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Get Started Free →Developer onboarding guide that composes architecture mapping, tooling review, and agentic setup review with setup, troubleshooting, and next-steps agents to produce a comprehensive guide at .turbo/onboarding.md and .turbo/onboarding.html. Use when the user asks to "onboard me", "onboard to this project", "generate onboarding guide", "new developer guide", "how do I get started", or "help me ramp up".
.claude/skills/tobihagemann-onboard/SKILL.md| Test case | Without → With | Effect | Δ tokens | Δ turns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| case-08 | ✗→✓ | ▲ Improved | 71% | 0% |
| case-16 | ✗→✓ | ▲ Improved | 34% | 0% |
| case-17 | ✗→✓ | ▲ Improved | 52% | 0% |
| case-18 | ✗→✓ | ▲ Improved | -4% | 0% |
| case-05 | ✓→✓ | = Same ✓ | 20% | 0% |
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.
At the start, use update_plan to track each phase, restating any remaining steps of a parent workflow alongside them:
Issue all 6 spawn_agent calls below in one batch, then collect their results with wait_agent. Do not issue one and await its result before issuing the rest. Each sub-agent inherits the parent model. Each Composed Skills agent invokes its assigned skill by reading and following the installed skill instructions; each Inline Agent follows its exploration brief directly. Every sub-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 sub-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.
Launch one Codex sub-agent call per row. Each agent's prompt instructs it to invoke its assigned skill by reading and following the installed skill instructions.
| Skill | Onboarding role | |---|---| | $map-codebase | Architecture: structure, stack, APIs, patterns, data flow, dependencies, testing | | $review-tooling | Development workflow: linters, formatters, pre-commit hooks, test runners, CI/CD | | $review-agentic-setup | Agentic coding: CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, skills, MCP servers, hooks, cross-tool compatibility |
Launch one Codex sub-agent call each with the exploration brief below.
| Role | Exploration Brief | |---|---| | Prerequisites and Setup | Read README.md, CONTRIBUTING.md, and package manager configs (package.json, Gemfile, Cargo.toml, go.mod, pyproject.toml, Package.swift, etc.). Extract: required language runtimes and versions, system dependencies, environment variables, database or service requirements, first-time setup steps (install, build, run, seed), and any bootstrap or setup scripts. | | Troubleshooting | Search for troubleshooting content in README.md, TROUBLESHOOTING.md, docs/ directory, FAQ files, and GitHub Discussions/Wiki if accessible. Extract common errors, known quirks, platform-specific gotchas, and debugging tips. If no troubleshooting docs exist, report that. | | Next Steps | Run gh issue list --state open --json number,title,url,reactionGroups,comments,labels --limit 50. Identify: (1) issues labeled good-first-issue or good first issue, (2) top 5 issues by engagement score (sum of reactions weighted 2x for thumbs-up, plus comment count). If gh is not available or not in a GitHub repo, skip and note that. |
Each agent writes its findings as structured markdown.
After all agents complete:
.turbo/threat-model.md exists; if so, read it for the Security Considerations section. Collect each surface's cited paths from Entry points and sinks and Hot files, ignoring any :line suffix. Treat the threat model as superseded when a surface has no cited path that still resolves. In place of a superseded threat model's content, name its path and state that it predates the current code.$review-tooling findings become "Development Workflow" (what tools are used and how to run them). $review-agentic-setup findings become "AI-Assisted Development" (what's set up and how to use it). Focus on what exists, not what's missing. Strip severity labels, findings numbering, and gap framing from review skill outputs. Present detected tools and configurations as project conventions the new developer should know..turbo/onboarding.md using the report template. Output the welcome summary as text before writing the file.markdown# Onboarding Guide **Date:** <date> **Project:** <project name> ## Welcome <3-5 sentences: what this project is, who it's for, fastest path to a first contribution> ## Prerequisites and Setup <from Prerequisites and Setup agent: language runtimes, dependencies, first-time setup steps, build/run commands> ## Architecture Overview <from $map-codebase: condensed executive summary and key structural insights — not the full report, which lives at .turbo/codebase-map.md> ## Development Workflow <from $review-tooling: reframed as "how to develop" — what linters/formatters to run, how to test, pre-commit hooks, CI/CD pipeline> ## AI-Assisted Development <from $review-agentic-setup: reframed as "how to use AI coding tools" — what CLAUDE.md/AGENTS.md cover, installed skills, MCP servers, cross-tool compatibility> ## Security Considerations <from .turbo/threat-model.md if present: key trust boundaries, security-sensitive areas, and what to be careful with, or, when it is superseded, its path and a note that it predates the current code. Omit this section when no threat model exists> ## Troubleshooting <from Troubleshooting agent: common errors, known quirks, debugging tips, or "no troubleshooting docs found"> ## Next Steps <from Next Steps agent: good-first-issue issues, top-engaged issues, or "no GitHub issues found">
Convert the markdown report into a styled, interactive HTML page.
