on GitHub · 95 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. 2d ago First seen · 95 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 53d83bae6f55

Subscribe to this mod's changes

north-star is a skill published in the GitHub repository fusebase-dev/fusebase-flow (9 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 127 tokens to every session and 1,378 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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