orra-init

orra-init is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from sandsower/memento-vault. It costs 60 tokens per session (1,307 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A setup helper for Orra, a tool for coordinating work in a repository, with optional Memento Vault integration. It installs Orra's standard directives and connects the two systems when available.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to bootstrap Orra in a Git repository and add the vault-bridge connection when Memento Vault is installed.
Why use it?
It avoids manually preparing a repository and checking whether the optional note-vault connection is available.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths.

Good fit Use it to bootstrap Orra in a Git repository and add the vault-bridge connection when Memento Vault is installed.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sandsower/memento-vault/orra-init
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add sandsower/memento-vault --skill orra-init
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sandsower/memento-vault

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 60 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,307 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.
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 5.1 $0.00060 $0.01307
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00654
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00261
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00131

Measured 9d ago against content hash aeecae52af71, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

orra-init 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 9d 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/orra-init/SKILL.md · 77 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 77 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

orra-init

Scaffold orra in the current repo: run setup, install the stock directive set, and wire up memento integration via vault-bridge when memento is live.

This skill is shipped by memento-vault as an experimental integration, gated behind ./install.sh --experimental. It brings two systems together without either becoming a hard dependency of the other: orra continues to work without memento, memento continues to work without orra, and the vault-bridge directive is the only coupling surface.

When to use

  • User invokes /orra-init
  • User says "init orra", "set up orra in this repo", "bootstrap orra", or similar
  • User has cloned a new repo and wants orra ready to orchestrate

Preflight

Orra requires a git repo. Run git rev-parse --git-dir from the current working directory. If it fails, tell the user orra needs a git repo (offer git init if they want one) and stop. Do not call orra_setup outside a repo.

Steps

  1. Load deferred tools if needed. If orra_setup, orra_directive, and memento_status are not already loaded, load them in one batch:

    ToolSearch("select:mcp__orra__orra_setup,mcp__orra__orra_directive,mcp__memento-vault__memento_status")
    
  2. Run orra_setup. Creates .orra/config.json, installs the orchestrator persona to .claude/agents/orchestrator.md, adds .orra/ to .gitignore, scaffolds .orra/memory/. Idempotent; safe on repos that already have .orra/.

  3. Install all stock directives. Call orra_directive({action: "install-all"}). Existing customized directives are preserved (the tool skips them explicitly).

  4. Check memento availability. Call memento_status. A healthy response (returns vault_exists: true or a positive note_count) means memento is live. Error or unhealthy response means memento is not set up; skip vault-bridge silently, that's a supported configuration.

  5. Install vault-bridge (if memento is live).

    • If .orra/directives/vault-bridge.md already exists: leave it alone and note that the user has a local copy (possibly customized).
    • If it does not exist: copy the template.
      cp ~/.claude/skills/orra-init/templates/vault-bridge.md .orra/directives/vault-bridge.md
      

Read the full file on GitHub · 77 lines

Files

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.

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. 9d ago First seen · 77 lines · 60 tokens per session scan A aeecae52af71

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orra-init is a skill published in the GitHub repository sandsower/memento-vault (12 stars, last pushed 26d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 60 tokens to every session and 1,307 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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