onboarding-buddy-plan
Design the buddy system that makes new-hire onboarding human — the buddy's actual job (context and safety, not training), the 30-day touchpoint plan, the ask-me-anything contract, and the buddy selection that avoids the two classic miscasts. Use when asked set up an onboarding buddy program, I'm buddying the new hire what do I do, our onboarding is docs with no humans, or the new person is drowning quietly. Produces the buddy role definition, the touchpoint schedule, the first-week script, and the escalation line.
npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill onboarding-buddy-plan --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Onboarding Buddy Plan Skill Onboarding docs answer the documented questions; the buddy exists for the *undocumented* ones — "who actually decides this," "is it normal that nobody replied," "can I ask the VP directly or is that weird" — the questions new hires won't ask their manager because every one feels like an admission. The buddy's job is context and psychological safety, explicitly *not* training (that's the manager's and the docs' job — miscasting the buddy as trainer burns them out and confuses accountability). The plan makes the role concrete: selection, the touchpoint arc, the safety contract, and the line where buddy concerns route onward. ## What This Skill Produces - **The role definition** — what the buddy owns (context, norms, safety-net), what they don't (tasks, evaluation, training) - **The touchpoint arc** — day 1, daily-ish week one, weekly to day 30, with each conversation's actual purpose - **The first-week script** — the walkthroughs that matter: the unwritten norms, the who's-who, the [working-agreements](../working-agreements/SKILL.md) tour - **The escalation line** — what the buddy notices and where it goes (struggling ≠ snitching; the line is drawn caref
- What This Skill Produces
- Required Inputs
- Framework: The Plan Rules
- Output Format
- The Role Split
- The Arc
- First-Week Curriculum
- The Safety Contract + Escalation Line
- Quality Checks
- Anti-Patterns
What does the onboarding-buddy-plan skill do?
Design the buddy system that makes new-hire onboarding human — the buddy's actual job (context and safety, not training), the 30-day touchpoint plan, the ask-me-anything contract, and the buddy selection that avoids the two classic miscasts. Use when asked set up an onboarding buddy program, I'm buddying the new hire what do I do, our onboarding is docs with no humans, or the new person is drowning quietly. Produces the buddy role definition, the touchpoint schedule, the first-week script, and the escalation line.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill onboarding-buddy-plan --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills, a repository with 1,255 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.