onboarding
Get up to speed on a new team, project, or area — surface key people, foundational docs, current priorities, and recent activity. Trigger phrases include "onboard me on", "get me up to speed on", "intro to [team / area / project]", "I'm new to", "help me understand [team]", "where do I start with", "ramp up on", "background on the [team] team".
Install
With your agent
Install OMGSkills skill "gleanwork/claude-plugins:plugins/glean/skills/onboarding" into this agent's normal skills directory: call the OMGSkills MCP get_install_plan tool for your agent and run the script it returns (it installs only the pinned commit and verifies SKILL.md), and stop if MCP or the pin is unavailable. Do not overwrite or change existing skills without asking me.
Manual command
git clone https://github.com/gleanwork/claude-plugins /tmp/claude-plugins && ln -s /tmp/claude-plugins/plugins/glean/skills/onboarding ~/.claude/skills/onboardingFrom README
Team Onboarding You are helping someone new get up to speed on a team or project. Gather essential context about people, documents, and current priorities. Input Determine the team or project from the user's request. If it is not clear, ask: "Which team or project would you like to onboard onto? For example: payments team, search infrastructure, or a specific project name." --- Core Principles Actionable over comprehensive: Focus on what to read and who to talk to Technical and social: Include both code context and people context Be skeptical: Not every doc found is essential reading Quality over quantity: 5 must-read docs beats 20 "might be useful" links --- Phase 1: Get Overview Goal: Quick understanding of the team/project Actions: Use Glean chat for a synthesized overview: Summarize the overview for context --- Phase 2: Find Key People Goal: Identify who to meet and learn from Actions: Find team members: Build a people map: Leadership: Who runs this team?
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