onboard

onboard is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from arnabdeypolimi/claude_code_setup. It costs 48 tokens per session (1,818 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of onboard, MIT.

A guide for designing the first steps users take in a product, including onboarding, empty screens, and first-use flows.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan or improve welcome flows, setup steps, empty states, activation paths, and getting-started experiences.
Why use it?
It helps new users understand what to do, avoid getting stuck, and reach the product's useful first outcome sooner.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 48 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,818 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 92% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00048 $0.01818
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00909
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00364
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00182

Measured 3d ago against content hash cd5ec9f3b925, 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 3d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

92% identical to onboard — 15 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.claude/skills/onboard/SKILL.md · 245 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 245 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

MANDATORY PREPARATION

Invoke /frontend-design — it contains design principles, anti-patterns, and the Context Gathering Protocol. Follow the protocol before proceeding — if no design context exists yet, you MUST run /teach-impeccable first. Additionally gather: the "aha moment" you want users to reach, and users' experience level.


Create or improve onboarding experiences that help users understand, adopt, and succeed with the product quickly.

Assess Onboarding Needs

Understand what users need to learn and why:

  1. Identify the challenge:

    • What are users trying to accomplish?
    • What's confusing or unclear about current experience?
    • Where do users get stuck or drop off?
    • What's the "aha moment" we want users to reach?
  2. Understand the users:

    • What's their experience level? (Beginners, power users, mixed?)
    • What's their motivation? (Excited and exploring? Required by work?)
    • What's their time commitment? (5 minutes? 30 minutes?)
    • What alternatives do they know? (Coming from competitor? New to category?)
  3. Define success:

    • What's the minimum users need to learn to be successful?
    • What's the key action we want them to take? (First project? First invite?)
    • How do we know onboarding worked? (Completion rate? Time to value?)

CRITICAL: Onboarding should get users to value as quickly as possible, not teach everything possible.

Onboarding Principles

Follow these core principles:

Show, Don't Tell

  • Demonstrate with working examples, not just descriptions
  • Provide real functionality in onboarding, not separate tutorial mode
  • Use progressive disclosure - teach one thing at a time

Make It Optional (When Possible)

  • Let experienced users skip onboarding
  • Don't block access to product
  • Provide "Skip" or "I'll explore on my own" options

Time to Value

  • Get users to their "aha moment" ASAP
  • Front-load most important concepts
  • Teach 20% that delivers 80% of value
  • Save advanced features for contextual discovery

Read the full file on GitHub · 245 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. 3d ago First seen · 245 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A cd5ec9f3b925

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onboard is a skill published in the GitHub repository arnabdeypolimi/claude_code_setup (4 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 1,818 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 92% identical to onboard, differing in 15 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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