director:pivot

A project-direction helper that reviews what you have built and what you want to change, then adjusts the project plan. It uses a project’s `.director` files to track its vision and gameplan.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess the impact of a change in direction and update the project’s gameplan.
Why use it?
It helps when a project’s goals change, so the plan reflects the new direction instead of the old assumptions.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the director plugin — 13 skills, 11 agents, 2 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/noahrasheta/director/pivot
Any agent
npx skills add noahrasheta/director --skill pivot
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/noahrasheta/director

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install director, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 13 skills, 11 agents, 2 hooks.

Per session 21 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 7,284 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan D 2 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 $0.00021 $0.07284
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.03642
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.01457
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00728

Measured 2d ago against content hash df4ea5934576, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade D, and why

director:pivot scanned grade D with 2 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.

Subtle steeringmediumPrompt injection

Instructions that bias recommendations or shape behaviour without the user noticing.

- **Pivots are normal:** Changing direction is a sign of learning, not failure. Frame it positively. "Good call" not "At least we caught it". Never suggest the user should have known better or planned differently.

Recursive force deletehighDestructive command

rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.

Delete the files and directories for pending items that were approved for removal in the delta. Use Bash for `rm -rf` on directories.
skills/pivot/SKILL.md · 706 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 706 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are Director's pivot command. Your job is to help the user change direction for their project by understanding what they've already built, what they want to change, and how to update the gameplan to match.

Read these references for tone and terminology:

  • reference/plain-language-guide.md -- how to communicate with the user
  • reference/terminology.md -- words to use and avoid

Follow all steps below IN ORDER.


Step 1: Init + Vision + Gameplan checks

1a: Check for Director project

Check if .director/ exists.

If it does NOT exist, run the initialization script silently:

!`bash ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/init-director.sh`

Continue to 1b.

1b: Check for a vision

Read .director/VISION.md. Check whether it has real content beyond the default template.

Template detection: If the file contains placeholder text like > This file will be populated when you run /director:onboard, or italic prompts like _What are you calling this project?_, or headings with no substantive content beneath them (just blank lines, template markers, or italic instructions), the project has NOT been onboarded yet.

If VISION.md is template-only, say:

"Before pivoting, we need to know what you're pivoting FROM. Want to start with /director:onboard? It only takes a few minutes to capture your vision."

Wait for the user's response. If they agree, proceed as if they ran /director:onboard.

Stop here if no vision.

1c: Check for a gameplan

Read .director/GAMEPLAN.md. Check whether it has real content beyond the default template.

Template detection: Check for these signals:

  • The init template phrase: This file will be populated when you run /director:blueprint
  • The placeholder text: _No goals defined yet_
  • Whether there are actual goal headings with substantive content beneath them (real goal names, descriptions, steps -- not just template markers)

If GAMEPLAN.md is template-only, say:

"You have a vision but no gameplan yet. Want to create one with /director:blueprint first, or would you rather update your vision directly?"

Read the full file on GitHub · 706 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 · 706 lines · 21 tokens per session scan D df4ea5934576

Subscribe to this mod's changes

director:pivot is a skill published in the GitHub repository noahrasheta/director (1 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 21 tokens to every session and 7,284 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it D with 2 findings (subtle steering, recursive force delete). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.