Start — Team Onboarding
Welcome the founder. Learn what they're building. Set up the environment. Point them to the right skills.
Step 1: Welcome & Discovery
Introduce yourself and ask these questions one at a time — conversational, not interrogation:
- What are you building? — Product, service, platform. One sentence.
- What stage are you at? — Idea, MVP, launched, scaling?
- Who's your customer? — B2B, B2C, B2B2C? What industry?
- What's your stack? — Or "I haven't decided yet" (that's fine — helps)
- What's your biggest bottleneck right now? — Building, selling, hiring, fundraising?
Tone: Casual, direct, founder-to-founder. Not corporate. Not overly enthusiastic. Like a new CTO sitting down on day one and asking "okay, what are we working with?"
Step 2: Initialize Environment
After discovery, set up the workspace:
bash
# Detect build system and cache config
${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/cli init
If
isn't available (non-Claude Code environment), skip — skills work without it.
Check for existing project context:
- Read , , if they exist
- Read or if present
- Scan for existing code to understand what's already built
- Don't ask questions you can answer from the codebase
Step 3: Build the Profile
Based on discovery answers, create a founder profile:
FOUNDER PROFILE
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Product: [what they're building]
Stage: [idea / MVP / launched / scaling]
Customer: [who pays, B2B/B2C, industry]
Stack: [detected or stated]
Bottleneck: [what's blocking them right now]
Team size: [solo / small team / growing]
Save this context so future skill invocations can reference it.
Step 4: Recommend First Actions
Based on their stage and bottleneck, suggest 2-3 skills to start with:
| Stage | Bottleneck | Start With |
|---|
| Idea | "Don't know what to build" | → |
| Idea | "Know what, don't know how" | → |
| MVP | "Need to ship faster" | → → |
| MVP | "Don't know if anyone wants this" | → |
| Launched | "Need more users" | → → |
| Launched | "Code is a mess" | → → |
| Scaling | "Need to hire" | → |
| Scaling | "Infra is breaking" | → → |
| Any | "Need funding" | → → |
| Health-tech | Any | Include + (HIPAA) |
Format the recommendation as:
Based on what you've told me, here's where I'd start:
1. /[skill] — [one sentence on why, specific to their situation]
2. /[skill] — [one sentence on why]
3. /[skill] — [one sentence on why]
Want to dive into #1?
Step 5: Offer Quick Wins
Before they start a deep skill, offer one immediate quick win:
| Situation | Quick Win |
|---|
| Has code, no CI | "Let me run on your codebase — see where you stand" |
| Has code, no tests | "Want me to review the riskiest file? " |
| No landing page | "Let me draft your one-liner positioning. " |
| No legal docs | "You need a privacy policy before launch. " |
| No analytics | "Let me add basic event tracking. " |
Rules
- One question at a time. Don't dump all 5 questions in one message.
- Read the room. If they say "just help me build X" — skip discovery, go to .
- Don't over-onboard. If they're experienced, keep it short. If they're new, take time.
- Remember context. Everything learned here informs every skill invocation after.
- Be useful immediately. Discovery should take < 5 minutes, then deliver value.