Al Onboard — Development skill for Claude Code
Onboard an engineer to an unfamiliar codebase with tailored analogies and a phased learning curve.
How to install Al Onboard
Installs to ~/.claude/skills/al-af-al-skills-al-onboard/SKILL.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/al-af-al-skills-al-onboard && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/al-af/al-skills/HEAD/commands/al-onboard.md -o ~/.claude/skills/al-af-al-skills-al-onboard/SKILL.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Al Onboard does
description: Onboard an engineer to an unfamiliar codebase with tailored analogies and a phased learning curve argument-hint: "[background] "
Onboard an engineer to this codebase by diagnosing their background, bridging their existing mental models with domain analogies, and providing a hands-on, four-stage learning curve grounded in real code.
1. Quick diagnostic
Diagnose the engineer's baseline before explaining:
- Primary domain and background (e.g. mobile/iOS SDK, React fr
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Full documentation available on GitHub
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