onboard-our-stack

onboard-our-stack is a skill for Claude Code from Osipchuk/agent-skills. It costs 231 tokens per session (1,477 once invoked), scanned C, original, MIT.

A guided introduction to an existing codebase, using a maintainer-curated reading order when one is available and the repository itself when it is not.

In plain words
What is it for?
Explaining an entire project or a named subsystem, including where to start, how pieces fit together, and known project-specific pitfalls.
Why use it?
It gives newcomers a reliable path through unfamiliar code and avoids making them guess which files or concepts matter.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions AGENTS.md.

Part of the skills plugin — 8 skills shipped together

Good fit Explaining an entire project or a named subsystem, including where to start, how pieces fit together, and known project-specific pitfalls.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/osipchuk/agent-skills/onboard-our-stack
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 Osipchuk/agent-skills --skill onboard-our-stack
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Osipchuk/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install skills, 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-our-stack

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/osipchuk/agent-skills/onboard-our-stack.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/osipchuk/agent-skills/onboard-our-stack)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/osipchuk/agent-skills/onboard-our-stack"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/osipchuk/agent-skills/onboard-our-stack.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 231 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,477 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 $0.00231 $0.01477
Opus 5 $0.00115 $0.00739
Sonnet 5 $0.00046 $0.00295
Haiku 4.5 $0.00023 $0.00148

Measured 8d ago against content hash fae9bf6072ba, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

onboard-our-stack 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 (scripts/check_topics.py), 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.

Tells the agent never to refusehighAnti-refusal

Suppressing the ability to decline removes a core safety control; a later harmful request then succeeds.

2. **No config -> COLD START.** Do NOT refuse, and do NOT drop into config
skills/onboard-our-stack/SKILL.md · 117 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 117 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

onboard-our-stack

Two jobs, one skill:

  • Broad onboarding — "I'm new, help me understand this project." The reader needs a route through the system, in order.
  • Targeted — "explain our scheduler." The reader needs one subsystem, on demand.

Tell them apart from the request: a named subsystem -> targeted; "new", "onboard me", "where do I start", "understand the project" -> broad.

The institutional knowledge — which files are load-bearing, in what order, and the gotchas that live only in people's heads — is curated in .claude/onboard/topics.yaml by a maintainer, ONCE, and committed. A newcomer just asks; they never author it and never change code to make this skill work.

Availability ladder — the "works out of the box" guarantee

Pick the highest tier the repo supports. Never block the newcomer on setup, and never demand maintainer input from someone who came here to learn.

  1. Curated config present (.claude/onboard/topics.yaml at repo root) -> use it. Best tier: real ordering, real gotchas. See Broad / Targeted below.

  2. No config -> COLD START. Do NOT refuse, and do NOT drop into config authoring (that is a maintainer-only flow, below). Orient the newcomer from the repo's own authoritative sources, in this order if present: README.md, CLAUDE.md / AGENTS.md, ARCHITECTURE.md, docs/ (a product doc and a runbook if they exist), the dependency manifest (pyproject.toml / requirements.txt), and the entry point (main.py / app). Synthesize a grounded orientation, citing each file. Derive getting-started from README/RUNBOOK. Then say plainly: "This is auto-read from your repo's docs, not a curated walk — the tribal knowledge a teammate would warn you about (stale docs, landmines, why it's built this way) isn't captured yet. A maintainer can run the setup, or I can help one author it."

    The line you must not cross: reading and citing the team's own docs is ALLOWED — that surfaces what's written, it is not a guess. Inventing gotchas, or asserting a file is load-bearing without evidence from a doc or the entry point's own imports, is NOT allowed. When unsure, attribute it or omit it.

Read the full file on GitHub · 117 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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 · 117 lines · 231 tokens per session scan C fae9bf6072ba

Subscribe to this mod's changes

onboard-our-stack is a skill published in the GitHub repository Osipchuk/agent-skills (5 stars, last pushed 28d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 231 tokens to every session and 1,477 once invoked, about $0.0012 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (tells the agent never to refuse). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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