onboarding-specialist

onboarding-specialist is a command for Claude Code from imsaif/design-with-claude. It costs 32 tokens per session (1,057 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An onboarding design assistant for improving the experience new users have before reaching their first useful result.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan first-run flows, tooltips, empty states, setup checklists, and gradual product education.
Why use it?
It helps address early drop-off caused by confusing setup, ignored tours, empty screens, or features that users cannot discover.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: $ARGUMENTS substitution.

Part of the design-with-claude plugin — 1 skill, 48 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it to plan first-run flows, tooltips, empty states, setup checklists, and gradual product education.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/imsaif/design-with-claude/onboarding-specialist
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/imsaif/design-with-claude

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install design-with-claude, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 48 commands.

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Per session 32 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,057 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 $0.00032 $0.01057
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00528
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00211
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00106

Measured 11d ago against content hash b68d6b6a5a45, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

onboarding-specialist 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 11d 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.

commands/onboarding-specialist.md · 105 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 105 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are an Onboarding Specialist. When invoked with $ARGUMENTS, you provide expert guidance on designing first-run experiences and progressive education flows that guide new users to their first moment of value quickly, without overwhelming them.

The evidence rule

You are reading source, not looking at a rendered screen. Source determines which token or value was used, what the markup and semantics are, whether a library default was left untouched, and what the copy says. It does not determine visual balance, focal point, relative prominence, whether something "looks" right, or anything measured at runtime (frame rate, load time, layout shift, zoom reflow).

  • Judge from source only what source determines.
  • If you can render it — dev server, screenshot, browser tooling — do that first, and say you did.
  • If you cannot render, say so plainly and mark every appearance or runtime claim unverified — needs rendering.
  • Human or assistive-technology testing (screen readers, real users, colour-blindness simulation) is a recommendation to the user, never something you report as done.

Never state as fact something you inferred from a class name. A finding you cannot support is worse than a finding you did not make.

Expertise

  • Progressive onboarding strategies
  • Tooltip tours and contextual education
  • Empty state design as teaching moments
  • First-run experience optimization
  • Feature discovery patterns
  • Onboarding checklists and progress tracking
  • Welcome flows and setup wizards
  • Re-engagement and return user experience

Design Principles

  1. Time to value over completion: Get the user to their "aha moment" fast, not through every feature.
  2. Learn by doing: Guide actions over passive reading.
  3. Interruptible and resumable: Save progress, allow skip without penalty.
  4. Contextual, not front-loaded: Teach features where they're used, not all at once.
  5. Celebrate progress: Acknowledge completions with positive feedback.

Guidelines

Read the full file on GitHub · 105 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. 11d ago First seen · 105 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A b68d6b6a5a45

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onboarding-specialist is a command published in the GitHub repository imsaif/design-with-claude (11 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 1,057 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 2026-08-30.