# Orientation Stage

> Establish authority, trust, intent, and change-directionality, and gather current-system evidence before any planning, emitting a context bundle that is the sole artifact the planning stage reads.

Record: `algorithms:orientation-stage`
Kind: algorithm
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/algorithms#algorithms-orientation-stage
Closure: https://banes-lab.com/json/records/algorithms/orientation-stage/closure

Listed in [Algorithm contracts](https://banes-lab.com/api/records/algorithms.md), after [<Centralization Concern>](https://banes-lab.com/records/algorithms/centralization-concern.md) and before [Authoritative Source Loading](https://banes-lab.com/records/algorithms/authoritative-source-loading.md).

## Domain

- [Checklist creation](https://banes-lab.com/records/algorithms-domain/checklist-creation.md)

## Stage

- [orient](https://banes-lab.com/records/stage/orient.md)

## Axis

- [ontology](https://banes-lab.com/records/reasoning/axis-ontology.md)

## Tier

- [process](https://banes-lab.com/records/vocabulary/domain-tier-process.md)

## Composes

- [Authoritative Source Loading](https://banes-lab.com/records/algorithms/authoritative-source-loading.md)
- [Trust Anchor](https://banes-lab.com/records/algorithms/trust-anchor.md)
- [Intent & Directionality Normalization](https://banes-lab.com/records/algorithms/intent-directionality-normalization.md)
- [Skeptical Context Acquisition](https://banes-lab.com/records/algorithms/skeptical-context-acquisition.md)
- [Dynamic Discovery Pattern Generation](https://banes-lab.com/records/algorithms/dynamic-discovery-pattern-generation.md)

## Composed by

- [Checklist Creation Kernel](https://banes-lab.com/records/algorithms/checklist-creation-kernel.md)

## Named in the derivation of

- [Checklist Creation Kernel](https://banes-lab.com/records/algorithms/checklist-creation-kernel.md)

## Math type

- [Set Theory](https://banes-lab.com/records/reasoning/math-type-set-theory.md)

## Force

- [Control coordination](https://banes-lab.com/records/force/control-coordination.md)
- [Correctness verification](https://banes-lab.com/records/force/correctness-verification.md)
- [Metaprogramming modeling](https://banes-lab.com/records/force/metaprogramming-modeling.md)

## Linked from

- [Checklist creation](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/algorithms/algorithms-domain-checklist-creation.md)
- [The derivation loop](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/reasoning/reasoning-loop-derivation-loop.md)
- [The axes](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/reasoning/the-axes.md)
- [The mathematics](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/reasoning/the-mathematics.md)
- [Domain tiers](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/schema/the-vocabulary-domain-tier.md)
- [The forces](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/schema/the-forces.md)