onboard

onboard is a skill for Claude Code from vasuag09/harness-claude. It costs 52 tokens per session (320 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A codebase-mapping skill for quickly understanding an unfamiliar project. A codebase is the project’s source code, configuration, tests, and supporting files.

In plain words
What is it for?
It identifies the technology stack, run/build/test commands, entry points, data flow, module responsibilities, conventions, and likely locations for new work.
Why use it?
It gives you a practical map of how the project runs and where changes belong without reading every file.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the harness-claude plugin — 32 skills, 8 agents, 6 hooks, 3 MCP servers shipped together

Good fit It identifies the technology stack, run/build/test commands, entry points, data flow, module responsibilities, conventions, and likely locations for new work.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/vasuag09/harness-claude/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 vasuag09/harness-claude --skill onboard
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vasuag09/harness-claude

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install harness-claude, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 32 skills, 8 agents, 6 hooks, 3 MCP servers.

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.

agentmods badge for onboard

README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for onboard

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 52 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 320 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 $0.00052 $0.00320
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00160
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00064
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00032

Measured 10d ago against content hash 111e07ee6aa1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, 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 10d 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 · 31 lines

What it actually says

/onboard — map the codebase

Goal: understand a codebase enough to work in it, cheaply — without reading everything.

Do this

  1. Structure first — read the manifests (package.json / pyproject / README) and the top-level tree. Identify the stack, scripts, and entry points.
  2. Use the graph / mgrep (or Grep/Glob if those are unavailable), not brute-force file reads: find the main modules, the request/data flow, and the seams (where layers meet).
  3. Conventions — note the patterns the repo already uses (naming, error handling, state management, test layout). Future work must match the grain.
  4. Hot spots — where is the core logic, where are the tests, where does config live, what's the build/run/test command.

Output — a lean codemap

## Stack & run/build/test commands
## Entry points & main flow
## Module map (dir → responsibility)
## Conventions to follow
## Where to add things (tests, config, features)

Save it to the session file so later phases don't re-explore. Keep it to one screen.

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. 10d ago First seen · 31 lines · 52 tokens per session scan A 111e07ee6aa1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

onboard is a skill published in the GitHub repository vasuag09/harness-claude (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 52 tokens to every session and 320 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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