onboarding-guide-generator

onboarding-guide-generator is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from codebygarv/Ai-skills. It costs 48 tokens per session (507 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill that creates an onboarding guide for a new engineer from a codebase's real setup, structure, important files, and starting points.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to document setup, explain the architecture, point newcomers to key files, and suggest a small first contribution.
Why use it?
It replaces outdated or generic getting-started notes with guidance based on what the project actually contains and runs.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to document setup, explain the architecture, point newcomers to key files, and suggest a small first contribution.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/codebygarv/ai-skills/onboarding-guide-generator
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 codebygarv/Ai-skills --skill onboarding-guide-generator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/codebygarv/Ai-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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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 507 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 $0.00048 $0.00507
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00253
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00101
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00051

Measured 8d ago against content hash 6293edfe2258, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

onboarding-guide-generator 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/productivity/onboarding-guide-generator/SKILL.md · 37 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 37 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Purpose

Generate an onboarding guide for a new engineer joining a project — grounded in the codebase's actual structure and setup, not a generic checklist — so a newcomer can get from "cloned the repo" to "made a first meaningful change" with less hand-holding.

When to Use

  • A project has no onboarding doc, or an outdated one that no longer matches the codebase.
  • Preparing for a new hire or new contributor joining.
  • The user asks for "onboarding docs" or "getting started" documentation for a codebase.

What to Analyze / Do

  1. Determine real setup steps — from the actual package manifest/README/scripts, not assumed commands. Don't invent steps that aren't verifiable from the source.
  2. Summarize the architecture — the major components/services and how they relate, at a level a newcomer needs before diving into any one file.
  3. Identify key files/entry points — where someone would actually start reading to understand how a request flows through the system, or where the main business logic lives.
  4. Suggest a first task — something small, safe, and educational (a small bug fix, adding a test, a minor UI tweak) that touches enough of the codebase to be a genuine learning exercise without being risky.
  5. List where to get help — team channels, key people/maintainers, existing docs — if this information is available/provided.

Output Format

  • Setup — numbered, verified steps (clone, install, run, test).
  • Architecture Overview — brief, diagram-in-words if helpful, of major components.
  • Key Files/Where to Start Reading — a short annotated list.
  • Suggested First Task — one concrete, well-scoped suggestion.
  • Getting Help — only if that information was provided; don't invent contact points.

Avoid

  • Inventing setup commands, scripts, or environment variables that don't exist in the actual project.
  • Writing a generic "welcome to the team" onboarding template with no project-specific substance.
  • Suggesting a first task that's either trivial busywork or risky enough to need heavy review — aim for genuinely educational and safe.

Read the full file on GitHub · 37 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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.

  1. 8d ago First seen · 37 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A 6293edfe2258

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onboarding-guide-generator is a skill published in the GitHub repository codebygarv/Ai-skills (25 stars, last pushed 18d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 507 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 2026-08-30.

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