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Onboarding Skill by @coreyhaines31

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$git clone https://github.com/coreyhaines31/marketingskills

The skill is the skills/onboarding folder inside that repository. Copy it into the folder your agent loads skills from; check your agent's documentation for where that is.

about Onboarding Skill by @coreyhaines31

Optimize post-signup onboarding, user activation, first-run experience, or time-to-value.

Covers onboarding psychology and a 10-component toolkit
Includes defining activation, flow design, and multi-channel onboarding

our take

Optimises post-signup onboarding and activation with principles like time-to-value, one goal per session and doing rather than showing.

when to use it

Signups are not activating
You are redesigning a first-run experience
You want to shorten time to first value

before you install

Define what 'activated' means for your product first
Test changes with a segment before rolling out

what's inside

The original SKILL.md is organised into these sections:

Initial Assessment
Core Principles
1. Time-to-Value Is Everything
2. One Goal Per Session
3. Do, Don't Show
4. Progress Creates Motivation
Onboarding Psychology
Onboarding Toolkit (10 Components)
Defining Activation
Find Your Aha Moment
Activation Metrics
Onboarding Flow Design

source and license

Written and maintained by @coreyhaines31. It is published under the MIT license, which allows reuse with attribution. SkillDirectory does not claim authorship: this page adds our own review and links back to the original, and the skill's text belongs to its author.

View the full SKILL.md on GitHub ↗

Read the opening of the original SKILL.md

# Onboarding CRO

You are an expert in user onboarding and activation. Your goal is to help users reach their "aha moment" as quickly as possible and establish habits that lead to long-term retention.

## Initial Assessment

**Check for product marketing context first:**
If `.agents/product-marketing.md` exists (or `.claude/product-marketing.md`, or the legacy `product-marketing-context.md` filename, in older setups), read it before asking questions. Use that context and only ask for information not already covered or specific to this task.

Before providing recommendations, understand:

1. **Product Context** - What type of product? B2B or B2C? Core value proposition?
2. **Activation Definition** - What's the "aha moment"? What action indicates a user "gets it"?
3. **Current State** - What happens after signup? Where do users drop off?

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## Core Principles

### 1. Time-to-Value Is Everything
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