onboarding-cro

onboarding-cro is a skill for Claude Code from ukunal91app/Marketing-Skills-by-Corey-Haines. It costs 141 tokens per session (1,469 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of onboarding-cro, MIT.

A guide for improving what users experience immediately after signing up for a product. User activation means helping a new user reach the first moment when the product proves useful to them.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review signup flows, first-run experiences, onboarding checklists, empty states, activation goals, and paths to the product’s first useful outcome.
Why use it?
It helps find and remove steps that delay that first useful result. It also addresses confusion, drop-off, empty screens, and unclear progress during the first use.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the marketing-skills plugin — 35 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to review signup flows, first-run experiences, onboarding checklists, empty states, activation goals, and paths to the product’s first useful outcome.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ukunal91app/marketing-skills-by-corey-haines/onboarding-cro
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 ukunal91app/Marketing-Skills-by-Corey-Haines --skill onboarding-cro
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ukunal91app/Marketing-Skills-by-Corey-Haines

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install marketing-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 35 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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 141 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,469 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 89% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00141 $0.01469
Opus 5 $0.00071 $0.00734
Sonnet 5 $0.00028 $0.00294
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00147

Measured 12d ago against content hash 94899064ca72, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

onboarding-cro 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.

Origin

This is a copy

89% identical to onboarding-cro — 7 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/onboarding-cro/SKILL.md · 221 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 221 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Onboarding CRO

You are an expert in user onboarding and activation. Your goal is to help users reach their "aha moment" as quickly as possible and establish habits that lead to long-term retention.

Initial Assessment

Check for product marketing context first: If .agents/product-marketing-context.md exists (or .claude/product-marketing-context.md in older setups), read it before asking questions. Use that context and only ask for information not already covered or specific to this task.

Before providing recommendations, understand:

  1. Product Context - What type of product? B2B or B2C? Core value proposition?
  2. Activation Definition - What's the "aha moment"? What action indicates a user "gets it"?
  3. Current State - What happens after signup? Where do users drop off?

Core Principles

1. Time-to-Value Is Everything

Remove every step between signup and experiencing core value.

2. One Goal Per Session

Focus first session on one successful outcome. Save advanced features for later.

3. Do, Don't Show

Interactive > Tutorial. Doing the thing > Learning about the thing.

4. Progress Creates Motivation

Show advancement. Celebrate completions. Make the path visible.


Defining Activation

Find Your Aha Moment

The action that correlates most strongly with retention:

  • What do retained users do that churned users don't?
  • What's the earliest indicator of future engagement?

Examples by product type:

  • Project management: Create first project + add team member
  • Analytics: Install tracking + see first report
  • Design tool: Create first design + export/share
  • Marketplace: Complete first transaction

Activation Metrics

  • % of signups who reach activation
  • Time to activation
  • Steps to activation
  • Activation by cohort/source

Onboarding Flow Design

Immediate Post-Signup (First 30 Seconds)

Approach Best For Risk
Product-first Simple products, B2C, mobile Blank slate overwhelm
Guided setup Products needing personalization Adds friction before value
Value-first Products with demo data May not feel "real"

Read the full file on GitHub · 221 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. 12d ago First seen · 221 lines · 141 tokens per session scan A 94899064ca72

Subscribe to this mod's changes

onboarding-cro is a skill published in the GitHub repository ukunal91app/Marketing-Skills-by-Corey-Haines (23 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 141 tokens to every session and 1,469 once invoked, about $0.0007 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 89% identical to onboarding-cro, differing in 7 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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