Orbit — Claude Code plugin

People search from your agent, packaged as a one-command Claude Code plugin. Install it and you get Orbit's whole workflow inside any Claude Code session: search for people, and build a market map as a folder of markdown notes you can drop straight into Obsidian for a graph view of the market.

The plugin doesn't ship a server: it points Claude Code at Orbit's hosted MCP endpoint, https://api.orbitpeople.ai/mcp, and adds the slash commands and the market-map skill on top.

Install

/plugin marketplace add connect-upskill/orbit-plugin
/plugin install orbit

On first use the orbit MCP server asks you to authenticate in the browser (OAuth) — no API key to paste. If a tool ever reports the server needs authentication, run /mcp, select orbit, and choose Authenticate.

You need an Orbit account — sign up at orbitpeople.ai. There is nothing to configure.

What you get

Slash commands

• /orbit-search <who to find> — run a people search and summarize the results inline.
• /orbit-export <projectId> [md|json|csv] [dir] — write a finished project's results to disk (markdown vault, JSON, or CSV).

Skills

• /orbit:market-map <who to find> [dir] — the headliner. Searches, writes one markdown note per person + an _index.md hub into a folder, and opens Obsidian on top so the market renders as a graph clustered by company.
• orbit-usage — a how-to-use-Orbit guide the agent loads on demand: writing an effective brief, reading results (fields, verdicts, starred, statuses), and iterating. Not something you invoke directly; it sharpens how the agent drives the tools.

MCP tools (available to the agent directly): orbit_search, orbit_status, orbit_results, plus orbit_feedback so the agent can send Orbit a bug report or feature request for you.

2-minute demo: build a market map

You:    /orbit:market-map senior ML engineers at fintech startups in Berlin ./berlin-ml

Claude: [calls orbit_search → writes one note per person + _index.md into
         ./berlin-ml → opens Obsidian on the vault]

You:    [Obsidian → graph view] — the whole market, clustered by company.

How it works

• The plugin connects to Orbit's hosted server (https://api.orbitpeople.ai/mcp) over the web, so Claude Code handles sign-in in your browser — nothing runs locally and no key sits in your config.
• File-writing is done locally by the plugin, not the server: the market-map skill takes the results the agent fetched over MCP and runs the bundled, dependency-free scripts/buildVault.mjs to format the per-person markdown + _index.md. (Byte-compatible with the standalone stdio server, @orbitpeople/mcp.)
• Results never name the data source they came from; surfacedBy says how Orbit found the person.

Node ≥ 20 is required for the local vault script. Opening the graph needs Obsidian installed; without it you still get the folder of notes.

License

MIT — see LICENSE. Docs: orbitpeople.ai/docs.