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onboarding-agent

by openhandsProductivity & Automation

Interactive onboarding workflow that interviews users to understand their coding goals and generates PR-ready implementation plans. Use when starting a new development task to ensure clear requirements and structured execution.

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Install

Works with every agent the skills CLI supports.

npx skills add https://github.com/openhands/extensions --skill onboarding-agent
  1. 01

    Install

    Run the command in your project. The CLI asks which agents to install for.

  2. 02

    Describe the task

    Ask your agent for something this skill covers. It loads onboarding-agent automatically when relevant.

  3. 03

    Review the result

    The agent follows the SKILL.md steps, scripts and references bundled with the skill.

SKILL.md

The instructions your agent reads when the skill is triggered.

First-time User Conversation with OpenHands

Skill purpose

In <= 5 progressive questions, interview the user to identify their coding goal and constraints, then generate a concrete, step-by-step plan that maximizes the likelihood of a successful pull request (PR). Finish by asking: “Do you want me to execute the plan?”

Guardrails

  • Ask no more than 5 questions total (stop early if you have enough info).
  • Progressive: each next question builds on the previous answer.
  • Keep questions concise (<= 2 sentences each). Offer options when useful.
  • If the user is uncertain, propose reasonable defaults and continue.
  • Stop once you have enough info to create a specific PR-ready plan.
  • NEVER push directly to the main or master branch. Do not automatically commit any changes to the repo.

Interview Flow

First question - always start here

“Great — what are you trying to build or change, in one or two sentences? (e.g., add an endpoint, fix a bug, write a script, tweak UI)”

Dynamic follow-up questions

Choose the next question based on what's most relevant from the last reply. Use one at a time - no more than 5 total.

1. Repo & Runtime Context

  • “Where will this live? Repo/name or link, language/runtime, and framework (if any)?”
  • “How do you run and test locally? (package manager, build tool, dev server, docker compose?)”

2. Scope & Acceptance Criteria

  • “What's the smallest valuable change we can ship first? Describe the exact behavior or API/CLI/UI change and how we’ll verify it.”
  • “Any non-negotiables? (performance, accessibility, security, backwards-compatibility)”

3. Interfaces & Data

  • “Which interfaces are affected? (files, modules, routes, DB tables, events, components)”
  • “Do we need new schema/DTOs, migrations, or mock data?”

4. Testing & Tooling

  • “What tests should prove it works (unit/integration/e2e)? Which test framework, and any CI requirements?”

5. Final Clarifier

If critical information is missing, ask one short, blocking question. If not, skip directly to the plan.

Plan Generation (After Questions)

Produce a PR-ready plan customized to the user’s answers, in this structure:

1. Goal & Success Criteria

  • One-sentence goal.
  • Bullet acceptance tests (observable behaviors or API/CLI examples).

2. Scope of Change

  • Files/modules to add or modify (with paths and stubs if known).
  • Public interfaces (function signatures, routes, migrations) with brief specs.

3. Implementation Steps

  • Branch creation and environment setup commands.
  • Code tasks broken into <= 8 bite-sized commits.
  • Any scaffolding or codegen commands.

4. Testing Plan

  • Tests to write, where they live, and example test names.
  • How to run them locally and in CI (with exact commands).
  • Sample fixtures/mocks or seed data.

5. Quality Gates & Tooling

  • Lint/format/type-check commands.
  • Security/performance checks if relevant.
  • Accessibility checks for UI work.

6. Risks & Mitigations

  • Top 3 risks + how to detect or rollback.
  • Mention feature flag/env toggle if applicable.

7. Timeline & Next Steps

  • Rough estimate (S/M/L) with ordered sequence.
  • Call out anything explicitly out of scope.

Final Question

“Do you want me to execute the plan?”

FAQ

What does the onboarding-agent skill do?

Interactive onboarding workflow that interviews users to understand their coding goals and generates PR-ready implementation plans. Use when starting a new development task to ensure clear requirements and structured execution.

How do I install onboarding-agent?

Run npx skills add https://github.com/openhands/extensions --skill onboarding-agent in your project. The skills CLI detects the agents you use and copies the skill into the right folder. For Claude Code you can also place the skill folder at ~/.claude/skills/onboarding-agent/ (personal) or .claude/skills/onboarding-agent/ (project).

Which AI agents can use onboarding-agent?

Any agent that supports the open Agent Skills format (a folder with a SKILL.md file), including Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, Windsurf, Cline, OpenCode and more.

Is onboarding-agent safe to install?

No partner security audit is available yet. Skills can run commands and scripts, so read the SKILL.md and any bundled files before installing.

Who maintains onboarding-agent?

It is published by openhands in openhands/extensions. It has 51 recorded installs.

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