An AI Chief of Staff for Claude Code.
Orion turns Claude Code into a structured life and work operating system. It's a vault of skills, agents, and workflows that give Claude persistent memory, daily routines, and the ability to manage your projects, email, calendar, and tasks autonomously.
This is not a framework. It's a working system — a forkable starter kit you adapt to your life.
- Daily briefings that scan your tasks, email, and calendar
- Project management with structured frontmatter and mission files
- 24 slash commands for common workflows (triage, email, meetings, reviews)
- 5 specialized agents for parallel work (research, outreach, architecture, strategy)
- Session memory that persists across conversations
- Autonomous execution on tasks you delegate
Ruthlessly archive what isn't going anywhere. Ruthlessly drive forward what matters.
- Everything is a Project until archived
- Max 5 focus items — prioritize brutally
- The Daily Briefing is the single source of truth
- Only surface decisions that need human judgment
- Draft ready-to-send outputs, not research summaries
- Listen before acting — discuss strategy before executing
Orion/
├── Cockpit/ # Daily operations hub (start here)
│ ├── Daily-Briefing.md # Today's focus (30-sec scan)
│ ├── This-Week.md # Sprint view
│ ├── Pending-Decisions.md # Needs your brain
│ ├── Context.md # High-level snapshot
│ └── Rules.md # Your operating principles
│
├── Projects/ # All active work
│ └── _template/ # Copy this for new projects
│ ├── README.md # Status, goals, links
│ └── Agent/
│ └── Mission.md # Working task list
│
├── Operations/Claude/ # The engine
│ ├── skills/ # Slash commands (organized by category)
│ ├── agents/ # Specialized AI personas
│ ├── rules/ # Behavioral guidelines
│ └── setup/ # Bootstrap scripts
│
├── Journal/ # Reflections & work log
│ ├── personal/ # Daily personal entries
│ └── work/ # Work journal & weekly recaps
│
├── Knowledge/ # Reference material
├── Inbox/ # Zero-friction capture zone
├── Personal/ # Life stuff
└── Archive/ # Dormant projects
git clone https://github.com/{YOUR_USERNAME}/Orion.git ~/OrionEdit CLAUDE.md and replace the {PLACEHOLDERS}:
{YOUR_NAME}— your name{YOUR_EMAIL}— your primary email{YOUR_LOCATION}— city/region{YOUR_TIMEZONE}— IANA timezone (e.g.,Europe/London)
cd ~/Orion/Operations/Claude/setup
./setup-machine.sh ~/OrionThis creates symlinks, generates ~/.claude/settings.json, and wires everything up. It's idempotent — safe to re-run.
Orion is powered by MCP (Model Context Protocol) integrations. We use super-mcp to manage multiple MCP servers from a single config.
See Operations/Claude/setup/MCP-GUIDE.md for full setup instructions.
Recommended integrations:
- Email — Gmail MCP or similar
- Tasks — TickTick, Todoist, or Linear MCP
- Calendar — Google Calendar MCP
- Search — Exa or web search MCP
cd ~/Orion
claudeThen try:
/briefing— get your daily update/triage— prioritize your week/consult <topic>— brainstorm with an expert
| Category | Skills | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Operations | briefing, triage, hygiene, slipping, review, recap, advance, hustle, project-setup, email, inbox-file, extract-entities, wrap | Daily routines, project management, email processing |
| Thinking | consult, devils-advocate, thinking-techniques | Brainstorming, stress-testing, problem-solving |
| Meetings | meeting-prep, meeting-follow-up | Before/after meeting workflows |
| Personal | journal, children | Daily reflection, family logging |
| Documentation | write-planning-doc, write-skill | Planning docs, new skill creation |
| Research | web-researcher | Multi-query web research |
| System | list-extensions | Show available commands |
Agents are specialized personas launched via the Task tool for parallel work:
| Agent | Purpose |
|---|---|
| architect | System design, MVP architecture, simplification |
| pm | Project management, team coordination |
| outreach | Cold emails, pitches, partnership messages |
| gtm-strategist | Go-to-market, positioning, channel strategy |
| market-researcher | Targets, contacts, competitors, market data |
Add your own agents for your domain — dev, design, legal, whatever you need. See Customization below.
Every active project gets structured frontmatter:
---
priority: this-month # this-month | next-month | later
goal: "Ship MVP by March"
next-step: "Build landing page"
next-step-owner: odin # odin = AI can do it autonomously
last-advanced: 2026-03-01
---Projects with priority: this-month get an Agent/Mission.md — the working task list with goals, priority stack, blockers, and session notes.
The /review skill loops through all active plates weekly. /advance deep-dives into a single project.
Orion uses a tiered memory system:
| Scope | Location | What Goes Here |
|---|---|---|
| Global behavior | ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md |
Cross-project rules, tool preferences |
| Vault-wide | Cockpit/claude-memory/MEMORY.md |
Cross-cutting context (auto-loaded) |
| Per-project | Projects/{name}/README.md |
Project status, goals, contacts |
| Per-repo technical | Per-repo MEMORY.md |
API gotchas, env patterns |
The /wrap skill routes new learnings to the correct tier at session end.
# 1. Create the skill file
mkdir -p Operations/Claude/skills/mycategory/myskill
# Write your SKILL.md (use /write-skill for proper format)
# 2. Symlink it for Claude Code discovery
cd Operations/Claude/commands
ln -s ../skills/mycategory/myskill/SKILL.md myskill.mdSkills use [BRACKET] sections and support tool declarations. See /write-skill for the format.
Add tech stack rules: Create files in Operations/Claude/rules/ for your stack (e.g., python.md, rust.md). They're auto-loaded based on file patterns.
Add agents: Create .md files in Operations/Claude/agents/ with persona descriptions. Claude uses them via the Task tool.
Add MCP integrations: Edit ~/.super-mcp/config.json to add new MCP servers. See the MCP guide.
Change the persona: Edit the [PERSONA] section in CLAUDE.md. Make it yours.
If you forked from the upstream Orion repo:
git remote add upstream https://github.com/{UPSTREAM}/Orion.git
git fetch upstream
git merge upstream/main # resolve conflicts in your personalized filesBuilt on Claude Code by Anthropic.
MCP integrations via super-mcp.
Inspired by the AI-first development methodology of Greg Detre.
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