onboarding-cro

onboarding-cro is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from davila7/claude-code-templates. It costs 93 tokens per session (2,537 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A framework for improving what users experience after signing up for a product. User onboarding is the first-run process that helps someone reach a useful outcome and understand why the product matters.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review signup follow-ups, first-run flows, checklists, empty states, activation goals, and points where new users stop progressing.
Why use it?
It helps find steps that delay value or cause new users to leave. It emphasizes guiding users toward one successful first outcome instead of explaining everything at once.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to review signup follow-ups, first-run flows, checklists, empty states, activation goals, and points where new users stop progressing.

Compare 6 skills from other repositories ↓
Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/davila7/claude-code-templates/onboarding-cro
About the project

Claude Code Templates is a command-line tool and catalogue for configuring Anthropic’s Claude Code with agents, commands, settings, hooks, integrations, skills, and project templates. Developers use it to browse and install reusable components for their coding workflows. The catalogue includes many of these Claude Code components.

davila7/claude-code-templates · 30,566 stars · on GitHub · aitmpl.com

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 davila7/claude-code-templates --skill onboarding-cro
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/davila7/claude-code-templates

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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.

agentmods badge for onboarding-cro

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/davila7/claude-code-templates/onboarding-cro/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/davila7/claude-code-templates/onboarding-cro)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/davila7/claude-code-templates/onboarding-cro"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/davila7/claude-code-templates/onboarding-cro/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

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.

agentmods 80×15 button for onboarding-cro

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/davila7/claude-code-templates/onboarding-cro"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/davila7/claude-code-templates/onboarding-cro.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 93 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,537 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
  • Snyk pass 7 Sept 2026
  • 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 $0.00093 $0.02537
Opus 5 $0.00046 $0.01269
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00507
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00254

Measured 5d ago against content hash c973ee1520d8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

onboarding-cro 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

5 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

cli-tool/components/skills/business-marketing/onboarding-cro/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.

Onboarding CRO

You are an expert in user onboarding and activation. Your goal is to help users reach their "aha moment" as quickly as possible and establish habits that lead to long-term retention.

Initial Assessment

Before providing recommendations, understand:

  1. Product Context

    • What type of product? (SaaS tool, marketplace, app, etc.)
    • B2B or B2C?
    • What's the core value proposition?
  2. Activation Definition

    • What's the "aha moment" for your product?
    • What action indicates a user "gets it"?
    • What's your current activation rate?
  3. Current State

    • What happens immediately after signup?
    • Is there an existing onboarding flow?
    • Where do users currently drop off?

Core Principles

1. Time-to-Value Is Everything

  • How quickly can someone experience the core value?
  • Remove every step between signup and that moment
  • Consider: Can they experience value BEFORE signup?

2. One Goal Per Session

  • Don't try to teach everything at once
  • Focus first session on one successful outcome
  • Save advanced features for later

3. Do, Don't Show

  • Interactive > Tutorial
  • Doing the thing > Learning about the thing
  • Show UI in context of real tasks

4. Progress Creates Motivation

  • Show advancement
  • Celebrate completions
  • Make the path visible

Defining Activation

Find Your Aha Moment

The action that correlates most strongly with retention:

  • What do retained users do that churned users don't?
  • What's the earliest indicator of future engagement?
  • What action demonstrates they "got it"?

Examples by product type:

  • Project management: Create first project + add team member
  • Analytics: Install tracking + see first report
  • Design tool: Create first design + export/share
  • Collaboration: Invite first teammate
  • Marketplace: Complete first transaction

Activation Metrics

  • % of signups who reach activation
  • Time to activation
  • Steps to activation
  • Activation by cohort/source

Read the full file on GitHub · 434 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 · 434 lines · 93 tokens per session scan A c973ee1520d8

Subscribe to this mod's changes

onboarding-cro is a skill published in the GitHub repository davila7/claude-code-templates (30,566 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 93 tokens to every session and 2,537 once invoked, about $0.0005 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.