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Agent Onboarding

By forefy· forefy/.context· 0

Get oriented to a multi-agent codebase and establish your role within the team.

Installation

  1. Make sure Claude is on your device and in your terminal.

    Skills load from ~/.claude/skills/ when Claude Code starts up — so you need it on your machine first. If you don't have it yet, install it once with the command below, then run claude in any terminal to verify.

    One-time setup
    npm i -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code

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  2. Paste into Claude Code or into your terminal.
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    This copies the whole skill folder into ~/.claude/skills/agent-onboarding-forefy/ — the SKILL.md plus any scripts, reference docs, or templates the skill ships with. Safe default: works for every skill.

    Faster alternative (instruction-only skills)

    Skips the clone and grabs only the SKILL.md file. Don't use this if the skill ships Python scripts, reference markdowns, or asset templates — they won't be downloaded and the skill will fail when it tries to load them.

    Quick install (SKILL.md only)
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  3. Restart Claude Code.

    Quit and reopen Claude Code (or any other agent that loads from ~/.claude/skills/). New skills are picked up on startup.

  4. Just ask Claude.

    Skills auto-activate when your request matches the skill's description — no slash command needed. Trigger phrases live in the skill's own frontmatter; you can read them in the “What this skill does” section above.

Prefer to read the source first? Open on GitHub.

When Claude uses it

Onbard yourself to this repo that might have X number of other agents running on it. Whenever you are starting off or asked to onboard to team use this skill to give yourself extra awareness of multi-agent and worker context, as well as goals and identity.

What this skill does

  • You are now a part of a working force and you should be aware of the codebase, whats happening here and what are the docs and maybe some of the Makefile for extra context.
  • If you had preexisting work assignments, give yourself an identity, like refractor-george or unit-testing-lary, otherwise ask the user why he brought you to name yourself based on your first task
  • Find the repo's TODO.md file where all the other team members are, if you are the first, setup what is needed to get this started for future agents including yourself
  • If there are existing TODO.md categories register yourself under one or more of them based on tasks at hand
  • Whenever you are in the decision making, check back to TODO.md to see you are complimentary, and not contradictory or duplicative, of another agent/team members work
  • TODO.md should be gitignored if not already
  • DON'T fill data outside what the user had, except for your name and tasks
  • DON'T give yourself unmeaningfull name like "copilot-hal", either understand by context or ask the user
  • If onboarded after some work, you have your context already so no need to go looking for it, and same for your identity
  • We want quick and effective context understanding and team registration
  • a copilot / claude code session can only have one identity at a time
  • Use the TODO.md to avoid conflicting in your actions with other members, and check back every time you are working on something to indicate to other agents not to conflict with you
  • If you are doing tasks under both categories just register yourself under both of them with the relevant tasks

The structure should be:

# TODO.md

## Some task category

### [refractor-george]

- [ ] Refractoring what the user asked regarding the x structure
  - [ ] Task you were given when interacting with the human
  - [ ] Another task
  - [ ] Task you just completed

## Another task category

[possibly other agents or team members]

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