The reading order for Open Data Capture — what to run first, which docs to open in what order, and every repo skill in one place.

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Install Odc Orientation

skills CLI
$ npx skills add DouglasNeuroInformatics/OpenDataCapture --skill odc-orientation -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install DouglasNeuroInformatics/OpenDataCapture odc-orientation --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/DouglasNeuroInformatics/OpenDataCapture.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/.agents/skills/odc-orientation .claude/skills/odc-orientation && 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
odc-orientation
GitHub stars
119
Token cost
~2k tokens
SKILL.md length
906 words
Files
2
Skills in repo
16
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Apache-2.0

At a glance

The reading order for Open Data Capture — what to run first, which docs to open in what order, and every repo skill in one place.

  • Works in 5 steps: Bring the stack up before you read… → Learn which workspace owns the change —… → Learn what is checked and what is not —… → …
  • Development work in your project
  • SKILL.md covers The reading order, Three landmines, Every skill in this repo and When you learn something this…
  • Calls pnpm

What it does

Odc Orientation is an agent skill from DouglasNeuroInformatics/OpenDataCapture. The reading order for Open Data Capture — what to run first, which docs to open in what order, and every repo skill in one place.

Its SKILL.md is about 2k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 2 other files (for example `agents/openai.yaml`).

It sits in Development. The repository describes itself as: An electronic data capture platform for administering remote and in-person clinical instruments. The licence is Apache-2.0.

When your agent uses it

  • Development work in your project

Example prompts

  • “/odc-orientation”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Bring the stack up before you read anything else — .agents/skills/odc-run-locally/SKILL.md.
  2. Learn which workspace owns the change — .agents/docs/workspace-map.md. The "Where to look"
  3. Learn what is checked and what is not — .agents/docs/architecture/testing-strategy.md. Green
  4. Read the failures once, cold — .agents/skills/odc-debugging/SKILL.md. It is a symptom index,
  5. Then, per change: skill → playbook → workspace AGENTS.md → .agents/skills/odc-done/SKILL.md.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 432dec8. 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

    Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

    • pnpm

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

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md. Its commands use pnpm, which can reach the network depending on how they are called.

    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

Odc Orientation loads about 2k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 36 tokens; SKILL.md has 906 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~36
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~2k

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 DouglasNeuroInformatics/OpenDataCapture at commit 432dec8, republished under its Apache-2.0 licence (© DouglasNeuroInformatics). 906 words, ~2,034 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/odc-orientation/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 1 other file; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
odc-orientation
description
The reading order for Open Data Capture — what to run first, which docs to open in what order, and every repo skill in one place.
disable-model-invocation
true

Root AGENTS.md is already in context and says where everything is documented. This file adds the two things it cannot: the order to read it in, and the index of skills.

The reading order

  1. Bring the stack up before you read anything else — .agents/skills/odc-run-locally/SKILL.md. Nothing here is verifiable until a dev server serves, four prerequisites have to hold first, and each one fails as a decoy that names something other than itself. A cold checkout that looks broken is usually a checkout that has never run pnpm build.

  2. Learn which workspace owns the change — .agents/docs/workspace-map.md. The "Where to look" table in root AGENTS.md sends you to the right AGENTS.md once you know the area; the map is what tells you which of the 27 first-party workspaces — and which of six similarly-named runtime-* packages — the change belongs in before you open one.

  3. Learn what is checked and what is not — .agents/docs/architecture/testing-strategy.md. Green carries less information here than in most repos: the only type-check is the tsc inside pnpm lint, several workspaces contribute no vitest project at all, and CI fires on a pull request rather than on a push. Read this before you trust a passing run.

  4. Read the failures once, cold — .agents/skills/odc-debugging/SKILL.md. It is a symptom index, and an index earns its keep only when you have seen the rows before you need them. The three that cost the most are below.

  5. Then, per change: skill → playbook → workspace AGENTS.md → .agents/skills/odc-done/SKILL.md. Four files, four different jobs — the skill carries the trap, the playbook the order of operations, the AGENTS.md the conventions, and odc-done the close-out. Skipping any one of them still compiles, which is why the order is written down.

Three landmines

  • An omitted ability reads every group's rows. accessibleQuery(undefined, …) returns {} — an empty Prisma where — and no compiler, eslint rule or unit test stands behind it (.agents/skills/odc-api/SKILL.md).
  • A test file in a workspace with no vitest.config.ts is collected by nothing. It reports the behaviour as covered, names no error, and passes CI green (.agents/skills/odc-testing/SKILL.md).
  • TS2345 on a route literal you just wrote is the correct state, not a defect to chase: route-tree.ts is generated and git-tracked, and the user regenerates it (.agents/skills/odc-web-route/SKILL.md).

Those three recur. .agents/skills/odc-debugging/SKILL.md keys roughly twenty more to the symptom actually in front of you, and names the file that owns each fix.

