Orient — Productivity skill for Claude Code
Check a task's premise against the repository before any code is written.
How to install Orient
Installs to ~/.claude/commands/waqarqasim-agent-delivery-playbook-orient.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/commands && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/waqarqasim/agent-delivery-playbook/HEAD/.claude/commands/orient.md -o ~/.claude/commands/waqarqasim-agent-delivery-playbook-orient.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Orient does
description: Check a task's premise against the repository before any code is written
Orient on this task before implementing anything: $ARGUMENTS
Answer these four questions **from the repository**, not from the task description. Quote the code you looked at. Do not write any implementation in this pass.
- Does the premise hold? The task asserts something is missing, broken, or unhandled. Find the code that proves or refutes it. If the premise is false — the feature exists
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Full documentation available on GitHub
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