Skills and Plugins

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Ascendant saves a birth chart once, then answers astrology questions from that stored record instead of recalled positions. It runs as an agent skill in OpenCode, Claude Code, Codex, and any skill-compatible agent.

The workflow has two moves:

1. Save a chart. Give a person's birth data; the skill writes a record to persons/<name>/ and generates the Vedic and KP charts, dashas, and Ashtakavarga its answers draw on. The birth header stays immutable, and confirmed past events accumulate in the record's MEMORY.md.
2. Ask a question. Ask in plain words. The reply leads with the judgment, then shows the method and citations underneath.

Each answer commits to one school. KP (KrishnamurtiVP291, Placidus, Vimshottari) is the default for every question. Parashari (Lahiri, whole-sign, Vimshottari) applies only on an explicit request, where it covers promise, quality, yogas, and divisional charts. The two are never mixed, and the answer states its school, ayanamsa, house system, and dasha system up front.

Three properties keep readings consistent:

• Cited evidence: every claim points to a chart file (path:field) and a guidebook section, so judgments trace to the record, not memory.
• One method per judgment: KP placements are never read with Parashari rules.
• No hedging: when evidence is missing or conflicts block judgment, the skill returns Insufficient evidence: run init or attach X.

The skill declines to time or assert deaths, serious accidents, or severe illnesses.

InstallationCopy Anchor Link

OpenCode PluginCopy Anchor Link

Run:

opencode plugin add opencode-ascendant

Claude Code PluginCopy Anchor Link

Run these commands inside Claude Code:

/plugin marketplace add astro-ascendant/skills
/plugin install ascendant@ascendant
/reload-plugins

Codex PluginCopy Anchor Link

Run:

codex plugin marketplace add astro-ascendant/skills --ref main
codex plugin add ascendant@ascendant

Agent SkillsCopy Anchor Link

From the working directory where you want to use Ascendant, run:

npx skills add astro-ascendant/skills