Onboarding

Onboarding is an Automation skill for Claude Code, published by huytieu in COG-second-brain.

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Install Onboarding

Copy Onboarding 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/huytieu/COG-second-brain/tree/main/skills/onboarding ~/.claude/skills/onboarding

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/huytieu/COG-second-brain.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: skills/onboarding/SKILL.md in huytieu/COG-second-brain
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/onboarding
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Automation — 1523 skills

What Onboarding does

Onboarding collects your name, role, interests, and optional watchlist details to personalize COG. Use it first when setting up a new vault or updating your profile files.

Onboarding is cataloged under Automation on DirSkills. Onboarding comes from a repository tagged agent-loop, agent-plugins, agent-skills, agentic and ai-agents.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

User explicitly requests /onboarding or mentions "onboarding" or "setup COG"
User is new and hasn't completed onboarding yet
User wants to update their profile or add new projects
Any time profile customization is needed

Core Design Principle: Smart, Low-Friction Onboarding

The onboarding MUST feel like a natural conversation, NOT a form to fill out.

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

Commands Onboarding provides

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

/onboarding

Frequently asked about Onboarding

What else does huytieu publish alongside Onboarding?
Onboarding is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from huytieu/COG-second-brain, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Auto Research, Braindump and Closed-Loop Execute. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Onboarding does, and is maintained by huytieu in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the huytieu/COG-second-brain page.
How does Onboarding compare to other Automation skills?
Onboarding ranks #902 by stars among the 1523 Automation skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Autonomous Loops, Autonomous Agent Harness and Automation Audit Ops. 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 Onboarding against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.