onboard

onboard is a skill for Claude Code from poshan0126/dotclaude. It costs 55 tokens per session (819 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A read-only guided tour of an unfamiliar codebase, moving from its overall purpose to its architecture, data, authentication, conventions, and key terms.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when joining a new repository or focusing on one part of it. It delegates code reading to exploration helpers and returns summaries.
Why use it?
It helps you build a useful mental model without reading every file yourself or filling the main conversation with raw file contents.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions subagents; mentions Claude Code.

Good fit Use it when joining a new repository or focusing on one part of it. It delegates code reading to exploration helpers and returns summaries.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/poshan0126/dotclaude/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 poshan0126/dotclaude --skill onboard
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/poshan0126/dotclaude

Made for: Claude Code.

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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 55 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 819 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00055 $0.00819
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00409
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00164
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00082

Measured 8d ago against content hash f5d58820be8f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, 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 8d 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.

skills/onboard/SKILL.md · 62 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 62 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Build a mental model of a codebase you're new to — broad first, then narrowing — the way the Claude Code onboarding recipe prescribes. Read only; never modify anything. Delegate the heavy reading to Explore subagents so their file dumps stay out of this conversation and only the summaries return.

Orientation (injected — already in front of you)

Top level:

ls -1 "${CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR:-.}" 2>/dev/null | head -40

Manifests / entry points present at the root:

ls -1 "${CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR:-.}" 2>/dev/null | grep -iE '^(package\.json|pyproject\.toml|go\.mod|cargo\.toml|gemfile|composer\.json|pom\.xml|build\.gradle|makefile|dockerfile|readme)' || echo "(no standard manifest at root — this may be a subdir or an unusual layout)"

Step 1: Dispatch the tour

Launch Explore subagents (in parallel where independent) to answer these, starting broad and narrowing. If $ARGUMENTS names a focus area, weight every prompt toward it.

  1. Overview — what this project is, who uses it, the top-level layout and what each major directory holds. Point the agent at the README and manifests first.
  2. Architecture — the main patterns, the entry points, how one request (or CLI invocation) flows end to end, and the module boundaries (what must not depend on what).
  3. Data models — the core domain types/entities/tables and their relationships, and where they're defined.
  4. Auth & security — how authentication and authorization work, where secrets/config load from, and the trust boundaries.
  5. Conventions — naming, file layout, test style and framework, error-handling and logging patterns, and the real build/test/lint commands from the manifests.

Each Explore prompt must ask for a tight summary with file:path pointers, NOT pasted file contents.

Step 2: Synthesize the brief

Merge the returns into one scannable onboarding brief — nothing pasted verbatim, everything a pointer:

# Onboarding: <project>

**What it is**: <2-3 sentences>
**Stack**: <languages, frameworks, key libraries>
**Architecture**: <the 3-5 load-bearing facts + entry points, as file:path>
**Data model**: <core entities and where they live>
**Auth & boundaries**: <how auth works, where secrets load>
**Conventions**: <naming, tests, error handling — the house style>
**Run it**: <build / test / lint commands>
**Glossary**: <project-specific terms an outsider wouldn't know>
**Start here**: <the 2-3 files to read first for the focus area>

Read the full file on GitHub · 62 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. 8d ago First seen · 62 lines · 55 tokens per session scan A f5d58820be8f

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onboard is a skill published in the GitHub repository poshan0126/dotclaude (860 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 819 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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