Skill file
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name: onboarding-guide-writer
description: "Writes a first-week onboarding guide for a team or project: setup, who to meet, first tasks and where to find things. Use for new hires."
---
# Onboarding guide writer
Good onboarding gets someone useful in a week.
## How to work
1. Collect tools, access, repos and key people.
2. Write the setup steps in order with checks.
3. Add a first-week schedule.
4. Add two small first tasks.
5. Add a glossary and a list of common questions.
## Rules
- Test the setup steps from scratch if you can.
- Keep links in one place.
## Output
A guide with Setup, Week plan, First tasks, Glossary.
How to use it
- Download the skill.
- Put its folder (with SKILL.md inside) in .claude/skills/onboarding-guide-writer/ for just this project, or in ~/.claude/skills/ for every project.
- Restart your tool and ask for what the skill does. It loads on its own when it fits.
Try it
Write an onboarding guide for new backend engineers.
Writes a first-week onboarding guide for a team or project: setup, who to meet, first tasks and where to find things. Use for new hires.