onboarding SKILL.md skillA

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onboarding from huytieu/cog-second-brain is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add huytieu/cog-second-brain/onboarding@git:20260818.622a5e5

Pins git:20260818.622a5e5 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
huytieu/cog-second-brain
Path
skills/onboarding/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
2
Latest version
git:20260818.622a5e5, committed Aug 18, 2026
First version recorded
Aug 7, 2026
Size
12,540 bytes
Repository stars
1,329
License
MIT

Personalize COG for your workflow - creates profile, interests, and watchlist files with guided setup (run this first!).

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

# COG Onboarding Skill

## Purpose
Welcome new users and collect essential information to personalize their COG experience. All configuration is stored as natural markdown files within the vault structure, following COG's philosophy of transparent, editable knowledge.

## When to Invoke
- User explicitly requests `/onboarding` or mentions "onboarding" or "setup COG"
- User is new and hasn't completed onboarding yet
- User wants to update their profile or add new projects
- Any time profile customization is needed

## Core Design Principle: Smart, Low-Friction Onboarding

**The onboarding MUST feel like a natural conversation, NOT a form to fill out.**

Key rules:
- **Ask open-ended questions, not option-pickers.** Never present numbered lists of choices for the user to pick from.
- **Ask as few questions as possible.** Infer what you can from context and the user's natural responses.
- **Never ask redundant questions.** If you can extract the answer from something the user already said, don't ask again.
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add huytieu/cog-second-brain/onboarding@sha256:cc6b2497168b71ec

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260818.622a5e5, 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.

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Versions

The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Aug 7, 2026 and Aug 18, 2026, about one every 11 days.

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Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (12540 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

GitHub

huytieu/cog-second-brain · 1,329 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-23 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_keni5okytasaba66
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=huytieu/cog-second-brain/onboarding
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/cc6b2497168b71ec7d299e096289e57f6394294fca67a29bcc5722bea1e58531

Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.

Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.

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