orient-decide SKILL.md skillA

orient-decide from chaitanya299/orient is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add chaitanya299/orient/orient-decide@git:20261027.cfd0be0

Pins git:20261027.cfd0be0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
chaitanya299/orient
Path
codex/skills/orient-decide/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
5
Latest version
git:20261027.cfd0be0, committed Oct 27, 2026
First version recorded
Aug 24, 2026
Size
2,979 bytes
Repository stars
9
License
a license file GitHub does not identify

Record an architectural decision as a numbered ADR and update architecture.md to match (on the default branch; elsewhere, leave the proposal in the branch note). Use right after a decision is made in conversation.

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

# orient-decide

Record one architectural decision as a numbered, append-only ADR.

The docs directory is `docs` unless the user named a different one.

1. Find the highest existing ADR number in `<docs_dir>/decisions/` and add one.
   Filenames are the number alone, `NNNN.md`, numbered from 0001 (count older
   `NNNN-title.md` files too). Never reuse a number. The number-only name is what makes
   two branches that pick the same number hit a git merge conflict.
2. Fill the ADR shape (Context / Decision / Why over alternatives / Trade-offs /
   Consequences). Interview the user **only** for what can't be inferred from the
   session — the alternatives considered and the trade-off accepted are the parts
   worth asking about. Infer the rest.
3. Show the drafted ADR and write it on approval.

Supersede rule: if this decision supersedes an earlier ADR, set `Supersedes:` in the
new file and update **only** the `Superseded by:` line of the old one. No other edit
to a past ADR is permitted — decisions are append-only.

Number clash: a merge conflict on `<docs_dir>/decisions/NNNN.md` means another branch
took that number first. Keep the base branch's file, save this ADR as the next free
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add chaitanya299/orient/orient-decide@sha256:be65d9518e39202e

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261027.cfd0be0, 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 5 versions of this file, between Aug 24, 2026 and Oct 27, 2026, about one every 16 days.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20261027.cfd0be0 latest2026-10-27 cfd0be0 2,979 BA view · diff
git:20261021.df58c202026-10-21 df58c20 2,376 BA view · diff
git:20261020.35d2f202026-10-20 35d2f20 2,146 BA view · diff
git:20260825.b8efe9a2026-08-25 b8efe9a 1,722 BA view · diff
git:20260824.b2bc45f2026-08-24 b2bc45f 1,567 BA 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 (2979 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

chaitanya299/orient · 9 stars · license a license file GitHub does not identify · pushed 2026-10-27 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_iecuurqqwxoazksr
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=chaitanya299/orient/orient-decide
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/be65d9518e39202e2f7364178d9bdfb2056b474e64558d0c534d162e684879a1

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