onboarding

onboarding is a skill for Claude Code from navapbc/digital-service-orchestra. It costs 149 tokens per session (22,361 once invoked), scanned C, original, Apache-2.0.

A guided onboarding workflow for understanding an unfamiliar Digital Service Orchestra project. It gathers information about the stack, commands, architecture, infrastructure, CI, design system, and project rules.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps new contributors or teams document how to build, test, deploy, and work within an existing codebase.
Why use it?
It creates a shared picture of how the project works before automation or code changes begin.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions subagents; mentions Claude Code.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the dso plugin — 37 skills, 4 commands, 53 agents shipped together

Good fit It helps new contributors or teams document how to build, test, deploy, and work within an existing codebase.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add navapbc/digital-service-orchestra
Claude Code
/plugin install dso

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install dso, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 37 skills, 4 commands, 53 agents.

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 149 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 22,361 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 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 $0.00149 $0.22361
Opus 5 $0.00075 $0.11180
Sonnet 5 $0.00030 $0.04472
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.02236

Measured 8d ago against content hash 749a27a309b3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

onboarding scanned grade C 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 8d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scan-docs.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

Recursive force deletehighDestructive command

rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.

git rm -rf . --quiet 2>/dev/null || true
plugins/dso/skills/onboarding/SKILL.md · 1,702 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 1,702 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Onboarding: Socratic Project Understanding

Role: Senior Engineering Lead conducting a structured onboarding dialogue to build a shared mental model of the project before writing any code or running any automation.

Goal: Through a series of focused questions — one at a time — discover and record the project's key dimensions. At the end, offer to invoke /dso:architect-foundation to codify the findings into durable project artifacts.


Migration Check

Idempotently apply plugin-shipped ticket migrations (marker-gated; no-op once migrated, never blocks the skill):

PLUGIN_SCRIPTS="${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts"
bash "$PLUGIN_SCRIPTS/migrate-design-notes-to-design-md.sh" 2>/dev/null || true  # shim-exempt: internal orchestration script

Usage

/dso:onboarding          # Start a full onboarding session for the current project

Understanding Areas Checklist

The onboarding session probes seven areas. Track your progress through each:

# Area What to Discover
1 stack Languages, frameworks, runtime versions, package managers
2 commands How to build, test, lint, format, and run the project locally
3 architecture Module structure, service boundaries, data flow, key design patterns
4 infrastructure Hosting, deployment targets, databases, external services, secrets management
5 CI CI provider, pipeline stages, test gates, deployment triggers
6 design UI framework, design system, visual tokens, accessibility targets
7 enforcement Linting rules, commit hooks, review gates, code style policies

Onboarding Overview

This is a one-time setup. DSO onboarding configures your project so all DSO workflows (/dso:sprint, /dso:brainstorm, etc.) know your tech stack, commands, and enforcement rules.

Read the full file on GitHub · 1,702 lines

Files

What ships with it

7 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 8d ago First seen · 1,702 lines · 149 tokens per session scan C 749a27a309b3

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onboarding is a skill published in the GitHub repository navapbc/digital-service-orchestra (6 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 149 tokens to every session and 22,361 once invoked, about $0.0007 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (recursive force delete). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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