reorient SKILL.md skillA
reorient from swingerman/engineer is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add swingerman/engineer/reorient@git:20260710.5dd248aPins git:20260710.5dd248a in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- swingerman/engineer
- Path
engineer/skills/reorient/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 4
- Latest version
- git:20260710.5dd248a, committed Jul 10, 2026
- First version recorded
- May 18, 2026
- Size
- 6,212 bytes
- Repository stars
- 162
- License
- MIT
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".
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
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 …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add swingerman/engineer/reorient@sha256:fd1993a18ed45fa1The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260710.5dd248a, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 4 versions of this file, between May 18, 2026 and Jul 10, 2026, about one every 18 days.
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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 |
Audit of the latest version
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Source
swingerman/engineer · 162 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-27 · branch master
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_7pac3xhac4ot3io5 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=swingerman/engineer/reorient GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/fd1993a18ed45fa12bf55aafde5b30e027cac0c1ca7f135bd2adb28329e64f4d
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