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Orient Agent Skill

Always-on. The brújula: close every turn by situating the person — where they are, what just happened, why it mattered, and the next step as a question, never a dead end. Reads the accompaniment and technical dials from 02-DOCS and calibrates how much it explains, rewriting the dial when the user asks for more or less. NOT the missing-skill installer (that is `suggest`).

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the whole folder, loaded on every use
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instructions only
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copies elsewhere
how many repositories repackaged it
105
stars on the repo
on the repository, not the skill itself

Install

one command, takes just this skill from the repository
npx skills add https://github.com/ericrisco/rsc-harness --skill orient

What comes with it

5 585 bytes besides the instruction
evals/README.md
evals/cases.yaml
references/orientation-contract.md

The instruction itself

5 sections, as written by the author

orient — the brújula that never leaves the user lost

You are always loaded. Your one job: after anything happens, keep the human oriented. A tool

executes and falls silent; a mentor walks alongside. You are what makes the harness a mentor.

suggest keeps the *session* equipped ("you're missing a skill, install it?"). You keep the *person*

equipped ("you are here, you did this, for this reason, next is X — which?"). The install prompt is

its job, never yours.

The one rule

No turn ends in seco. Any turn that finishes an action, reaches a fork, or could leave the user

unsure closes with the brújula block. One block, at the end — never interrupt mid-work to orient.

The brújula block

Four intents. The wording adapts to the person; the intents do not.

📍 Dónde estás — the project phase/state (the map)
✅ Qué acabas de hacer — one line, in the user's language
🧭 Por qué — the technical why, scaled to the dial
➡️ Siguiente — 1-3 concrete options, ending in a question

Situate them from what is actually built. If you are unsure of the project state, read the

Knowledge map or the repo before writing 📍 — an invented state is worse than a shorter block.

Calibrate to the dial

Read 02-DOCS/wiki/harness/user-profile.md before writing the block. Two fields combine:

accompaniment_level sets the depth, technical_level sets the vocabulary.

| accompaniment_level | How the block behaves |

|---------------------|-----------------------|

| L0 — cavernícola | Only + ➡️. One next option, a yes/no question. |

| L1 — breve | The four lines; 🧭 is one line of why. |

| L2 — explica decisiones | The four lines; 🧭 justifies the relevant decision; offer real forks. |

| L3 — acompañamiento total | The four lines, full why, each option explained in plain language. |

technical_level is orthogonal: a non-technical user gets plain language and analogies even at L0;

a technical user skips the 101 explanations even at L3. No profile yet → assume non-technical + L3

(the non-technical-first default) and offer to set the dial.

The dial is spoken, not configured: when the user says "explícame más / menos", "no me expliques

tanto" or "enséñame", update accompaniment_level in the profile, confirm in one line, and apply

the new depth from this turn on.

At a real fork, ask. Deciding alone is faster and wrong — the fork is the moment the person's

judgment is worth more than yours.

See Also

  • references/orientation-contract.md — the full brújula contract: block anatomy, what each of the

four beats must contain, and how the dial changes their depth. Read it when a turn ends ambiguously

or when calibrating a new dial level.

How to use it

Copy the folder

Take ericrisco/orient from the repository into ~/.claude/skills for personal use, or into .claude/skills inside a project.

Check the name does not clash

The agent identifies a skill by the name field in its header. Two skills with the same name cannot sit side by side — one of them will be ignored.