understand-onboard
Use when you need to generate an onboarding guide for new team members joining a project
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Discovery
40%Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.
The description is minimal and lacks specificity about what the skill actually produces or what concrete actions it performs. While it does include a 'Use when...' trigger clause, the absence of detailed capabilities makes it difficult for Claude to confidently select this skill over other documentation-related skills. The trigger terms are reasonable but incomplete.
Suggestions
Add specific concrete actions the skill performs, e.g., 'Generates onboarding guides that cover codebase architecture, environment setup, key workflows, team contacts, and coding conventions.'
Expand trigger terms to include natural variations like 'new hire', 'getting started guide', 'developer onboarding', 'team introduction', 'setup instructions'.
Rewrite to clearly separate 'what' from 'when', e.g., 'Generates comprehensive onboarding documentation including environment setup, codebase overview, and team workflows. Use when a new team member joins a project or when the user asks for onboarding materials, getting started guides, or new hire documentation.'
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Specificity | The description does not list any concrete actions or capabilities. It only vaguely refers to generating an 'onboarding guide' without specifying what that entails (e.g., documenting codebase structure, listing key contacts, setting up dev environment, etc.). | 1 / 3 |
Completeness | It provides a 'Use when...' clause addressing when to use the skill, but the 'what does this do' part is extremely thin — it only says 'generate an onboarding guide' without describing what the guide contains or what actions the skill performs. | 2 / 3 |
Trigger Term Quality | It includes some natural keywords like 'onboarding guide', 'new team members', and 'project' that users might say. However, it misses common variations such as 'getting started', 'new hire', 'setup guide', 'team introduction', or 'developer onboarding'. | 2 / 3 |
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk | While 'onboarding guide' is somewhat specific, it could overlap with general documentation generation skills, project overview skills, or README generation skills. The description doesn't carve out a clear enough niche. | 2 / 3 |
Total | 7 / 12 Passed |
Implementation
50%Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.
This skill provides a well-structured workflow for generating onboarding guides from a knowledge graph, with clear step sequencing and useful graph structure documentation. However, it lacks concrete executable examples (actual grep patterns, sample output templates), validation checkpoints for error cases, and could benefit from splitting the graph reference into a separate file. The actionability would improve significantly with a sample onboarding guide template and specific tool invocation examples.
Suggestions
Add concrete grep command examples, e.g., `Grep for '"type": "file"' in .understand-anything/knowledge-graph.json` to make steps 2-6 immediately actionable.
Include a sample markdown template or skeleton showing the expected output format for the onboarding guide, so the generated output is consistent.
Add validation checkpoints: verify the knowledge graph has layers/tour before proceeding, and handle cases where these sections are empty or missing.
Consider extracting the Graph Structure Reference into a separate GRAPH_SCHEMA.md file and referencing it from the skill to improve progressive disclosure and reduce inline bulk.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The Graph Structure Reference section is useful context Claude wouldn't inherently know, but some parts are slightly verbose (e.g., listing every possible node type and edge type exhaustively). The 'How to Read Efficiently' section adds value but tip #3 is somewhat obvious for Claude. | 2 / 3 |
Actionability | The instructions provide a clear sequence of what to do, but lack concrete executable examples. There are no actual grep commands, no example output format, and no sample markdown template for the generated guide. The guidance is specific in intent but not copy-paste ready. | 2 / 3 |
Workflow Clarity | Steps are clearly numbered and sequenced with a logical flow from reading data to generating output. However, there are no validation checkpoints — no step to verify the graph is well-formed, no check that layers/tour exist before relying on them, and no error handling if sections are missing or malformed. | 2 / 3 |
Progressive Disclosure | The content is reasonably well-structured with distinct sections (reference, reading tips, instructions), but the Graph Structure Reference is quite detailed inline when it could be in a separate reference file. No bundle files are provided, so there's no progressive disclosure to external references despite the content length warranting it. | 2 / 3 |
Total | 8 / 12 Passed |
Validation
100%Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.
Validation — 11 / 11 Passed
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