compass

compass is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from norrietaylor/distillery. It costs 30 tokens per session (4,584 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A method for comparing what a team knows from its own implementation with broader available information, then giving a direction such as ahead, exposed, decide, or confirm.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess implementation knowledge against outside information and decide what to investigate or confirm.
Why use it?
It helps show where internal knowledge is sufficient, where it may be missing, and where a decision or verification is needed.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the distillery plugin — 15 skills, 1 agent, 1 MCP server 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/norrietaylor/distillery/compass
Any agent
npx skills add norrietaylor/distillery --skill compass
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/norrietaylor/distillery

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install distillery, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 15 skills, 1 agent, 1 MCP server.

Wrote 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.

agentmods badge for compass

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/norrietaylor/distillery/compass.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/norrietaylor/distillery/compass)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/norrietaylor/distillery/compass"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/norrietaylor/distillery/compass.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 30 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,584 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00030 $0.04584
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.02292
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00917
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00458

Measured 5d ago against content hash a781de33edc8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

compass 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.

skills/compass/SKILL.md · 291 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

Read it on GitHub

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 · 291 lines · 30 tokens per session scan A a781de33edc8

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compass is a skill published in the GitHub repository norrietaylor/distillery (24 stars, last pushed today), with no licence file. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 4,584 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 2026-08-30.

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