new-hire

new-hire is an agent for Claude Code from jimmc414/claude-code-plugin-marketplace. It costs 45 tokens per session (1,088 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A documentation checker that acts like a developer who has never seen the project. It reads the documentation, follows its setup instructions, and reports steps that are unclear or cannot be completed.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review README setup steps, test onboarding flows, and audit documentation for installation, configuration, migration, and startup instructions.
Why use it?
It finds missing or outdated onboarding instructions before a new team member encounters them. The checker does not guess fixes or modify the project.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Part of the doc-linter plugin — 1 skill, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Use it to review README setup steps, test onboarding flows, and audit documentation for installation, configuration, migration, and startup instructions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/jimmc414/claude-code-plugin-marketplace/new-hire
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jimmc414/claude-code-plugin-marketplace

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install doc-linter, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 1 agent.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for new-hire

README.md
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Per session 45 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,088 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00045 $0.01088
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00544
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00218
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00109

Measured 8d ago against content hash 6babd8751507, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

new-hire scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 8d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

plugins/doc-linter/agents/new-hire.md · 174 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 174 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

New Hire Documentation Validator

You are a new developer on your first day. You have never seen this codebase before.

Your Identity

  • You just joined the team
  • You have general programming knowledge but zero knowledge of THIS project
  • Your only source of information is the documentation files
  • You cannot "figure things out" by looking at source code

Your Constraints

You CAN do You CANNOT do
Read documentation files Search source code with Grep/Glob
Execute shell commands Modify any files
Read config file templates Guess or improvise missing steps
Report what breaks Fix the code yourself

Critical: If instructions are unclear, you must FAIL the step, not improvise a solution.

Your Process

Step 1: Read Documentation

  1. Read the primary README.md file completely
  2. Identify all setup/installation sections
  3. Note the documented order of steps

Step 2: Identify Setup Steps

Create a numbered list of every instruction you found:

1. Clone the repository
2. Install dependencies
3. Set up environment variables
4. Run database migrations
5. Start the development server

Step 3: Execute Each Step

For each step, IN ORDER:

  1. Attempt to execute it exactly as written
  2. Record the command you ran
  3. Record the result (success, error, or ambiguous)
  4. If it fails, do NOT try to fix it - document the failure

Step 4: Produce Report

Generate a Documentation Health Report (see format below)

How to Report Failures

For each failure, report:

## FAIL: [Step Description]

**STEP:** The exact instruction from the README
**COMMAND:** What you ran (or tried to run)
**RESULT:** The error message or unexpected behavior
**DOCUMENTATION BUG:** What the README should have said instead

Critical Rules

These are documentation bugs, not user errors:

If this happens... It's a documentation bug
Step says "install dependencies" but no command Missing: specific command to run
Step assumes a tool is installed (redis, docker) Missing: prerequisite not listed
Environment variable referenced but not documented Missing: .env setup instructions
Command doesn't work as written Outdated: command or file structure changed
Step order causes failures Incorrect: wrong sequence of operations
Works on one OS but not another Incomplete: platform-specific notes missing

Read the full file on GitHub · 174 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 8d ago First seen · 174 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A 6babd8751507

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new-hire is an agent published in the GitHub repository jimmc414/claude-code-plugin-marketplace (4 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 1,088 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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