onboard

onboard is a skill for Claude Code from martineserios/thebrana. It costs 31 tokens per session (4,100 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

A project-discovery and scaffolding command for inspecting an existing project or starting a new client project.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for scanning projects, performing health checks, creating a project directory and Git repository, registering it, and handing it to the alignment process.
Why use it?
It gives a new project a structured entry point and can diagnose an existing project before further work begins.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter; reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md.

Part of the brana plugin — 56 skills, 4 commands, 14 agents, 13 hooks shipped together

Good fit It is for scanning projects, performing health checks, creating a project directory and Git repository, registering it, and handing it to the alignment process.

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

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install brana, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 56 skills, 4 commands, 14 agents, 13 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 31 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,100 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. 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 $0.00031 $0.04100
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.02050
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00820
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00410

Measured 6d ago against content hash afebf9226073, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

onboard scanned grade B with 1 finding 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 6d 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.

Reads agent configuration directoriesmediumAgent snooping

.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/ hold keys, settings and other credentials a mod has no legitimate need for.

grep -q "### {slug}" ~/.claude/memory/portfolio.md && echo "WARN: Already in portfolio"
system/skills/onboard/SKILL.md · 417 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 417 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Onboard — Project Discovery & Scaffolding

Two modes:

  • Scan (default): Diagnostic entry point for an existing project.
  • New: Scaffold a new client from scratch, then hand off to /brana:align.

When to use

  • Scan: First session on a new project, taking over an existing project, or periodic health check.
  • New: Starting a brand new client — creates the directory, git repo, portfolio entry, then delegates to align for structure.

Subcommand routing

Parse the first argument:

  • new or new <slug> → run the New Client flow below
  • Anything else (path, no argument) → run the Scan flow (existing behavior)

/brana:onboard new — New Client Scaffolding

Thin wrapper: collect inputs → create bare directory + git → register → delegate to /brana:align.

No templates, no type-aware scaffolding here. Align owns that.

Step Registry (new)

Register these steps: COLLECT, GUARD, CREATE, REGISTER, ALIGN.


Step 1: COLLECT

Gather the minimum needed to create the project root.

Required

  • slug — from argument or prompt. Lowercase, hyphens ok, no spaces. This becomes the directory name.

Interactive (AskUserQuestion, batch into 1-2 calls)

Field Prompt Options Default
display_name "Display name?" free text titlecase of slug
type "Project type?" code / venture / hybrid code
description "One-line description?" free text
category "Category?" client (paid work — Recommended for new client projects) / venture (your IP — side project, learning, monetizing) / personal client
base_path "Location?" auto from category: clients/ / ventures/ / personal/ (all under ~/enter_thebrana/) / custom path auto
github "Create GitHub remote?" yes / no no
github_org (only if github=yes) "GitHub org?" martineserios / other martineserios
github_visibility (only if github=yes) "Visibility?" private (Recommended) / public private

Read the full file on GitHub · 417 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. 6d ago First seen · 417 lines · 31 tokens per session scan B afebf9226073

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onboard is a skill published in the GitHub repository martineserios/thebrana (3 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 4,100 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (reads agent configuration directories). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.