orient-init SKILL.md skillA

orient-init 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-init@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-init/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
5
Latest version
git:20261027.cfd0be0, committed Oct 27, 2026
First version recorded
Aug 24, 2026
Size
7,381 bytes
Repository stars
9
License
a license file GitHub does not identify

Scaffold or repair the Orient docs system (STATE.md, decisions/, architecture.md) in this repo. Run once per project.

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-init

Scaffold a small, context-cheap documentation system into this repo, or repair an
existing one. This writes files, so every write is a proposal the user approves —
never a silent write. Show the drafted content before writing it.

Work through these steps in order.

## 1. Resolve the docs directory
Use `docs` unless the user named a different directory. Call it `$DOCS_DIR`. Every
path below is relative to the repo root.

The one artifact every future session depends on is the AGENTS.md pointer block
(step 6) — it carries the triggers that make decision-capture work. If there's any
chance you won't finish every step, write that block first; the rest of this flow only
refines the docs it points to. (The npm installer usually wrote it already; step 6 then
just refreshes it in place.)

## 2. Detect an existing setup (repair mode)
If `$DOCS_DIR/STATE.md` or `$DOCS_DIR/decisions/` already exists, switch to repair
mode: report what exists, propose only additions, and never overwrite an existing
file. `orient-init` must be safe to run repeatedly.

## 3. Survey the repo
Codex has no subagent, so do this survey yourself, then stop reading once you can
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add chaitanya299/orient/orient-init@sha256:12efc0340e66797a

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.

Badge

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

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

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 7,381 BA view · diff
git:20261020.35d2f202026-10-20 35d2f20 7,149 BA view · diff
git:20260828.7d5d8b62026-08-28 7d5d8b6 7,191 BA view · diff
git:20260825.b8efe9a2026-08-25 b8efe9a 6,821 BA view · diff
git:20260824.b2bc45f2026-08-24 b2bc45f 6,332 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 (7381 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_vkjixptowqrutiej
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=chaitanya299/orient/orient-init
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/12efc0340e66797a6cb123fc26f358ef7582926f7a3eaa682c5d6440da76d801

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