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Onboard

by PerpetualSoftware

Onboard is a DevOps skill for Claude Code, published by PerpetualSoftware in pad.

169 stars22 forkson PerpetualSoftware/padAdded 2026/09/08+15% in starsRepository updated 2026/09/07
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Install Onboard
Copy Onboard into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.
terminal
npx degit https://github.com/PerpetualSoftware/pad/tree/main/plugin/skills/onboard ~/.claude/skills/onboard

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/PerpetualSoftware/pad.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file
plugin/skills/onboard/SKILL.md in PerpetualSoftware/pad
Installs to
~/.claude/skills/onboard
Collection
One of 7 skills cataloged from this repository
Category
DevOps — 1075 skills

What Onboard does

Onboard links a project to a Pad workspace, activates the onboarding playbook, and runs the workspace setup flow. Use it when a project needs Pad authentication, workspace initialization, or first-time bootstrapping.

Onboard is cataloged under DevOps on DirSkills. Onboard comes from a repository tagged agent-era, agent-tools, ai-agents, claude-code and cli.

Frequently asked about Onboard

  • What else does PerpetualSoftware publish alongside Onboard?

    Onboard is one of 7 skills that DirSkills catalogs from PerpetualSoftware/pad, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Capture, Connect and Disconnect. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Onboard does, and is maintained by PerpetualSoftware in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the PerpetualSoftware/pad page.

  • How does Onboard compare to other DevOps skills?

    Onboard ranks #984 by stars among the 1075 DevOps skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Backend Patterns, API Connector Builder and Migration. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Onboard against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.

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