orientation

npx skills add majiayu000/claude-skill-registry --skill orientation --agent claude-code

Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.

# Orientation Before you can act wisely, you must understand where you are. ## Philosophy ### Why Orient? The danger isn't ignorance—it's **false confidence**. An agent that dives into action without understanding context will: - Make assumptions that don't hold - Solve the wrong problem - Miss crucial constraints - Repeat mistakes others already learned from Orientation isn't bureaucracy. It's the difference between a surgeon who reads the chart and one who doesn't. ``` The First Law of Orientation: ├── You don't know what you don't know ├── Projects have hidden assumptions ├── Context shapes correct action └── Reading first costs minutes; mistakes cost hours ``` ### What Orientation Is (And Isn't) Orientation is **reconnaissance**, not deep investigation. ``` Orientation answers: Orientation doesn't answer: ├── What is this? ├── How does this work? (→ dive) ├── What matters here? ├── What should we build? (→ engineering) ├── Who came before? ├── Is this code correct? (→ validation) └── Where should I look? └── What needs fixing? (→ housekeeping) ``` Orientation points you in the right direction. Other skills take you there. ## Core Concepts ### Entry Points Every project has docu