$frontend-design skill to load design principles..turbo/onboarding.md for the full report content..turbo/onboarding.html (single file, no external dependencies beyond Google Fonts) that presents the onboarding guide with:@media print$map-codebase skill produces its own full report at .turbo/codebase-map.md. The onboarding guide includes a condensed summary and links to the full report.| Case | Status | Duration (ms) | Turns | Tokens | Tool calls | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Without | With | Δ | Without | With | Δ | Without | With | Δ | Without | With | Δ | ||
case-09 | fail→fail | 6,941 | 3,140 | -55% | 1 | 1 | 0% | 1,212 | 2,195 | +81% | 0 | 0 | — |
case-02 | fail→fail | 4,768 | 8,486 | +78% | 1 | 1 | 0% | 243 | 2,296 | +845% | 0 | 0 | — |
case-03 | fail→fail | 16,477 | 15,843 | -4% | 1 | 1 | 0% | 230 | 2,074 | +802% | 0 | 0 | — |
case-01 | fail→fail | 4,029 | 9,441 | +134% | 1 | 1 | 0% | 246 | 2,051 | +734% | 0 | 0 | — |
case-04 | fail→fail | 11,596 | 17,757 | +53% | 1 | 1 | 0% | 2,032 | 5,790 | +185% | 0 | 0 | — |
case-05 | pass→pass | 9,158 | 2,423 | -74% | 1 | 1 | 0% | 1,750 | 2,101 | +20% | 0 | 0 | — |
case-06 | fail→fail | 8,843 | 18,005 | +104% | 1 | 1 | 0% | 1,642 | 2,545 | +55% | 0 | 0 | — |
case-07 | pass→pass | 11,449 | 6,019 | -47% | 1 | 1 | 0% | 1,167 | 2,828 | +142% | 0 | 0 | — |
case-08 | fail→pass | 7,819 | 15,187 | +94% | 1 | 1 | 0% | 1,535 | 2,625 | +71% | 0 | 0 | — |
case-10 | pass→pass | 4,951 | 4,282 | -14% | 1 | 1 | 0% | 889 | 2,523 | +184% | 0 | 0 | — |
case-11 | fail→fail | 11,566 | 13,860 | +20% | 1 | 1 | 0% | 2,302 | 2,329 | +1% | 0 | 0 | — |
case-12 | fail→fail | 13,321 | 5,496 | -59% | 1 | 1 | 0% | 2,649 | 2,681 | +1% | 0 | 0 | — |
case-13 | pass→pass | 8,837 | 2,680 | -70% | 1 | 1 | 0% | 1,482 | 2,106 | +42% | 0 | 0 | — |
case-14 | pass→pass | 10,523 | 4,937 | -53% | 1 | 1 | 0% | 1,752 | 2,561 | +46% | 0 | 0 | — |
case-15 | fail→fail | 7,942 | 1,662 | -79% | 1 | 1 | 0% | 1,290 | 1,894 | +47% | 0 | 0 | — |
case-16 | fail→pass | 9,765 | 3,518 | -64% | 1 | 1 | 0% | 1,669 | 2,237 | +34% | 0 | 0 | — |
case-17 | fail→pass | 12,477 | 9,098 | -27% | 1 | 1 | 0% | 2,180 | 3,309 | +52% | 0 | 0 | — |
case-18 | fail→pass | 18,439 | 8,408 | -54% | 1 | 1 | 0% | 3,292 | 3,152 | -4% | 0 | 0 | — |
case-19 | fail→fail | 2,697 | 1,697 | -37% | 1 | 1 | 0% | 329 | 1,896 | +476% | 0 | 0 | — |
case-20 | fail→fail | 7,887 | 16,008 | +103% | 1 | 1 | 0% | 1,532 | 2,586 | +69% | 0 | 0 | — |
case-21 | fail→fail | 6,909 | 14,813 | +114% | 1 | 1 | 0% | 229 | 2,866 | +1152% | 0 | 0 | — |
case-22 | fail→fail | 3,566 | 28,486 | +699% | 1 | 1 | 0% | 138 | 5,915 | +4186% | 0 | 0 | — |
DecimalAI ran this skill against gemini-3.6-flash twice over the same eval suite — once with the skill loaded and once without — and compared the two runs case by case. 22 cases were attempted, and 15 counted toward the lift figure. The other 7 produced results that are not comparable between the two arms, so they are excluded from the headline rather than averaged into it. The headline lift of +18 percentage points is the difference between those two pass rates over the 15 comparable cases.
Without the skill loaded, the model failed this case. With it loaded, the same prompt on the same model passed. This is one improved case from the latest verified run; every case, including any that regressed, is in the table above.
| Model | Method | Date | Lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| gemini-3.6-flash | verified | 8/21/2026 | +14% |
Other measured skills in the registry, with their headline benchmark lift.