onboard

onboard is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from tobihagemann/turbo. It costs 92 tokens per session (1,655 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A developer onboarding guide that combines an architecture report, tooling review, and review of the project's setup for AI agents, then adds setup and troubleshooting advice.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to explain an unfamiliar project's structure, tools, setup process, common problems, and recommended next steps in Markdown and HTML.
Why use it?
It gathers the information a new developer needs in one place instead of making them piece it together from project files and separate investigations.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions AGENTS.md.

Good fit Use it to explain an unfamiliar project's structure, tools, setup process, common problems, and recommended next steps in Markdown and HTML.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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 92 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,655 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Rogue Agent · line 12
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
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 $0.00092 $0.01655
Opus 5 $0.00046 $0.00827
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00331
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00166

Measured 12d ago against content hash de0090c42757, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, 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 12d 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/skills/onboard/SKILL.md · 116 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 116 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Onboard

Developer onboarding pipeline. Composes /map-codebase, /review-tooling, and /review-agentic-setup with inline agents, then synthesizes everything into .turbo/onboarding.md and .turbo/onboarding.html. Analysis-only.

Task Tracking

At the start, use TaskCreate to create a task for each phase:

  1. Launch all agents
  2. Synthesize and generate markdown report
  3. Generate HTML report

Step 1: Launch All Agents

Emit all 6 Agent tool calls below in one assistant message. Each Agent call uses model: "opus" and no name. Wait for every agent to report before continuing. Do not begin the next step on a partial set, and do not relaunch an agent that has not yet reported. Each Composed Skills agent invokes its assigned skill via the Skill tool; each Inline Agent follows its exploration brief directly. Every agent's prompt must direct it to treat the shared working tree and its git index as read-only and to explore by reading and reasoning, except that each Composed Skills agent writes the report files its own skill defines. HEAD stays where it is: read other refs with git show <ref>:<path> rather than git checkout or git switch.

Composed Skills

Launch one Agent tool call per row. Each agent's prompt instructs it to invoke its assigned skill via the Skill tool.

Skill Onboarding role
/map-codebase Architecture understanding: structure, tech stack, entry points, patterns, data flow, dependencies, testing
/review-tooling Development workflow: linters, formatters, pre-commit hooks, test runners, CI/CD
/review-agentic-setup Agentic coding: CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, skills, MCP servers, hooks, cross-tool compatibility

Inline Agents

Launch one Agent tool call each with the exploration brief below.

Agent Exploration Brief
Prerequisites and Setup Read README.md, CONTRIBUTING.md, and package manager configs (package.json, Gemfile, Cargo.toml, go.mod, pyproject.toml, Package.swift, etc.). Extract: required language runtimes and versions, system dependencies, environment variables, database or service requirements, first-time setup steps (install, build, run, seed), and any bootstrap or setup scripts.
Troubleshooting Search for troubleshooting content in README.md, TROUBLESHOOTING.md, docs/ directory, FAQ files, and GitHub Discussions/Wiki if accessible. Extract common errors, known quirks, platform-specific gotchas, and debugging tips. If no troubleshooting docs exist, report that.
Next Steps Run gh issue list --state open --json number,title,url,reactionGroups,comments,labels --limit 50. Identify: (1) issues labeled good-first-issue or good first issue, (2) top 5 issues by engagement score (sum of reactions weighted 2x for thumbs-up, plus comment count). If gh is not available or not in a GitHub repo, skip and note that.

Read the full file on GitHub · 116 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. 12d ago First seen · 116 lines · 92 tokens per session scan A de0090c42757

Subscribe to this mod's changes

onboard is a skill published in the GitHub repository tobihagemann/turbo (402 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 92 tokens to every session and 1,655 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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