onboarding

onboarding is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from onebrain-ai/onebrain. It costs 70 tokens per session (5,675 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A first-run setup guide for OneBrain, a system that stores and manages personal notes and memory in a vault. It helps configure identity, communication preferences, and vault settings.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when installing OneBrain for the first time or fully reconfiguring it from scratch. It can check the installation path, preserve existing configuration where appropriate, and guide setup decisions.
Why use it?
It prevents a new installation from starting with missing or inconsistent configuration. It also handles re-running setup or adopting an existing configuration when plugin files are missing.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the onebrain plugin — 32 skills, 5 agents, 2 hooks shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/onebrain-ai/onebrain/onboarding
Any agent
npx skills add onebrain-ai/onebrain --skill onboarding
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/onebrain-ai/onebrain

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install onebrain, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 32 skills, 5 agents, 2 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.

agentmods badge for onboarding

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/onebrain-ai/onebrain/onboarding.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/onebrain-ai/onebrain/onboarding)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/onebrain-ai/onebrain/onboarding"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/onebrain-ai/onebrain/onboarding.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 70 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,675 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00070 $0.05675
Opus 5 $0.00035 $0.02838
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.01135
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00568

Measured 4d ago against content hash 363bfca22124, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

onboarding 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 4d 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/plugins/onebrain/skills/onboarding/SKILL.md · 525 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 525 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Install Path Detection

At the very start, before any user interaction, detect which install path was used:

Check if .claude/plugins/onebrain/ exists locally in this vault directory.

Re-run check: If .claude/plugins/onebrain/ exists AND onebrain.yml exists, this is a re-run on an already-configured vault. Tell the user:

OneBrain is already set up in this vault. Running onboarding again will update your identity and preferences : your notes and vault structure will not change. Continue?

Wait for confirmation. If they confirm, proceed with Path A flow (existing steps). If they decline, stop.

Path B detected: If .claude/plugins/onebrain/ does NOT exist locally:

  • If onebrain.yml also exists : warn the user before continuing: OneBrain vault config (onebrain.yml) found but plugin files are missing. Proceeding to re-adopt the plugin. Your existing onebrain.yml will be preserved. If MEMORY.md exists, you'll be asked whether to keep or replace it.
  • Skip to the Path B section at the bottom of this skill.

Path A detected: If .claude/plugins/onebrain/ exists locally (and it is a first run or confirmed re-run), continue with the steps below (existing onboarding flow).


OneBrain Onboarding

Welcome to OneBrain! This skill personalizes your vault and sets up your AI chief of staff.

Run this once when you first set up OneBrain.


Platform Note

For steps that present a fixed set of choices (personality archetype, communication style), use the AskUserQuestion tool if available. If not available, present the options as a numbered list and wait for a text response. Free-text prompts (name, role, goals, context) should always be asked as plain conversational text.

Detecting availability: Attempt AskUserQuestion on the first choice-based question (personality archetype, Step 5). If it fails or is unavailable, switch to plain-text numbered lists for all remaining choice questions in this skill : do not retry AskUserQuestion after a failure.

Read the full file on GitHub · 525 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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. 4d ago First seen · 525 lines · 70 tokens per session scan A 363bfca22124

Subscribe to this mod's changes

onboarding is a skill published in the GitHub repository onebrain-ai/onebrain (25 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 70 tokens to every session and 5,675 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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