reorient
SolidUse mid-task when the working thread is lost — after a context compaction, a long agent run, or coming back to a feature unsure of the role, the current checkpoint, or the next action. Triggers — "/engineer.reorient", "reorient", "re-anchor", "what should I be doing right now", "I lost track", "where was I".
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# reorient
Restore the working contract mid-task. After a context compaction or a long
run, an agent loses role identity, invents constraints that do not exist, skips
required steps, and loses the task thread. `reorient` reloads the durable state
that should have survived — the discipline contract first, the task pointer
second.
Read-only and advisory. It changes nothing, produces no artifact, and emits
**no handoff** — like `next`, the orientation block is the whole output; a
handoff would only restate it. The third skill exempt from the agentic summary
contract.
`reorient` is the mid-task, feature-scoped counterpart to `next` (project-scoped,
session-start).
## When to use
- Right after a context compaction (a `SessionStart` hook can auto-invoke it).
- Mid-task, when unsure of the role, the current checkpoint, or the next action.
- Returning to a feature after an interruption.
**Not for:** session-start "what should I pick up across the project" (`next`);
loading a feature not yet started (`prime-context`); validating artifacts
(`consistency-check`).
## Workflow
### Step 1 — Resolve and locate
Resolve the methodology root + manifest via
`${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/dae_resolve.py` (see `references/resolving.md`).
Locate the feature (slug arg or branch name). If no feature is in scope, say so
and suggest `next` instead. **Layout disambiguation:** if the project has BOTH a
`features/NNN-*/` and a `specs/NNN-*/` tree (a speckit migration in progress),
say which one ...
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- Author
- swingerman
- Repository
- swingerman/engineer
- Created
- 7 months ago
- Last Updated
- 1 weeks ago
- Language
- Python
- License
- MIT
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