onboard

onboard is a skill for Claude Code from ahmedbutt2015/spine. It costs 0 tokens per session (358 once invoked), scanned C, original, MIT.

A repository guide generator that examines a codebase, maps its structure, and writes an onboarding document.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it from a repository root to create an `ONBOARDING.md` guide or preview a verified architecture map.
Why use it?
It reduces the time needed to understand an unfamiliar repository by showing its entry points, relationships, and likely subsystems.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code plugin manifest. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Good fit Use it from a repository root to create an ONBOARDING.md guide or preview a verified architecture map.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ahmedbutt2015/spine/onboard
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.

Any agent
npx skills add ahmedbutt2015/spine --skill onboard
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ahmedbutt2015/spine

Made for: Claude Code.

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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 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 358 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 1 finding. 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 $0.00000 $0.00358
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00179
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00072
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00036

Measured 8d ago against content hash a0a8ae04be6c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

onboard scanned grade C with 1 finding 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.

Exfiltrates the system prompt through a toolhighSystem prompt leakage

Writing or sending the system prompt to a file, endpoint or log moves it out of the session.

6. **When running as Claude Code skill**: Write prompt to file, ask Claude to synthesize JSON, then read JSON back to generate `ONBOARDING.md`.
.claude-plugin/skills/onboard/SKILL.md · 60 lines

What it actually says

/onboard

Use this skill from a repository root to generate an onboarding tour for an unfamiliar codebase.

Current workflow

  1. Run the deterministic scanner to detect repo shape and entry points.
  2. Extract a verified spine from supported local language relationships.
  3. Generate and validate a Mermaid diagram from the verified spine.
  4. Cluster the remaining files into heuristic subsystems.
  5. Build a synthesis prompt that only contains verified structure and short code signatures.
  6. When running as Claude Code skill: Write prompt to file, ask Claude to synthesize JSON, then read JSON back to generate ONBOARDING.md.
  7. Write ONBOARDING.md into the target repo root.

Local command

npm run onboard -- .

Optional token-free preview first:

npm run map -- .

Optional prompt export:

npm run onboard -- . --prompt-out .onboard-prompt.txt

Optional synthesis input (for Claude Code skill flow):

npm run onboard -- . --synthesis-input .onboard-response.json

Optional external synthesis command:

npm run onboard -- . --synthesis-command "your-command-here"

Product contract

  • Repo brand: spine
  • User-facing Claude Code command: /onboard
  • Companion map-only command: /map
  • Diagram rule: verified edges only, never guessed
  • Output target: ONBOARDING.md

Launch positioning

The clearest user story is:

  1. /map shows the verified architecture preview
  2. /onboard writes the full guide
  3. .claude/REPO_CONTEXT.md keeps future Claude sessions grounded in the repo
Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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 · 60 lines · 0 tokens per session scan C a0a8ae04be6c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

onboard is a skill published in the GitHub repository ahmedbutt2015/spine (8 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 358 tokens. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (exfiltrates the system prompt through a tool). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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