Agent skill

Guideline Reader

by doordash-oss in doordash-oss/agentic-orchestrator

Navigate the language-specific coding guidelines to follow best practices, idioms, and conventions when writing or reviewing code.

Apache-2.0Auto-check passed

Install Guideline Reader

skills CLI
$ npx skills add doordash-oss/agentic-orchestrator --skill guideline-reader -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install doordash-oss/agentic-orchestrator guideline-reader --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/doordash-oss/agentic-orchestrator.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/guideline-reader .claude/skills/guideline-reader && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
guideline-reader
GitHub stars
112
Token cost
~728 tokens
SKILL.md length
332 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Apache-2.0

At a glance

Navigate the language-specific coding guidelines to follow best practices, idioms, and conventions when writing or reviewing code.

  • Works in 5 steps: Scan the inlined guidelines table in… → Read the index.md for the language you… → Read the category index.md for each… → …
  • SKILL.md covers When to Read Guidelines, How to Navigate and Important Notes
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Guideline Reader is an agent skill from doordash-oss/agentic-orchestrator. Navigate the language-specific coding guidelines to follow best practices, idioms, and conventions when writing or reviewing code.

Its SKILL.md is about 730 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

The repository describes itself as: Turn a goal into a supervised run. The licence is Apache-2.0.

Example prompts

  • “/guideline-reader”

Workflow steps

5 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Scan the inlined guidelines table in your prompt — it shows each language and the path to its index.md
  2. Read the index.md for the language you are working with — it contains a Category Index table with "When to Read" guidance
  3. Read the category index.md for each category relevant to your task (e.g., error-handling/index.md)
  4. Read deeper topic files if the category index references them and they are relevant to your work
  5. Only read what you need — typically 2-4 category files per task

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 853a0a7. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Guideline Reader loads about 728 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 37 tokens; SKILL.md has 332 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~37
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~728

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from doordash-oss/agentic-orchestrator at commit 853a0a7, republished under its Apache-2.0 licence (© doordash-oss). 332 words, ~728 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/guideline-reader/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
guideline-reader
description
Navigate the language-specific coding guidelines to follow best practices, idioms, and conventions when writing or reviewing code.
topics
guidelines, coding standards, best practices, idioms, conventions, error handling, concurrency, naming, testing, style
license
Apache-2.0
provenance
agentic-orchestrator-original

Guideline Reader

You have access to language-specific coding guidelines for the target repository. The guidelines discovery table is already inlined in your prompt under "## Available Language Guidelines" — scan it now to see which languages are available.

The guidelines are organized as a hierarchy of markdown documents. Each language has a top-level index.md that links to category-specific files containing the actual rules. Do not stop at the top-level index — it is an index, not the guidelines themselves.

When to Read Guidelines

Consult the guidelines before you:

SituationRead from these categories
Write new codeAll categories matching the language(s) in use
Handle errorserror-handling/ — wrapping, sentinel errors, error grading
Use goroutines, channels, or mutexesconcurrency/ — patterns, context propagation, synchronization
Name variables, functions, or packagesnaming-and-style/ — naming conventions, formatting rules
Design interfaces or inject dependenciesabstractions/ — composition, interface design, DI patterns
Write or modify teststesting/ — table-driven tests, mocks, benchmarks, fuzz tests
Structure packages or modulesproject-organization/ — package layout, module boundaries
Work with slices, maps, or structsdata-types-and-memory/ — allocation patterns, value vs pointer semantics
Use stdlib packages (io, net/http, etc.)standard-library/ — idiomatic usage of standard library

How to Navigate

  1. Scan the inlined guidelines table in your prompt — it shows each language and the path to its index.md
  2. Read the index.md for the language you are working with — it contains a Category Index table with "When to Read" guidance
  3. Read the category index.md for each category relevant to your task (e.g., error-handling/index.md)
  4. Read deeper topic files if the category index references them and they are relevant to your work
  5. Only read what you need — typically 2-4 category files per task

Important Notes

  • Guidelines are best practices, not absolute rules. If a guideline conflicts with the existing codebase's established patterns, prefer consistency with the codebase.
  • The categories listed above are examples from Go guidelines. Other languages may have different categories — always check the language's index.md first.
  • Do NOT re-read the guidelines discovery table — its content is already inlined in your prompt.

© doordash-oss, Apache-2.0. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/guideline-reader of doordash-oss/agentic-orchestrator.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 853a0a7

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Questions about Guideline Reader

What does Guideline Reader do?

Navigate the language-specific coding guidelines to follow best practices, idioms, and conventions when writing or reviewing code. Guideline Reader is an agent skill from doordash-oss/agentic-orchestrator. Navigate the language-specific coding guidelines to follow best practices, idioms, and conventions when writing or reviewing code.

How do I install Guideline Reader in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add doordash-oss/agentic-orchestrator --skill guideline-reader -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/guideline-reader in doordash-oss/agentic-orchestrator) into .claude/skills/guideline-reader in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Guideline Reader in Codex?

Run `npx skills add doordash-oss/agentic-orchestrator --skill guideline-reader -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/guideline-reader in doordash-oss/agentic-orchestrator) into .agents/skills/guideline-reader in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Guideline Reader in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add doordash-oss/agentic-orchestrator --skill guideline-reader -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/guideline-reader, .gemini/skills/guideline-reader, .github/skills/guideline-reader and .opencode/skills/guideline-reader in your project.

What does Guideline Reader need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Guideline Reader is instructions for the agent only.

Does Guideline Reader access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Guideline Reader safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Guideline Reader use?

Guideline Reader is published under the Apache-2.0 licence (declared in SKILL.md). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Guideline Reader use?

About 728 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 2.9k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Guideline Reader?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Guideline Reader: Breadcrumb Navigation (thedaviddias/Front-End-Checklist, 74k stars), Navigation Landmark (thedaviddias/Front-End-Checklist, 74k stars), Keyboard Navigation (thedaviddias/Front-End-Checklist, 74k stars) and Skip Navigation (thedaviddias/Front-End-Checklist, 74k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Guideline Reader?

doordash-oss (a GitHub organization) maintains it in doordash-oss/agentic-orchestrator, which has 112 GitHub stars. The repository holds 2 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 9, 2026.

Source: doordash-oss/agentic-orchestrator on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.