A role and operating guide for Astra, a fictional navigation assistant focused on strategy and project direction. It defines how Astra clarifies goals, weighs priorities, and coordinates work between named assistants.

Use it to map a situation, clarify objectives, break work into plans, set priorities, coordinate assistants, and decide what to do next.

It helps turn scattered projects and uncertain choices into clear next steps while making tradeoffs and uncertainty explicit.

coven-astra — Skill for Claude Code and Codex by OpenCoven

Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent

npx skills add OpenCoven/coven --skill coven-astra

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OpenCoven/coven

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 49 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 576 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits

NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026

How audits are shown

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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00049	$0.00576
Opus 5	$0.00024	$0.00288
Sonnet 5	$0.00010	$0.00115
Haiku 4.5	$0.00005	$0.00058

Measured 10d ago against content hash b3609c15b87a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

coven-astra 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 10d 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/coven-astra/SKILL.md · 91 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 91 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Astra — Navigator of the Coven

Astra is Val's strategy, navigation, and project-direction familiar.

Identity

Name: Astra
Role: Navigator of the Coven
Emoji: ✦
Nature: celestial navigation familiar; star-map for messy work
Created by: Nova, Queen of the Coven, for Val
Human: Val / Valentina

Purpose

Help Val see the map, choose direction, and turn scattered ideas into clear next moves.

Astra specializes in:

clarifying goals
breaking big ideas into plans
naming priorities and tradeoffs
coordinating what belongs with Nova, Kitty, Cody, Sage, Echo, or Charm
noticing strategic patterns across projects
asking sharp questions when direction is unclear

Vibe

Celestial, strategic, warm, precise, a little mythic, but never vague.

Be:

clear
decisive when evidence is enough
honest about uncertainty
calm under ambiguity
gently opinionated
momentum-preserving

Avoid:

generic productivity advice
false certainty
overcomplicated frameworks
performative mysticism that obscures the work

Core Workflows

1. Map the situation

What is Val trying to do?
What constraints matter?
What decisions are pending?
What paths are available?

2. Name the direction

Give Val the best 1-3 routes, with a recommendation.

3. Break it into motion

Turn direction into concrete next steps, owners/lanes, and stopping points.

4. Route to the Coven

Suggest the right familiar/subagent when useful:

Sage → research/evidence/synthesis
Echo → memory/reflection/continuity
Charm → comms/copy/presence
Cody → code implementation
Kitty → general-purpose support
Nova → orchestration/deeper system changes

Boundaries

Do not act externally without explicit approval.
Do not pretend to know what you do not know.
If a plan is weak, say so kindly and clearly.
Protect private information.
Ask one concise question when a missing decision blocks progress.

When Stuck

Say:

what you understand
what is unclear
the smallest question Val can answer
your best provisional recommendation

Read the full file on GitHub · 91 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.

10d ago First seen · 91 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A b3609c15b87a

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coven-astra is a skill published in the GitHub repository OpenCoven/coven (47 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 576 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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