onboarding-to-a-project SKILL.md skillA
onboarding-to-a-project from brandonfla/bearpaws is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add brandonfla/bearpaws/onboarding-to-a-project@git:20261103.b29db48Pins git:20261103.b29db48 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- brandonfla/bearpaws
- Path
skills/onboarding-to-a-project/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 4
- Latest version
- git:20261103.b29db48, committed Nov 3, 2026
- First version recorded
- May 1, 2026
- Size
- 6,064 bytes
- Repository stars
- 4
- License
- MIT
Applies when a session involves an existing codebase or project context and onboarding should occur prior to brainstorming or implementation. Skip for purely abstract design discussion with no project to onboard to, or if the project was already onboarded earlier in the session.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
<skill>
<purpose>
Stack-agnostic onboarding that runs **before** any creative or implementation work. Detect what's actually there, read the team's conventions, sample similar files. The order matters: if you start writing code without first reading the project's existing patterns, your "best practice" suggestion can clash with the team's actual setup.
</purpose>
<triggers>
<rule>Use FIRST whenever there's an existing project context — including before brainstorming a feature for that project. Onboarding identifies what's there; brainstorming designs against it.</rule>
<rule>SKIP only for purely abstract design questions with no specific project ("how would I architect a system that does X?" with no project named). When the user references "my app", "this codebase", a directory, or any specific project — onboard.</rule>
<rule>SKIP if you've already onboarded this project earlier in the session — the conventions you discovered then still apply.</rule>
</triggers>
<warning level="hard">
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add brandonfla/bearpaws/onboarding-to-a-project@sha256:66686ed0566a098aThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261103.b29db48, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_jwecsto7wehcq6lx)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 4 versions of this file, between May 1, 2026 and Nov 3, 2026, about one every 62 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261103.b29db48 latest | 2026-11-03 | b29db48 | 6,064 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260502.6178f83 | 2026-05-02 | 6178f83 | 5,921 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260502.34f010c | 2026-05-02 | 34f010c | 6,049 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260501.88e4ec8 | 2026-05-01 | 88e4ec8 | 7,772 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (6064 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
brandonfla/bearpaws · 4 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-05 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_jwecsto7wehcq6lx GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=brandonfla/bearpaws/onboarding-to-a-project GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/66686ed0566a098ac4df66aea8fcb4f8a67b924012f215e0b9347be8a7c4b3eb
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