onboarding-cro

onboarding-cro is a cursor rule for Cursor from rajitsaha/100xprism. It costs 30 tokens per session (1,264 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for improving the first experience users have after signing up for a software product. It focuses on helping users reach the product's main benefit quickly and understand what to do next.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define activation, improve signup and first-run flows, design interactive onboarding, and identify where new users stop progressing.
Why use it?
It helps remove unnecessary steps and confusion that can prevent new users from becoming active customers.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Written for Cursor: installed under .cursor/.

Good fit Use it to define activation, improve signup and first-run flows, design interactive onboarding, and identify where new users stop progressing.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/rajitsaha/100xprism/onboarding-cro
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/rajitsaha/100xprism

Made for: Cursor.

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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.

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README.md
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Per session 30 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,264 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 $0.00030 $0.01264
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00632
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00253
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00126

Measured 5d ago against content hash c8983f2d354a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

onboarding-cro 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 5d 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.

.cursor/rules/onboarding-cro.mdc · 168 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 168 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Onboarding CRO

Get users to their "aha moment" fast and build habits that drive long-term retention.

Initial Assessment

Product context: If .agents/product-marketing-context.md exists (or .claude/product-marketing-context.md in older setups), read it first and tailor output to it; only ask for what it doesn't cover.

Understand first:

  1. Product Context - product type? B2B or B2C? Core value proposition?
  2. Activation Definition - the "aha moment"? What action shows a user "gets it"?
  3. Current State - what happens after signup? Where do users drop off?

Core Principles

  1. Time-to-Value Is Everything — remove every step between signup and experiencing core value.
  2. One Goal Per Session — focus the first session on one successful outcome; save advanced features for later.
  3. Do, Don't Show — interactive > tutorial; doing the thing > learning about the thing.
  4. Progress Creates Motivation — show advancement, celebrate completions, make the path visible.

Defining Activation

Find Your Aha Moment

The action most strongly correlated with retention: what retained users do that churned users don't; the earliest indicator of future engagement.

Examples by product type:

  • Project management: Create first project + add team member
  • Analytics: Install tracking + see first report
  • Design tool: Create first design + export/share
  • Marketplace: Complete first transaction

Activation metrics: % of signups reaching activation, time to activation, steps to activation, activation by cohort/source.


Onboarding Flow Design

Immediate Post-Signup (First 30 Seconds)

Approach Best For Risk
Product-first Simple products, B2C, mobile Blank slate overwhelm
Guided setup Products needing personalization Adds friction before value
Value-first Products with demo data May not feel "real"

Read the full file on GitHub · 168 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. 5d ago First seen · 168 lines · 30 tokens per session scan A c8983f2d354a

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onboarding-cro is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository rajitsaha/100xprism (10 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 1,264 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 2026-09-03.