onboard — independently scanned and version-tracked by SaferSkills.
SaferSkills independently audited onboard (Agent Skill) and scored it 100/100 (green). The audit ran 55 deterministic rules across Security, Supply Chain, Maintenance, Transparency, and Community; it found 0 high-severity and 0 lower-severity findings. The full rule-by-rule trace and per-finding evidence are below. Free, methodology-open.
Findings & checks · 0 flagged
Every scanned point with the score it earned and what moved between them.
First recorded scan — no prior version to compare against.
The primary manifest — the file an agent reads to learn what this artifact does.
Fixes: new-user churn documented in MindStudio's Claude Code onboarding analysis and Medium "I installed 40 skills and Claude got worse" reports — users install too many skills at once, can't tell what's working, and bounce.
"I followed a tutorial, installed 25 skills, and now Claude is noticeably slower and ignores half of them. I uninstalled everything." — common Medium / Reddit complaint, Dec 2025
The claude-papercuts plugin ships nine skills. Most users don't need all nine on day one. onboard is the curated install order: which skill solves which problem, in priority order, with a one-sentence "why" each.
Runs the bundled recommend.py, which:
${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/onboard/recommend.pyforward the matching flag:
${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/onboard/recommend.py --nextrun YOLO mode, ship code Claude wrote, author skills, etc.)
that match their workflow.
we're advisors, not installers.
| # | Skill | When to enable |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | safe-shell | Always first — irreversible-command refusal, no downside |
| 2 | token-x-ray | Visibility into what's eating your context — informs all other decisions |
| 3 | amnesia-fix | If you run >1 Claude session per day |
| 4 | compact-guard | If you ever hit /compact (most users will) |
| 5 | done-prover | If you ship code Claude writes (high-impact, mildly noisy) |
| 6 | unclear | If you've ever run /clear and regretted it |
| 7 | skill-doctor | If you author your own SKILL.md files |
| 8 | skill-budget | If you have 10+ skills installed |
| 9 | subagent-broker | Power-user — multi-stage agentic delegation |
/claude-papercuts:onboardthe recommendation to their actual workflow after running the script.
ecosystem recommendations, point users at https://github.com/dhruba-datta/claude-papercuts/discussions.
# Full walkthrough
${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/onboard/recommend.py
# Just the next skill to enable
${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/onboard/recommend.py --next
# Machine-readable JSON
${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/onboard/recommend.py --jsonIf the claude-papercuts plugin grows past nine skills, the recommendation list needs to be re-curated. This file's SKILLS list is the source of truth.
~30 seconds. Free. No account. Every finding cites a rule and a line of evidence.