onboard

onboard is a command for coding agents from xiaolai/mac-it-guy-pro. It costs 34 tokens per session (1,782 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A first-visit computer checkup for Mac that observes the machine, builds a profile, and asks a few personal setup questions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to record the computer’s condition, preferences, backups, files, and other practical details before choosing next steps.
Why use it?
It helps someone who does not know technical computer details get useful guidance from evidence instead of having to diagnose the machine themselves.

Command

Installs and runs on its own, but its text points at files inside its plugin — anything it tells you to read at a ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} path is only there once the plugin is installed. Installing the plugin gets both.

Part of the mac-it-guy-pro plugin — 8 skills, 12 commands, 4 agents, 2 hooks shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/xiaolai/mac-it-guy-pro/onboard
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/xiaolai/mac-it-guy-pro

Or install mac-it-guy-pro, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills, 12 commands, 4 agents, 2 hooks.

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 onboard

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/xiaolai/mac-it-guy-pro/onboard.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/commands/xiaolai/mac-it-guy-pro/onboard)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/commands/xiaolai/mac-it-guy-pro/onboard"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/xiaolai/mac-it-guy-pro/onboard.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 34 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,782 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00034 $0.01782
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00891
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00356
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00178

Measured 4d ago against content hash 1191f20a8d48, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

onboard 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 4d 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/onboard.md · 71 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 71 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Onboard — the IT guy's first visit

Read ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/it-core/SKILL.md and ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/machine-profile/SKILL.md first — the safety contract and profile schema are binding. If uname is not Darwin, say this version supports Mac only and stop.

Principle: the machine is the interview. The user likely knows their computer only through Office-style apps — do not ask them questions about it. A real IT guy looks at the machine: the Desktop, the Downloads folder, and the backup status say more than any questionnaire. Everything is observed with read-only scans; the user is asked one short round of questions and nothing about their computer.

Tone: a friendly professional making a house call — no jargon, no lectures, no quiz.

Step 1: Check for an existing profile

If ~/ITGuy/machine.md exists, show its Updated: line and use AskUserQuestion: update the existing profile (default) or start over. Starting over moves the old machine.md to the Trash first (never rm — safety contract rule 2).

Step 2: Observe the machine

Dispatch the mac-it-guy-pro:diagnostician agent (via Task) for all six diagnostic areas plus the behavior area: Desktop composition and screenshot pileup, Downloads size/age/composition, dominant file types across Documents, Desktop, and Downloads. The behavior evidence is what replaces interview questions — it reveals what the user actually does and which chores are piling up.

Step 3: The one question round — names and language

Introduce yourself in two plain sentences: "I'm your IT guy — I look after this Mac and remember everything between visits. Call me out anytime, in any conversation, by typing _it — the underscore is what keeps the everyday word 'it' from summoning me by accident."

Then ask — one AskUserQuestion call carrying all three questions, not three rounds:

  1. "What would you like to call me?" Offer two or three plain first names and "No name needed". The built-in Other option takes anything. Say in one clause that naming him also gives him a second way to be called.

Read the full file on GitHub · 71 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. 4d ago First seen · 71 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A 1191f20a8d48

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onboard is a command published in the GitHub repository xiaolai/mac-it-guy-pro (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 1,782 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.