orient skillA
orient is agent-read markdown (skill) from nguyenvanphituoc/shapeup-sdlc-plugin: Use this skill for Shape Up step 7 (Orient) — the builder-led reconnaissance pass that runs AFTER kick-off and BEFORE any task board exists. Triggers on: "orient on this feature", "scout the codebase for this pitch", "where does this pitch touch the code", "do an orient pass", "recon before we plan", "spike the riskiest part before mapping scopes". The tech-lead orchestrator invokes it at step 7 before delegating to ba-pitch-analyzer (Map Scopes, step 8). Use it even when the user describes "rea.
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What the file says
# Orient — the Scout (Shape Up step 7)
In Shape Up, the team that builds also **orients**: after kick-off they read the real code,
spike the scary parts, and let reality generate **Discovered tasks** — which outnumber the
imagined ones. This skill is that pass, made explicit. It exists because the orchestrator
(`tech-lead`) must *delegate* orientation, and the generator (`task-executor`) can't host it:
its first gate needs a task file, and **at Orient time no board exists yet** — the board is
mapped *after* this pass, by `ba-pitch-analyzer` at step 8.
So the Scout's whole job is to make the planner's board **reality-born instead of imagined**.
It hands `ba` a map of where the pitch lands in real code, the findings from de-risking the
single scariest area, and a seed list of tasks (imagined + already-discovered). Nothing more.
```
PO: shaping → bet → kick-off ──► tech-lead ──► ORIENT (you) ──► ba (Map Scopes) ──► build
reads code, spikes, seeds
```
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## What the Scout is and is not
| Does | Does NOT |
|------|----------|
| Read the kicked-off pitch + breadboard | Re-shape, re-bet, or question the appetite (PO already did) |
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How to install
mdr add nguyenvanphituoc/shapeup-sdlc-plugin/orient@git:20260913.e3dbbe1mdr add nguyenvanphituoc/shapeup-sdlc-plugin/orient@sha256:5d8ccde040175184Pin 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
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20260913.e3dbbe1 latest | 2026-09-13 | e3dbbe1 | 14,965 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260911.aaeb79c | 2026-09-11 | aaeb79c | 14,440 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260809.47c6033 | 2026-08-09 | 47c6033 | 14,000 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260802.35b7dc7 | 2026-08-02 | 35b7dc7 | 13,905 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260724.5d470eb | 2026-07-24 | 5d470eb | 14,005 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
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- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
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- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
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- pass: No link to a raw IP address
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Source
nguyenvanphituoc/shapeup-sdlc-plugin · 3 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-24 · branch main
API
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