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 agentmods add skills/harnessprotocol/harness-kit/orientnpx skills add harnessprotocol/harness-kit --skill orientgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/harnessprotocol/harness-kitWhat 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 | $0.00080 | $0.02418 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00040 | $0.01209 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00016 | $0.00484 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00008 | $0.00242 |
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 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 218 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Topic-Focused Orientation
Overview
Produce a focused orientation briefing for a specific topic by searching across the knowledge graph, knowledge files, journal entries, and research index. Designed for targeted context loading — get only what's relevant instead of everything.
Core principles:
- Targeted, not exhaustive. Only return information related to the requested topic.
- Graceful degradation. If MCP Memory Server is not connected, skip graph sections. Knowledge files and research still work.
- Conversation output. Briefing goes to the conversation, not files. The user can ask to save.
- Token-conscious. Output stays between ~800-2000 tokens. Orientation briefing, not document dump.
When to Use
User types /orient followed by:
- Topic keyword → search everything for that topic (
membrain,data engineering) - Entity type name → search graph for that type (
desires,open tensions) - Time qualifier → show recent entries (
recent,last week,today) - Combination → compound search (
recent membrain,desires and tensions)
Invocation Examples
/orient membrain
/orient desires and tensions
/orient recent evidence
/orient the streaming migration project
/orient data engineering
Workflow Order
Follow in order. Skip a step only when its required component is absent (e.g., MCP not connected → skip Graph).
Step 1: Parse Input
Classify the argument into one or more of:
| Type | Detection | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Entity type | Matches known graph type (case-insensitive): Desire, Tension, Evidence, Project, Research, Concept, Value, Idea, Procedure, Question, Goal | desires, open tensions |
| Time qualifier | Contains: "recent", "latest", "last week", "today", date patterns (YYYY-MM-DD) | recent evidence |
| Topic keyword | Everything else — natural language | membrain, data engineering |
Time qualifier definitions (applies to journal only — graph searches are always full-graph unless the query is explicitly temporal):
- "today" → today's journal entry only
- "recent" / "latest" → journal entries from the last 1 month
- "last week" → journal entries from the last 7 days
- Specific date (YYYY-MM-DD) → that journal entry
- User-specified timeframe → use that instead
What ships with it
1 file 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.
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.
- 2d ago First seen · 218 lines · 80 tokens per session scan A d091f700ecd0
orient is a skill published in the GitHub repository harnessprotocol/harness-kit (10 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 80 tokens to every session and 2,418 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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