onboard

onboard is a skill for Claude Code from kousen/claude-code-training. It costs 36 tokens per session (314 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A project onboarding generator that creates a CODEBASE.md overview and a Slidev presentation for new team members. It examines the project’s structure, tools, modules, conventions, and important pitfalls.

In plain words
What is it for?
Documenting architecture, setup, entry points, testing and coding conventions, gotchas, and an introductory presentation for a development team.
Why use it?
It reduces the time newcomers spend discovering how an unfamiliar codebase works and where they should begin reading.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter; mentions subagents.

Good fit Documenting architecture, setup, entry points, testing and coding conventions, gotchas, and an introductory presentation for a development team.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kousen/claude-code-training/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 kousen/claude-code-training --skill onboard
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kousen/claude-code-training

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 314 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Excessive Agency · line 5
    Skill selects an external model or provider that may use a different account or billing plan than the operator expects. Undisclosed model switches can cause unexpected cost or quota consumption.
    Fix: Remove the model/provider override or disclose it prominently and require explicit operator approval before invoking an external coding CLI or billed model.
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 $0.00036 $0.00314
Opus 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00126
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00063
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00031

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 2b1e0dffb1e5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 1mo 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/onboard/SKILL.md · 34 lines

What it actually says

Codebase Onboarding Generator

This skill runs in a forked subagent so the broad discovery work doesn't pollute the parent conversation's context. The parent receives a concise summary; the full analysis lives in the generated files.

Procedure

  1. Analyze project structure

    • Top-level layout, build tooling, language and framework versions
    • Key entry points, primary modules, integration points
    • Notable conventions (testing, error handling, configuration, naming)
  2. Write CODEBASE.md

    • Architecture overview (high-level + per-module)
    • Setup and run instructions
    • Key patterns to know — what's idiomatic in this repo
    • Gotchas — things that surprised you while exploring
    • Where to start reading (5-10 file pointers)
  3. Generate PRESENTATION.md in Slidev format

    • 12-20 slides covering the same ground
    • Use the same conventions as slides.md if one exists in the repo
  4. Note any TODOs you found that look like onboarding-relevant footguns.

Use a professional, practical tone. Skip marketing fluff — new team members need to do work, not be sold on the project.

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. 1mo ago First seen · 34 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A 2b1e0dffb1e5

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onboard is a skill published in the GitHub repository kousen/claude-code-training (339 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 314 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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