onboarding

An introduction and setup guide for the Pardes marketplace, a collection of focused Claude Code add-ons. It explains what the add-ons do and how they can be combined, then can check configuration settings with permission.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to understand the marketplace, learn which add-ons fit a workflow, see how they work together, and review recommended Claude Code settings.
Why use it?
It gives new users a map of unfamiliar add-ons before they choose how to use them. The configuration check is advisory and does not apply changes without confirmation.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/shivaedev/pardes/onboarding
Any agent
npx skills add ShivaeDev/pardes --skill onboarding
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ShivaeDev/pardes

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 75 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,575 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. 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 $0.00075 $0.01575
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.00788
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00315
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00158

Measured 2d ago against content hash 3d4e64a27f21, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

onboarding scanned grade B 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 2d 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.

Reads agent configuration directoriesmediumAgent snooping

.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/ hold keys, settings and other credentials a mod has no legitimate need for.

The doctor is a dependency-free script that compares the user's `~/.claude/settings.json` against a manifest of **recommended** (never required) settings tuned for this marketplace's orchestration-heavy style. It is **ad
plugins/onboarding/skills/onboarding/SKILL.md · 71 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 71 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

onboarding

You are helping a user get oriented in the pardes marketplace and tune their Claude Code setup. This skill has two halves: orient (explain what's here and how it fits together) and doctor (check their config and, only if they say yes, apply recommended settings). Do the orientation first, then offer the doctor — don't run the doctor unprompted unless the user clearly asked for a config check.

Half 1 — Orient the user

Pardes is a small marketplace of focused Claude Code plugins. Most ship one skill; a few ship other artifacts instead (shared infrastructure, a status line, workflow scripts). Explain the pieces in plain terms and, importantly, how they compose — the value is in the combination:

  • base — a foundational scaffold; shared hooks and core skills land here as the marketplace grows. Nothing else depends on it yet, so install it only if you want the scaffold present.
  • orchestrate — plans one large multi-chunk PR through a short interview, then ships it by dispatching focused sub-agents one chunk at a time. Reach for it when a single PR is too big for one context but is sequenceable into discrete commits.
  • shift-leader — the standing autonomous orchestrator above a single PR: it runs a multi-PR / multi-agent effort, dispatches file-disjoint work to parallel worktrees, gates dependent work on merges (never merging itself), opens and monitors each PR, and survives compaction via a durable state file. It uses orchestrate (if present) to plan+ship each individual large PR.
  • shell-helpers — dependency-free shell helpers that the orchestration skills lean on: freshen a checkout to a clean baseline, prune merged branches, reap stale worktrees. Available both as PATH commands and as sourceable shell functions.
  • pr-description — writes a tight PR description (Why / How / Decisions / Callouts, no filler). Pairs naturally with orchestrate and shift-leader when a PR is ready to open.
  • statusline — a rich multi-line status line: model, context-pressure bar, cost, git, PR, and rate limits on the main line, plus per-subagent gauges in the agent panel. Most useful precisely when shift-leader has several sub-agents running — you can watch each one's context pressure.
  • workflows — a starter library of Workflow-tool scripts — writer→reviewer, read-only investigation, parallel-edit-then-serialized-verify — each callable as workflows:<name>. They're the concrete orchestration moves the higher-level skills lean on, ready to run or fork.

Read the full file on GitHub · 71 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. 2d ago First seen · 71 lines · 75 tokens per session scan B 3d4e64a27f21

Subscribe to this mod's changes

onboarding is a skill published in the GitHub repository ShivaeDev/pardes (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 75 tokens to every session and 1,575 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (reads agent configuration directories). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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