wayfinder

wayfinder is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from vinvcn/mattpocock-skills-zh-CN. It costs 40 tokens per session (2,733 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planning method that maps a large, uncertain project into linked decision tickets in a repository's issue tracker. An issue tracker is a system for recording and organizing project work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan engineering projects, course content, specifications, or migrations that are too large for one agent session. It creates a labelled map issue and connected tickets containing the decisions behind it.
Why use it?
It makes the route through a project visible before implementation begins. Each ticket resolves one decision, so the team can hand off work once no major choices remain.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter, but also agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Part of the mattpocock-skills plugin — 38 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to plan engineering projects, course content, specifications, or migrations that are too large for one agent session. It creates a labelled map issue and connected tickets containing the decisions behind it.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/vinvcn/mattpocock-skills-zh-cn/wayfinder
About the project

mattpocock-skills-zh-CN is a Simplified Chinese localization of a collection of reusable instructions for coding agents. Chinese-speaking developers use the translated skills to support engineering workflows while keeping their original commands, paths, identifiers, and behavior. The catalogue contains the localized skills, instructions, and plugin components.

vinvcn/mattpocock-skills-zh-CN · 5,317 stars · on GitHub · skills.sh

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.

Any agent
npx skills add vinvcn/mattpocock-skills-zh-CN --skill wayfinder
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vinvcn/mattpocock-skills-zh-CN

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install mattpocock-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 38 skills.

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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,733 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
  • Socket pass 9 Oct 2026
  • Snyk warn 9 Oct 2026
  • 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00040 $0.02733
Opus 5.5 $0.00016 $0.01093
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00547
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00273

Measured 18d ago against content hash 1c221cb5bdf7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

wayfinder 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 18d 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/engineering/wayfinder/SKILL.md · 129 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 129 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

一个松散想法出现了:它太大,单个 agent session 装不下,而且被 fog 包围;从这里到 destination 的路还看不见。Wayfinding 的目标是找到这条路,而不是朝 destination 猛冲。这个 skill 会把路径绘制成 repo issue tracker 上的 shared map,然后逐个处理 decision tickets(它们承载需要决策才能解决的问题,而不是要执行的 build slices),直到路线清晰。

不同 effort 的 destination 不同,而为它命名是 charting 的第一个动作;它塑造每个 ticket。它可能是一份要 hand off 并迭代的 spec、一个必须在 planning 前确定的 decision,或 data-structure migration 之类原地完成的 change。Map 与领域无关:engineering work、course content,或任何符合这个形状的事项都可以。

只规划,不动手

Wayfinder 默认用于 planning:每个 ticket 解决一个 decision;当别人动手前已经没有任何事情需要决定、路径完全清晰时,map 才算完成。想直接做工作的冲动通常表示你已经到达 map 边缘,该 hand off 了。Effort 可以在 Notes 中覆盖这个默认值,把 execution 纳入 map;否则只产出 decisions,不产出 deliverables。

用名称引用

每张 map 和每个 ticket 都是 issue,因此都有一个 name:它的 title。在所有给人看的内容里,包括叙述和 map 的 Decisions-so-far,都用 name 引用它,不要只写裸 id、number 或 slug。一堵 #42, #43, #44 很难读;name 一眼就能看懂。Id 和 URL 不会消失,它们被包在 name 的 link 里面,但不单独替代 name。

共享地图

Map 是这个 repo issue tracker 上一个带 wayfinder:map label 的单独 issue,是 canonical artifact。它的 tickets 是 map 的 child issues。

Map 是 index,不是 store。它列出已经做出的 decisions,并指向保存细节的 tickets;一个 decision 只存在一个地方,也就是它的 ticket。因此 map 不复述细节,只给 gist 和 link。

Map、child tickets、blocking 和 frontier queries 的物理表达方式取决于 tracker。 Issue tracker 应该已经提供;如果没有,请让用户运行 /setup-matt-pocock-skills。查阅 tracker doc 的「Wayfinding 操作」小节,了解这个 repo 如何表达它们。如果没有 tracker,默认使用 local-markdown tracker。

Map 正文

Map 是低分辨率的全局视图,每个 session 加载一次。Open tickets 不列在里面;它们是 open child issues,通过 query 找到。

## Destination

<what reaching the end of this map looks like: the spec, decision, or change this effort is finding its way to. One or two lines; every session orients to it before choosing a ticket.>

## Notes

<domain; skills every session should consult; standing preferences for this effort>

## Decisions so far

<!-- the index: one line per closed ticket, enough to judge relevance, then zoom the link for the detail the ticket holds -->

- [<closed ticket title>](link): <one-line gist of the answer>

## Not yet specified

<!-- see "Fog of war": in-scope fog you can't ticket yet; graduates as the frontier advances -->

## Out of scope

<!-- see "Out of scope": work ruled beyond the destination; closed, never graduates -->

Read the full file on GitHub · 129 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. 18d ago Changed 1c221cb5bdf7
  2. 1mo ago Changed 102aaad07ccb
  3. 1mo ago First seen · 129 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A d27fded0fcc1

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wayfinder is a skill published in the GitHub repository vinvcn/mattpocock-skills-zh-CN (5,317 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 2,733 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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