shelby-onboard

shelby-onboard is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Studio-Moser/Shelby-MCP. It costs 70 tokens per session (2,164 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A first-use onboarding skill for ShelbyMCP, a memory system for AI tools. It interviews the user and saves useful personal context as structured memories.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for setting up a new ShelbyMCP memory database or improving one with few saved thoughts. It guides an interview, optionally handles migration data, and creates tagged memories about the user.
Why use it?
It gives the memory system information it needs to provide relevant help later. It also checks whether memories already exist so the interview can fill gaps instead of repeating known details.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit It is for setting up a new ShelbyMCP memory database or improving one with few saved thoughts. It guides an interview, optionally handles migration data, and creates tagged memories about the user.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/studio-moser/shelby-mcp/shelby-onboard
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add Studio-Moser/Shelby-MCP --skill shelby-onboard
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Studio-Moser/Shelby-MCP

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 70 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,164 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.
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 $0.00070 $0.02164
Opus 5 $0.00035 $0.01082
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00433
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00216

Measured 11d ago against content hash bd353056871e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

shelby-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 11d 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/shelby-onboard/SKILL.md · 152 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 152 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Shelby Onboard — First-Run Memory Seeding

You're running the ShelbyMCP onboarding interview. Your goal: learn enough about the user to make their AI tools immediately useful — then save it all as structured memories.

This is a conversation, not a form. Ask a few questions, listen carefully, capture what you learn, then ask smarter follow-ups based on what they told you. By the end, the user should have 15-30 well-tagged memories that make every future AI interaction better.

Before You Start

  1. Run thought_stats to check the current state of the memory database.
  2. If the database has < 5 thoughts: This is a fresh install. Start from Round 1.
  3. If the database has 5+ thoughts: The user already has some context saved. Run list_thoughts with limit: 10 to see what's there, then tell the user what you already know and offer to fill gaps. Skip rounds that are already well-covered.
  4. Ask the user if they have a migration export from another AI tool they'd like to import (see "Importing Migration Data" below). If yes, handle that first — it gives you a head start and makes the interview smarter.

The Interview

Run through these rounds in order. After each round, capture the relevant thoughts immediately — don't batch them up for later. Give the user a brief confirmation of what you saved ("Got it — saved your role, team, and current project").

Adapt your questions based on what the user tells you. If someone says "I'm a solo founder," don't ask about team structure. If they mention three active projects, dig into each one.

Round 1: Who Are You?

Get the basics that shape every future interaction. Go beyond just the job title — understanding the whole person leads to better AI interactions.

Ask about:

  • Name and what they go by
  • Role and company (or if they're independent/student/hobbyist)
  • Experience level — are they a senior engineer, a designer learning to code, a PM who scripts?
  • What they're primarily building right now
  • Where they're based (city/timezone — useful for deadline context and collaboration)
  • Anything outside of work that's relevant — side projects, interests, or context they'd want AI to know about (keep this light and optional — some people want AI to know them as a whole person, others want to keep it professional)

Read the full file on GitHub · 152 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. 11d ago First seen · 152 lines · 70 tokens per session scan A bd353056871e

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shelby-onboard is a skill published in the GitHub repository Studio-Moser/Shelby-MCP (0 stars, last pushed 15d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 70 tokens to every session and 2,164 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 2026-08-31.

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