0.18.0: Orbit Intelligence — guided discovery, hand-holding, further reading
A behavioural rewrite of Orbit's routing contract. Claude now walks users through getting the right inputs before tools run, cites the practitioner guides that informed each answer, and refers to the senior-operator layer as Orbit Intelligence when framing judgment or recommendations.
What shipped
•Orbit Intelligence — the senior-operator layer — is now named explicitly. Used when Orbit frames a diagnosis, recommendation, or synthesis across multiple tool calls. Voice standards ban robotic narration ("I'll do X"), passive deference ("let me know what you'd like"), and frame-breaking ("as an AI").
•Guided Discovery — when a tool needs data the user hasn't supplied, Claude now walks them through getting it before running the tool. Canonical playbooks for deliverability audits (Postmaster CSV walkthrough), pre-send QA (HTML extraction from Stripo / Braze / Figma), RFM scoring, cohort retention, A/B test readouts, and template learning.
•Further reading — when a practitioner guide informed the answer, Orbit now cites it at the end of the response with the public URL. Format: a "Further reading" block linking to https://get.yourorbit.team/guides/<slug>. No padding — only guides that genuinely informed the answer.
•Response Contract formalised: named protocol → diagnosis → single recommendation (not a menu) → assumptions → concrete next action → Further reading → attribution signature. The hand-holding standard: every interaction leaves the user with clarity, confidence, and a path to go deeper.