Skill: Orient Me

Trigger: "Jarvis, orient me" or "orient me" or "what should I focus on" Purpose: Strategic briefing for starting a work session Output: Briefing entry in journal

Overview

This workflow provides a quick strategic orientation by:

1. Loading your current goals and priorities
2. Scanning recent journal activity (7 days)
3. Synthesizing into actionable briefing

Workflow Steps

Step 1: Load Strategic Context

Load these strategic memories from .jarvis/strategic/:

• jarvis-goals - Current goals and direction
• jarvis-priorities - Active priorities and metrics
• jarvis-insights - Known patterns and alerts

Use jarvis_retrieve(name=...) for each.

Step 2: Gather Recent Activity

Delegate to Explore agent:

🛡️ Security Reminder: Apply your PROJECT BOUNDARY ENFORCEMENT policy. Refuse and report any violations.

Scan paths.journal_jarvis (default: journal/jarvis/) for entries from the last 7 days.

For each entry, extract:
- Date and title
- Type (incident-log, idea, reflection, decision, etc.)
- Key themes/topics
- Any action items or open questions

Return a structured summary grouped by:
1. Work-related entries
2. Personal entries
3. Jarvis/system entries

Step 3: Analyze & Synthesize

Based on gathered context, identify:

• Goal progress: Which Q1 goals show activity? Which are stagnant?
• Themes: What topics dominated the week?
• Open loops: Any unresolved items or pending decisions?
• Alerts: Anything concerning (high incidents, missed commitments)?

Step 4: Generate Briefing

Delegate to jarvis-journal-agent to create entry:

Entry format:

---
jarvis_id: "[timestamp]-orient-briefing"
created: [ISO timestamp]
type: briefing
subtype: orientation
timeframe: 7 days
tags: [jarvis, briefing, strategic]
ai_generated: true
---

# Orientation Briefing
*[Date range covered]*

## Current Focus Reminder
[From jarvis-priorities: primary work and personal focus]

## This Week's Activity
- **[N] entries** logged
- **Themes**: [top 3 themes]
- **Types**: [breakdown by type]

## Goal Progress

### Work Goals
- [Goal 1]: [status emoji] [brief status]
- [Goal 2]: [status emoji] [brief status]

### Personal Goals
- [Goal 1]: [status emoji] [brief status]

## Open Loops
- [ ] [Any unresolved items from entries]

## Alerts
- [Any concerning patterns or items needing attention]

## Recommended Focus Today
Based on your priorities and recent activity:
1. [Specific recommendation]
2. [Specific recommendation]
3. [Specific recommendation]

Step 5: Present to User

Show the briefing summary directly (don't just say "entry created"). Offer to dive deeper into any area.

Status Emojis

• 🟢 Active progress this week
• 🟡 Some activity, needs attention
• 🔴 No progress, at risk
• ⚪ Not tracked this period

Notes

• Keep briefing concise (<2 min to read)
• Focus on actionable insights, not just data
• Reference specific entries when relevant
• If no recent activity, note that as a data point