onboard

onboard is a skill for Claude Code from myelixlabs/synapse-mcp. It costs 41 tokens per session (210 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided introduction to a codebase using Synapse's map of its code and relationships.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to get a reading order, main entry points, important modules and their connections, optionally focused on a named area or path.
Why use it?
It gives a newcomer a focused starting point instead of requiring them to search the whole repository without knowing which files matter.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Part of the synapse-mcp plugin — 8 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to get a reading order, main entry points, important modules and their connections, optionally focused on a named area or path.

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

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install synapse-mcp, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 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.

agentmods badge for onboard

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 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 210 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.
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 $0.00041 $0.00210
Opus 5.5 $0.00016 $0.00084
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00042
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00021

Measured 7d ago against content hash 88c3614f34d9, 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 7d 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.

claude-plugin/skills/onboard/SKILL.md · 14 lines

What it actually says

Onboard to a codebase

  1. Find the repo_id for the current project with synapse_manage_repos (action list), matching on the project directory. If the project is not registered, stop and suggest /synapse-mcp:index.
  2. Call synapse_get_context with action onboard and that repo_id. If the user named an area or path ($ARGUMENTS), pass it as the focus.
  3. Present the result as a short reading order: where to start, the main entry points, the modules that matter most and how they connect. Link each item to its file.

Keep it to what someone needs on their first day. Offer to go deeper on any item.

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. 7d ago First seen · 14 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A 88c3614f34d9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

onboard is a skill published in the GitHub repository myelixlabs/synapse-mcp (3 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 210 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-30.

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