onboard

onboard is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from cookys/autopilot. It costs 213 tokens per session (2,329 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A setup tool that creates project-specific configuration for an automation workflow by inspecting a repository.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps detect the package manager, available commands, coverage settings, documentation layout, workspace structure, default branch, protected paths, and installed add-ons, then scaffold configuration from that information.
Why use it?
A new repository may not have known build commands, test expectations, documentation locations, or safety rules.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the autopilot plugin — 32 skills, 3 agents, 7 hooks shipped together

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install autopilot, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 32 skills, 3 agents, 7 hooks.

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.

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README.md
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Per session 213 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,329 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00213 $0.02329
Opus 5 $0.00106 $0.01164
Sonnet 5 $0.00043 $0.00466
Haiku 4.5 $0.00021 $0.00233

Measured 5d ago against content hash 2a004f00da44, 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 5d 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.

platforms/codex/plugin/skills/onboard/SKILL.md · 126 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 126 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Onboard — calibrate autopilot to a consuming project

Turns a repo with no autopilot config into one that speaks its own build commands, coverage thresholds, doc layout, and ecosystem-standalone dispatch chains. The deterministic half is scripted (detect + scaffold); the judgment half is yours (map this project's domain to skills, derive doc⇄code drift domains, name security surfaces). The golden reference output is the hand-built ~/projects/hangar-bridge/.claude/.

Premise: ecosystem-standalone. The scaffolded chains default to autopilot-only (the assumed baseline is autopilot + codeforge + mnemos, no third-party plugins). superpowers is added only as an explicit, commented fallback when the project actually has it installed. Never scaffold a superpowers-first default.

Available Scripts (prefer over LLM judgment for the mechanical half)

Script Role
scripts/project-detect.js Detect (pure read → JSON): package manager, commands (+lint_is_noop), per-package coverage thresholds, doc convention (doc/ vs docs/), workspace/packages, default_branch, protected-path candidates, project paths, installed plugins. Run it FIRST; it owns every mechanical fact.
scripts/scaffold-config.js Scaffold (mechanical write): copies+fills the config set into <target>/.claude/, fills detected values, writes autopilot-only chains when superpowers=false, merge-safely pins CLAUDE_CODE_ENABLE_TODO_TOOLS=1 into .claude/settings.json (task tools are gated off on 5-era models since CC 2.1.233 — without the pin every dev-flow forcing function silently no-ops; an explicit existing value is respected), and updates .gitignore to exclude runtime state while KEEPING *-config.md tracked. Idempotent; --force to clobber a hand-edit; --dry-run to preview.

Workflow

1. Detect (mechanical — run the script, read the JSON)

node <autopilot>/scripts/project-detect.js <target-repo> | tee /tmp/onboard-detect.json

Read the JSON. Sanity-check it against the repo: does package_manager, doc_dir, the coverage table, and default_branch match reality? default_branch is only emitted when the target IS the git top-level; if it is null or wrong (e.g. the repo's origin/HEAD isn't set), note the canonical branch for step 4. Do not re-derive these facts by hand — the detector owns them.

Read the full file on GitHub · 126 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. 5d ago First seen · 126 lines · 213 tokens per session scan A 2a004f00da44

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onboard is a skill published in the GitHub repository cookys/autopilot (11 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 213 tokens to every session and 2,329 once invoked, about $0.0011 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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