onboard-dev-agent

onboard-dev-agent is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from wednesday-solutions/ai-agent-skills. It costs 39 tokens per session (440 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An onboarding guide for developers who are new to a software project. It examines the project's documentation and code map before explaining how the system is organized.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to understand where to start, what each major module does, which files need care, what changed recently, which architecture rules apply, and where tests are sparse.
Why use it?
It replaces guesswork with a structured overview of the project's purpose, modules, risky files, recent changes, rules, and test coverage.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to understand where to start, what each major module does, which files need care, what changed recently, which architecture rules apply, and where tests are sparse.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/wednesday-solutions/ai-agent-skills/onboard-dev
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 wednesday-solutions/ai-agent-skills --skill onboard-dev
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wednesday-solutions/ai-agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 39 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 440 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 $0.00039 $0.00440
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00220
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00088
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00044

Measured 11d ago against content hash db4cf556ee6e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

onboard-dev-agent 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/agents/onboard-dev/SKILL.md · 50 lines

What it actually says

Dev Onboarding Agent

When to use

  • "I'm new to this project, where do I start?"
  • "Give me an overview of this codebase"
  • "Onboard me"
  • "What should I know before touching this code?"

What to do

  1. brownfield-fix — Before answering anything, check for high-risk files with low graph coverage:

    • Run wednesday-skills fill-gaps --min-risk 60
    • This ensures the graph is reliable for the onboarding session
    • Report any gaps that were filled
  2. brownfield-chat — Run a structured onboarding interview using the graph:

    Answer each of these in order, citing sources:

    • "What does this project do?" — reads MASTER.md overview
    • "What are the main modules and what does each do?" — summaries.json
    • "What are the highest-risk files and why?" — dep-graph.json safety-scores
    • "What changed in the last 30 days?" — git log
    • "What are the architecture rules I must not break?" — PLAN.md boundaries or MASTER.md danger zones
    • "Which areas have low test coverage?" — dep-graph.json coverage data
  3. Finish with: "Which area would you like to explore first?"

Never

  • Answer from memory about a specific codebase — always read the graph
  • Skip the gap-filling step — it ensures reliable answers
  • Load the full dep-graph.json — query only relevant nodes
Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 11d ago First seen · 50 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A db4cf556ee6e

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onboard-dev-agent is a skill published in the GitHub repository wednesday-solutions/ai-agent-skills (168 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 440 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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