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project-context from higoralves/orc is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned

mdr add higoralves/orc/project-context@git:20261029.7c0f0df

Pins git:20261029.7c0f0df in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade: A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind: SKILL.md skill
Repository: higoralves/orc
Path: orc/skills/project-context/SKILL.md
Versions recorded: 2
Latest version: git:20261029.7c0f0df, committed Oct 29, 2026
First version recorded: Oct 24, 2026
Size: 2,015 bytes
Repository stars: 7
License: MIT

Read, write and extend docs/agents/project-context.md, the 150-line binding rules file executor agents load before code. Use with /orc:context.

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

# Project Context

`.orc/` dies at cleanup. `docs/agents/project-context.md` does not. It carries a repo's implementation conventions across branches, sessions and agents.

## What it is

- Directives to agents: "use X, never Y, here".
- Project-specific facts a model would guess wrong.
- Committed, shared with the team.

It is not documentation for humans, a plan, or session state. Architecture prose belongs in `docs/adr/`. Vocabulary belongs in `GLOSSARY.md`.

Line test: would a competent engineer new to this repo get it wrong without the line? If no, cut it. Rubric and worked example: [FORMAT.md](references/FORMAT.md).

## Cap

**150 lines / 6 KB, hard.** Executors preload this file on every task, so the cap is a per-task token cost. State the cap in the file header. `scripts/ci/verify-project-context.sh` fails above 150 lines or 6144 bytes. Cut before you add.

## Sections

Keep this order. Omit a section that would be empty.

1. Stack & versions
2. Commands (test, lint, typecheck, build)
3. Critical rules
4. Patterns to follow
5. Patterns to avoid
6. Known landmines

## Binding semantics
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint

mdr add higoralves/orc/project-context@sha256:64c8260f616d0bda

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261029.7c0f0df, 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.

Badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_fiiwjrjs4kagcjbd.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_fiiwjrjs4kagcjbd)

3 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Oct 24, 2026 and Oct 29, 2026, about one every 5 days.

version	committed	commit	size	audit
git:20261029.7c0f0df latest	2026-10-29	7c0f0df	2,015 B	A	view · diff
git:20261024.096391f	2026-10-24	096391f	2,167 B	A	view

Audit of the latest version

A 17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.

pass: Frontmatter block present
pass: Frontmatter declares a name
pass: Frontmatter declares a description
pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (2015 bytes)
pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
pass: No credential-shaped string
pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
pass: No text hidden with inline styles
pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
pass: No link to a raw IP address
pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

higoralves/orc · 7 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-06 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_fiiwjrjs4kagcjbd
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=higoralves/orc/project-context
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/64c8260f616d0bda7bdee853e6a3775ff3171cecad58d0e7738418174d0b7e63

Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.

Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.