Agent skill

team-onboarding

Comprehensive onboarding methodology for new team members covering pre-boarding through 90-day milestones. Use when planning onboarding, creating checklists, or establishing team integration processes.

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SKILL.md

Team Onboarding

Pre-Onboarding

  • Create accounts (email, Slack, GitHub, AWS, etc.) with SSO/2FA
  • Prepare hardware, temporary credentials, password manager guide
  • Compile role-specific docs, update org charts
  • Configure calendar with initial meetings

Week 1: Orientation & Immersion

Day 1: Manager welcome, team intros, role expectations, IT setup, HR paperwork

Codebase:

  • Architecture overview and system diagrams
  • Main repos walkthrough with tech lead
  • Dev workflow, branching strategy, code style
  • CI/CD, deployment, monitoring tour

First Contributions:

  • "Good first issues" tasks
  • Pair programming on simple fix
  • Submit first PR with buddy guidance

Dev Environment Setup

  • IDE + extensions, linters, formatters, debugger, git config
  • Database connections (read-only initially), API keys via secrets manager
  • Container setup, testing framework, staging access

Buddy System

Week Frequency Activities Time
1 Daily Check-in, pair programming 2 hrs/day
2-3 3x/week Code review, architecture 1 hr/day
4 2x/week Project collaboration 30 min/day
5-8 Weekly Progress check-in 1 hr/week
9-12 Bi-weekly Mentorship transition 30 min/week

Milestones

30-Day

  • Complete mandatory training, merge 3+ PRs
  • Document one process, present learnings (10 min)

60-Day

  • Own small feature end-to-end, shadow on-call
  • Contribute to technical design, cross-team relationships

90-Day

  • Independent feature delivery, active code review
  • Mentor newer member, propose process improvement

Example Plans

Software Engineer (30/60/90)

Day 1-7: IT setup, team intros, dev env, first PR, architecture sessions Week 2-4: 5+ PR reviews as observer, shadow senior, document unclear process Day 31-60: Own first feature, design review, shadow on-call, pair with 3+ members Day 61-90: Lead small project, participate in planning, handle on-call with supervision

Senior/Lead Engineer (Accelerated)

Week 1: Leadership intros, full architecture deep-dive, priorities briefing, stakeholder meetings Week 2-3: Review postmortems, analyze tech debt, audit processes, identify quick wins Week 4: Lead first ceremony, own critical decision, establish 1:1 cadence, submit architectural proposal

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