Onboard Repository

Onboard Repository is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by hoangnb24 in repository-harness.

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Install Onboard Repository

Copy Onboard Repository 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/hoangnb24/repository-harness/tree/main/.agents/skills/onboard-repository ~/.claude/skills/onboard-repository

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/hoangnb24/repository-harness.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: .agents/skills/onboard-repository/SKILL.md in hoangnb24/repository-harness
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/onboard-repository
Collection: One of 5 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What Onboard Repository does

Onboard Repository inspects an unfamiliar or brownfield repository, traces one real operational path, and proposes evidence-backed improvements that help future agents work independently. Use it when asked to onboard, map, assess, or backfill agent-facing repository guidance.

Onboard Repository is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Onboard Repository comes from a repository tagged agents-md, ai-agents, ai-assisted-development, claude-code and codex.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Onboard Repository

Turn an unfamiliar repository into a verified map for future work. Treat the repository as the system of record. Separate facts from gaps and suggestions.

Safety Contract

The first pass is always inspection and proposal only, even when the worktree is writable.

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Commands Onboard Repository provides

Slash commands named in this skill’s SKILL.md, listed in the order they first appear.

/trap

Frequently asked about Onboard Repository

What else does hoangnb24 publish alongside Onboard Repository?
Onboard Repository is one of 5 skills that DirSkills catalogs from hoangnb24/repository-harness, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Audit Onboarding Proposal, Encode Invariant and Engineering Wisdom. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Onboard Repository does, and is maintained by hoangnb24 in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the hoangnb24/repository-harness page.
How does Onboard Repository compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Onboard Repository ranks #1192 by stars among the 2451 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. 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 Repository against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.