Every skill in this repo

Each lives at .agents/skills/<name>/SKILL.md. The third column is there because the near-miss is the expensive mistake: the wrong skill answers truthfully, just not the question you asked.

SkillReach for it whenNot this
odc-run-locallyBringing the stack up, a fresh clone, or a dev server that dies at startupNot a failure that happens after the server serves — odc-debugging
odc-debuggingA failing build, lint, test or e2e run; a change with no visible effect; a suite that stays green after you broke the codeNot a method — it is this repo's symptoms, each keyed to the file that owns the fix
odc-apiapps/api — an endpoint, a @RouteAccess value, accessibleQuery scoping, a Prisma model — and an environment variable anywhereNot the permission model itself — .agents/docs/architecture/auth-and-permissions.md
odc-web-routeA file under apps/web/src/routes, its loader, or the query hook it prefetchesNot the components the page renders — odc-frontend
odc-frontendReact UI in apps/web, apps/gateway or packages/react-core: a component, its strings, its story, its promotion to react-coreNot the route file that renders the component — odc-web-route
odc-testingChoosing the tier, placing the test file, and proving the run collected itNot how to drive a change test-first — tdd
odc-instrumentsInstruments, the wrappers under vendor/, and the runtime workspaces they are served fromNot the rules for authoring an instrument definition — packages/instrument-guidelines/AGENTS.md
odc-releaseBumping the version, publishing npm and the images, tagging — or a merge to main that produced no releaseNot what CI gates in general — .agents/docs/architecture/testing-strategy.md
odc-doneThe code is written and you are about to commit, open a PR, or report it doneNot a judgment of the code — it establishes the change is complete, not that it is good
odc-agent-docsWriting or correcting an AGENTS.md, a playbook, an architecture doc or the workspace mapNot writing a skill — writing-great-skills
systematic-debuggingThe method itself: reproduce it, find the root cause, fix thatNot repo knowledge — it supplies the loop that odc-debugging supplies the facts for
tddDriving a feature or a bug fix red-green-refactorNot where a test file goes in this repo, or whether anything collects it — odc-testing
review-prTriaging open pull requests — one verdict each, and which ones need the userNot your own uncommitted diff — code-review
code-reviewReviewing the working diff since a fixed point, on Standards and on SpecNot triage of what is open on GitHub — review-pr
opening-issuesFiling a GitHub issue, or labelling one, with its type, priority, difficulty and areaNot pull requests — odc-open-pr
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When you learn something this file could not tell you

A fact you needed and could not find is a defect in the documentation rather than a gap in your memory, and the moment you have just paid for it is the cheapest moment to land it. .agents/skills/odc-agent-docs/SKILL.md decides which file owns it — root AGENTS.md, a workspace AGENTS.md, a playbook, an architecture doc, or a skill — and carries the grep that proves it ended up in exactly one of them. A skill added or renamed moves the table above too, which is a row of that skill's own "Tables that move together".

© DouglasNeuroInformatics, 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

SKILL.md and 1 other file in .agents/skills/odc-orientation of DouglasNeuroInformatics/OpenDataCapture.

  • SKILL.md
  • agents/openai.yaml

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 432dec8

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Questions about Odc Orientation

What does Odc Orientation do?

The reading order for Open Data Capture — what to run first, which docs to open in what order, and every repo skill in one place. Odc Orientation is an agent skill from DouglasNeuroInformatics/OpenDataCapture. The reading order for Open Data Capture — what to run first, which docs to open in what order, and every repo skill in one place.

When should I use Odc Orientation?

Odc Orientation fits situations like: development work in your project.

How do I install Odc Orientation in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add DouglasNeuroInformatics/OpenDataCapture --skill odc-orientation -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (.agents/skills/odc-orientation in DouglasNeuroInformatics/OpenDataCapture) into .claude/skills/odc-orientation in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Odc Orientation in Codex?

Run `npx skills add DouglasNeuroInformatics/OpenDataCapture --skill odc-orientation -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (.agents/skills/odc-orientation in DouglasNeuroInformatics/OpenDataCapture) into .agents/skills/odc-orientation in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Odc Orientation 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 DouglasNeuroInformatics/OpenDataCapture --skill odc-orientation -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/odc-orientation, .gemini/skills/odc-orientation, .github/skills/odc-orientation and .opencode/skills/odc-orientation in your project.

What does Odc Orientation need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Odc Orientation needs the command-line tools its instructions call (pnpm).

Does Odc Orientation 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 Odc Orientation 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 Odc Orientation use?

Odc Orientation is published under the Apache-2.0 licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Odc Orientation use?

About 2k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 8.1k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

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Who maintains Odc Orientation?

DouglasNeuroInformatics (a GitHub organization) maintains it in DouglasNeuroInformatics/OpenDataCapture, which has 119 GitHub stars. The repository holds 16 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 7, 2026.

Source: DouglasNeuroInformatics/OpenDataCapture on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.