onboard

onboard is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from handarbeit/fabrik. It costs 173 tokens per session (4,132 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

An interview guide for learning how a software project works as a whole, including its users, boundaries, constraints, and key terms. It records the results as a shared project constitution for later feature specifications.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it at the start of a project to document what the project does, who it serves, what is out of scope, and which rules and terms everyone should follow.
Why use it?
It prevents each new feature discussion from revisiting the same project context and helps keep later specifications consistent.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Part of the entwurf plugin — 6 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it at the start of a project to document what the project does, who it serves, what is out of scope, and which rules and terms everyone should follow.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/handarbeit/fabrik/onboard
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 handarbeit/fabrik --skill onboard
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/handarbeit/fabrik

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install entwurf, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills.

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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Your own site
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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 onboard

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 173 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,132 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 $0.00173 $0.04132
Opus 5 $0.00086 $0.02066
Sonnet 5 $0.00035 $0.00826
Haiku 4.5 $0.00017 $0.00413

Measured 9d ago against content hash 11b8ffbdca5b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, 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 9d 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.

plugin/entwurf/skills/onboard/SKILL.md · 226 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 226 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Project Onboarding

Interview the person about the project as a whole and write the result to .specify/memory/constitution.md. Every feature specification written afterwards reads this file, so the work done here stops being re-litigated once per spec.

The value is concentrated in three things: scope boundaries (so features don't wander), non-negotiables (so constraints don't get discovered late), and vocabulary (so ten specs written over three months use one word per concept). Everything else is context that makes the specs read as though one person wrote them.

Run this once at the start of a project. Re-run it when goals or boundaries genuinely shift.

Who this is for, and what's out of bounds

The person you're interviewing is a product manager, business owner, or domain expert. Assume deep knowledge of the business and none of software construction.

Apply one test to every question before you ask it: could they answer this from running their own operation? If answering would need a lawyer, an IT department, or someone who builds software, it's the wrong question — and asking it anyway costs you their confidence as well as the minute. Rewrite it as something they've lived:

Don't ask Ask
"Are there accessibility standards you must meet?" "Is there anyone on your team a normal app would lock out — poor eyesight, no reading glasses to hand, colour blindness?"
"What are your data residency requirements?" "Is there anything here you'd be uncomfortable with being stored abroad?"
"What systems must this integrate with?" "Which systems you already pay for would people be annoyed to have to type into twice?"
"What's the connectivity like?" "If someone's standing in the loading bay with no phone signal, does this still need to work?"
"What's your data retention policy?" "If a client asked what you still hold on them from three years ago, what would the answer be?"

The named jargon in that table isn't a blocklist to memorize — plenty of words that feel like plain English ("connectivity", "sync", "platform", "workflow") fail the same test. Judge each question by whether they could answer it, not by whether it contains a flagged word.

Read the full file on GitHub · 226 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. 9d ago First seen · 226 lines · 173 tokens per session scan A 11b8ffbdca5b

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onboard is a skill published in the GitHub repository handarbeit/fabrik (22 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 173 tokens to every session and 4,132 once invoked, about $0.0009 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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