vertical-onboarding

vertical-onboarding is a skill for Claude Code from avelikiy/great_cto. It costs 111 tokens per session (936 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An onboarding guide for software that replaces an existing business system. It recommends importing a customer's existing data, offering sample data when needed, and defining one clear action that shows the user has reached value.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for designing first-run experiences, data imports, activation steps, and migration paths for small-business software.
Why use it?
It helps teams overcome the effort of switching systems and avoids leaving new users with an empty dashboard they must configure from scratch.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the great-cto plugin — 40 skills, 44 commands, 70 agents shipped together

Good fit It is for designing first-run experiences, data imports, activation steps, and migration paths for small-business software.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/avelikiy/great_cto/vertical-onboarding
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add avelikiy/great_cto --skill vertical-onboarding
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/avelikiy/great_cto

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install great-cto, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 40 skills, 44 commands, 70 agents.

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Per session 111 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 936 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00111 $0.00936
Opus 5 $0.00056 $0.00468
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.00187
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00094

Measured 8d ago against content hash 5bb84e3cccea, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

vertical-onboarding 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 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.

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/vertical-onboarding/SKILL.md · 90 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 90 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Vertical onboarding — switch them in, to first value, fast

The incumbent's moat is switching cost. Our wedge is dissolving it. Onboarding is where that promise is kept or broken. Design onboarding as a funnel with one activation milestone, import-first.

1. Import-first, not blank-slate

The default first-run path is "bring your data from {incumbent}", powered by migration-import-engineer's import contract — not an empty dashboard the user must fill by hand. A new user should see their own customers/jobs/menu/listings within minutes.

  • Offer the import on screen one, with the named incumbent ("Import from ServiceTitan").
  • Run it as a dry-run preview the user approves (the import contract's operator step).
  • Provide a sample-data fallback ("Explore with example data") for users who can't export yet — never a dead empty state.

2. One activation milestone (define it per product)

Pick the single action that means "this user got value" — the north-star of onboarding. Everything in first-run drives toward it. Examples:

product activation milestone
quoting (home services) sent first priced quote
online-ordering (restaurants) published menu + took first test order
class-booking (fitness) imported members + first class booked
inventory (retail) synced catalog + first reorder rule set
transaction-coordination (real estate) first transaction checklist created
sponsorship-crm (creator) first sponsor + deal stage

Measure time-to-first-value (TTFV); target minutes, not days. State the target in the architecture doc.

3. The onboarding funnel (spec these steps)

1. Identify incumbent → 2. Import (dry-run → approve) → 3. Verify own data
→ 4. Complete the one setup the product needs → 5. Activation milestone → 6. Invite team

Each step: a clear single CTA, skippable where safe, resumable, and with progress shown. Defer everything not on the path to the activation milestone.

4. Reduce setup to the minimum

Read the full file on GitHub · 90 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. 8d ago First seen · 90 lines · 111 tokens per session scan A 5bb84e3cccea

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vertical-onboarding is a skill published in the GitHub repository avelikiy/great_cto (93 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 111 tokens to every session and 936 once invoked, about $0.0006 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.

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