orient-repolisted

# Orient in a repo Use this skill to **align with a project's conventions before acting** — so the first change an agent makes already fits how the project wants work done. Read and internalize the project's governance before reacting to it, rather than discovering the conventions by violating them. It is deliberately **agent-agnostic**: it does not assume the host auto-loaded any particular file, and it hunts the surfaces a given host would otherwise miss (a Claude agent may see `CLAUDE.md` but not `AGENTS.md`; a Cursor agent may see neither). Governing intuition: **state what the project actually declares and enforces, and state what it does not.** Do not invent a convention the repo never set; an unstated rule is a gap to report, not a default to assume. **Input**: the repository to orient in — by default the current working directory; if pointed at a subdirectory (e.g. a monorepo subpackage), sweep upward to the repository root as well, since host-neutral governance often lives above the target. Sweep the host-neutral governance surfaces regardless of what the host auto-loaded. **Boundary**: reads and reports — produces a working brief, not code changes; does not edit, commit, or change state. ## Workflow ### Phase 0: Discover the governance and convention surface Sweep the host-neutral locations — agent/assistant guides, project documentation, ownership and process, any memory/notes directory, and the enforcement config — using [references/discovery-surfaces.md](r