What is guiding-users?

A guide to helping people learn and use a product through tours, tutorials, tooltips, checklists, help panels, and step-by-step setup flows.

Use it to build onboarding tours, interactive tutorials, feature announcements, contextual help, setup checklists, help systems, and accessible guided workflows.

It reduces the confusion new users face and makes unfamiliar features easier to discover without showing everything at once.

guiding-users — Skill for Claude Code by ancoleman

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 ancoleman/ai-design-components --skill guiding-users

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ancoleman/ai-design-components

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ui-content-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills.

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.

README.md

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Your own site

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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 78 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 2,931 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00078	$0.02931
Opus 5.5	$0.00031	$0.01172
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00016	$0.00586
Haiku 4.5	$0.00008	$0.00293

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 21a2bc1ee8d1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

guiding-users 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 1mo ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 3 executable files (scripts/analyze_onboarding_metrics.py, scripts/generate_tour_config.js, scripts/validate_accessibility.js), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

skills/guiding-users/SKILL.md · 434 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 434 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Guiding Users Through Onboarding and Help Systems

Purpose

This skill provides systematic patterns for onboarding users and delivering contextual help, from first-time product tours to ongoing feature discovery. It covers the complete spectrum of user guidance mechanisms, ensuring optimal user activation, feature adoption, and self-service support.

When to Use

Activate this skill when:

Building first-time user experiences or product tours
Implementing feature discovery and announcements
Creating interactive tutorials or guided tasks
Adding tooltips, hints, or contextual help
Designing setup flows or completion checklists
Building help panels or documentation systems
Implementing progressive disclosure patterns
Measuring onboarding effectiveness and user activation
Ensuring onboarding accessibility

Quick Decision Framework

Select the appropriate guidance mechanism based on user state and content type:

First-time user          → Product Tour (step-by-step)
New feature launch       → Feature Spotlight (tooltip + animation)
Complex workflow         → Interactive Tutorial (guided tasks)
Account setup            → Checklist (progress tracking)
Contextual help needed   → Tooltip/Hint system
Ongoing support          → Help Panel (sidebar/searchable)
Feature unlock           → Progressive Disclosure

Reference references/selection-framework.md for detailed selection criteria.

Core Guidance Mechanisms

Product Tours

Step-by-step walkthroughs that guide users through key features:

Sequential spotlights with modal overlays
Progress indicators (Step 2 of 5)
Skip, Previous, and Next controls
Dismiss and resume capability
Context-sensitive activation

Implementation:

npm install react-joyride

See examples/first-time-tour.tsx for complete implementation. Reference references/product-tours.md for patterns and best practices.

Feature Spotlights

Announce new features to existing users:

Pulsing hotspot animations
Contextual tooltip with arrow
"Got it" acknowledgment
Auto-dismiss after first view
Non-blocking overlay

Read the full file on GitHub · 434 lines

Files

What ships with it

27 files 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.

1mo ago First seen · 434 lines · 78 tokens per session scan A 21a2bc1ee8d1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

guiding-users is a skill published in the GitHub repository ancoleman/ai-design-components (524 stars, last pushed 10mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 78 tokens to every session and 2,931 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.

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