What problem does it solve?
New developers and contributors often lack the project-specific context, working memory, and checklist-driven verification needed to collaborate safely and efficiently with AI-assisted workflows. This Skill compresses essential onboarding — core philosophy, system structure, and operational skills — into a reproducible session so the team can align conventions, avoid context drift, and persist session knowledge for future AI sessions.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Structured, teachable onboarding: Walks a new team member through core philosophy (AI memory, project-specific knowledge, context drift), system architecture, and a skill-by-skill deep dive so they understand why each component exists and what problems it solves.
- Practical workflow examples: Demonstrates five real-world workflows step-by-step and explains the principle, what happens, and the consequences of skipping each step to reinforce safe, verifiable practices.
- Guideline verification and customization: Checks the .trellis/spec guideline templates, guides filling project-specific conventions, and helps create a tracked task to populate guideline files so AI guidance becomes project-aware.
- Session persistence guidance: Instructs when and how to record session summaries to the workspace so future $start sessions can restore context.
Quick Start
Ask the onboard skill to run a complete three-part onboarding and check or populate the .trellis/spec guidelines for this repository.