onboard

onboard is a skill for Claude Code from WilliamJnsson/NarratorDB. It costs 39 tokens per session (648 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An onboarding procedure for NarratorDB, a memory service for coding-agent projects. It checks whether project memory, privacy mode, automatic capture, and the current workspace are ready.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after installation or upgrades, or when checking whether NarratorDB can capture and recall project information. It reports memory counts and whether the service is in Private or Intelligence mode.
Why use it?
It gives a consistent readiness check and warns when the agent was started outside the intended project folder, which can block safe project memory.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: SessionStart hook event. Also seen: mentions Codex.

Good fit Use it after installation or upgrades, or when checking whether NarratorDB can capture and recall project information. It reports memory counts and whether the service is in Private or Intelligence mode.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/williamjnsson/narratordb/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 WilliamJnsson/NarratorDB --skill onboard
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/WilliamJnsson/NarratorDB

Made for: Claude Code.

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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 648 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 $0.00648
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00324
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00130
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00065

Measured 11d ago against content hash 63412461db31, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, 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 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.

plugins/narratordb/skills/onboard/SKILL.md · 47 lines

What it actually says

Onboard NarratorDB

Perform one quiet, read-only readiness check:

  1. Send one short progress update: Checking NarratorDB for this project…
  2. Call status exactly once with scope="project" and full_check=false.
  3. Interpret the structured response internally. Read the current-project count from memory_counts.current_workspace and the user's all-workspace count from memory_counts.current_user_total. Do not echo raw JSON. Read the automatic policy from capture_policy.
  4. Inspect scope_diagnostics.project_writes_blocked before calling the project ready. If it is true, finish with one warning and stop: NarratorDB is healthy, but project memory is not ready — Codex started outside a safe project scope. Start Codex from the intended project folder and run onboarding again. (<current> current-workspace memories; <total> across your workspaces.)
  5. Otherwise finish with one compact result:
    • ready in Private mode: NarratorDB is ready — Private mode, <policy> capture, local recall, <current> current-workspace memories (<total> across your workspaces).
    • ready in Intelligence mode: NarratorDB is ready — Intelligence mode, <policy> capture, local recall, <current> current-workspace memories (<total> across your workspaces).
    • path-derived but writable: append one short form of scope_warning; do not claim the scope is portable across machines.
    • degraded: NarratorDB is degraded: <short reason>. <one recovery action>.
    • unavailable: NarratorDB is unavailable. Install or verify uvx, then restart Codex.

Do not call resume, recall, or remember during routine onboarding. The SessionStart hook handles normal context loading; explicit resume and write requests are separate interactions. Do not list database paths, user IDs, workspace IDs, health objects, or timing fields unless the user asks for diagnostics. Never say that the database is empty merely because memory_counts.current_workspace is zero; report current-workspace and all-workspace counts separately.

Private mode needs no account, API key, or external model. An existing Intelligence database remains Intelligence, but its recall is still local. Do not install unrelated packages, change mode, request a provider key, or expose environment contents. Codex controls native status/spinner animation; this skill can provide concise commentary but cannot customize that animation.

Policy meanings: manual saves only explicit remember calls; preferences also learns high-confidence personal preferences and routines from the current prompt; sessions additionally captures bounded project conversations. Never describe Preferences as arbitrary AI extraction. If the user wants to change mode or policy, use the setup skill rather than mutating configuration during a readiness check.

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 · 47 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A 63412461db31

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onboard is a skill published in the GitHub repository WilliamJnsson/NarratorDB (0 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 648 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 2026-08-31.

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