reorient skillA
reorient is agent-read markdown (skill) from swingerman/engineer: Use mid-task when the working thread is lost — after a context compaction, a long agent run, or coming back to a feature unsure of the role, the current checkpoint, or the next action. Triggers — "/engineer.reorient", "reorient", "re-anchor", "what should I be doing right now", "I lost track", "where was I"..
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What the file says
# reorient Restore the working contract mid-task. After a context compaction or a long run, an agent loses role identity, invents constraints that do not exist, skips required steps, and loses the task thread. `reorient` reloads the durable state that should have survived — the discipline contract first, the task pointer second. Read-only and advisory. It changes nothing, produces no artifact, and emits **no handoff** — like `next`, the orientation block is the whole output; a handoff would only restate it. The third skill exempt from the agentic summary contract. `reorient` is the mid-task, feature-scoped counterpart to `next` (project-scoped, session-start). ## When to use - Right after a context compaction (a `SessionStart` hook can auto-invoke it). - Mid-task, when unsure of the role, the current checkpoint, or the next action. - Returning to a feature after an interruption. **Not for:** session-start "what should I pick up across the project" (`next`); loading a feature not yet started (`prime-context`); validating artifacts (`consistency-check`). ## Workflow ### Step 1 — Resolve and locate Resolve the methodology root + manifest via …
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How to install
mdr add swingerman/engineer/reorient@git:20260710.5dd248amdr add swingerman/engineer/reorient@sha256:fd1993a18ed45fa1Pin to a label to follow the author's releases, or to a sha256 to freeze the exact bytes forever. Either way the resolved hash is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install reproduces it on any machine.
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Versions
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| git:20260710.5dd248a latest | 2026-07-10 | 5dd248a | 6,212 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260604.c294fe7 | 2026-06-04 | c294fe7 | 5,357 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260519.48d676b | 2026-05-19 | 48d676b | 3,842 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260518.9b18553 | 2026-05-18 | 9b18553 | 3,666 B | A | view |
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Source
swingerman/engineer · 150 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-22 · branch master
API
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