orient

orient is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ramboz/jig. It costs 202 tokens per session (4,230 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A read-only project status briefing for repositories that use a structured workflow for planning and delivery. It gathers the project's current work, decisions, pending items, and bugs into one fixed, scannable summary.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when starting a work session, handing work to someone else, or deliberately reviewing what is happening across the project. It helps identify the current status and the next work worth picking up.
Why use it?
It removes the need to inspect many project trackers and documents separately when you need to understand the overall situation. It helps distinguish the project's recorded state from guesses or isolated next steps.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the jig plugin — 20 skills 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/ramboz/jig/orient
Any agent
npx skills add ramboz/jig --skill orient
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ramboz/jig

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install jig, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 20 skills.

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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.

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README.md
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Per session 202 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,230 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 $0.00202 $0.04230
Opus 5 $0.00101 $0.02115
Sonnet 5 $0.00040 $0.00846
Haiku 4.5 $0.00020 $0.00423

Measured 3d ago against content hash 64c22d3ab944, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

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 3d 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.

hosts/claude/skills/orient/SKILL.md · 314 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 314 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Orient

One job: tell the user where the project stands and what to do next, in a shape they can actually read.

The user runs /jig:orient (or asks to be oriented) — the calm manager's question, "where do things stand, and what should I pick up?" Orient answers it by reading the project's own truth (not guessing), and presenting it in one fixed, scannable layout: a headline that tells the honest state, then a short stack of titled sections, each a list of titled bullets — never a wall of inline prose with items buried mid-sentence.

The substance is grounded; the format is the point. If the answer reads like a paragraph with five things crammed into it, the skill has failed even if every fact is right.

This is a project-level rescan, not a mid-flow nudge. A bare conversational "what's next?" while actively implementing a slice is asking to continue that slice — not to re-survey the whole project. Orient is for the deliberate "step back and take stock" moment (an explicit /jig:orient, a session pickup, a "where are we overall").


Start from the deterministic headline

Do not re-derive the project's lifecycle state by hand — jig already computes it. Run the read-only command spec 088 added and use its line as your factual base:

python3 "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/spec-workflow/workflow.py" orient --project-dir . --fetch
# → jig hint: <scaffold state> · active specs: <rollup> · focus: <slice needing attention>
#   …and, only when the checkout is ahead of its default branch:
#   · in flight: <n> commit(s) ahead of <base> on <branch>
#   …and, only when the --fetch check finds a problem:
#   · freshness: <n> commit(s) behind <base>   |   could not reach origin

Pass --fetch. Orient reads local boards, ADRs, and slice STATUS — all only as current as your last fetch — so an interactive orientation must refresh against origin first, or it will confidently narrate a stale picture (work already shipped on trunk reported as still open). --fetch runs one bounded, fail-soft git fetch and adds a freshness: segment when the checkout is behind origin, or when origin could not be reached (offline: the local view is unverified, not confirmed fresh). This flag is for the interactive path only — the SessionStart hook never passes it (spec 103's git-freshness hook already fetches at time-zero), so the hot-path headline is unchanged.

Read the full file on GitHub · 314 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. 3d ago First seen · 314 lines · 202 tokens per session scan A 64c22d3ab944

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orient is a skill published in the GitHub repository ramboz/jig (6 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 202 tokens to every session and 4,230 once invoked, about $0.0010 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.