vertical-onboarding SKILL.md skillA
vertical-onboarding from avelikiy/great_cto is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add avelikiy/great_cto/vertical-onboarding@git:20260706.25c1763Pins git:20260706.25c1763 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- avelikiy/great_cto
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skills/vertical-onboarding/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260706.25c1763, committed Jul 6, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jun 21, 2026
- Size
- 4,127 bytes
- Repository stars
- 112
- License
- MIT
Onboarding-and-switching playbook for SMB Product-Builder products. Defines the first-run experience that turns a prospect leaving an incumbent (ServiceTitan/Toast/Mindbody/Shopify/QuickBooks) into an activated user — import-first onboarding, the activation milestone, sample-data fallback, and the time-to-first-value target. Applied by migration-import-engineer and architect/pm so onboarding is designed as a funnel, not an afterthought. Our whole wedge is "low switching cost"; this skill makes…
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
# Vertical onboarding — switch them in, to first value, fast
The incumbent's moat is switching cost. Our wedge is dissolving it. Onboarding is where
that promise is kept or broken. **Design onboarding as a funnel with one activation
milestone, import-first.**
## 1. Import-first, not blank-slate
The default first-run path is **"bring your data from {incumbent}"**, powered by
`migration-import-engineer`'s import contract — not an empty dashboard the user must fill
by hand. A new user should see *their own* customers/jobs/menu/listings within minutes.
- Offer the import on screen one, with the named incumbent ("Import from ServiceTitan").
- Run it as a dry-run preview the user approves (the import contract's operator step).
- Provide a **sample-data fallback** ("Explore with example data") for users who can't
export yet — never a dead empty state.
## 2. One activation milestone (define it per product)
Pick the single action that means "this user got value" — the north-star of onboarding.
Everything in first-run drives toward it. Examples:
| product | activation milestone |
|---|---|
| quoting (home services) | sent first priced quote |
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add avelikiy/great_cto/vertical-onboarding@sha256:5bb84e3ccceab288The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260706.25c1763, 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 Jun 21, 2026 and Jul 6, 2026, about one every 15 days.
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| git:20260706.25c1763 latest | 2026-07-06 | 25c1763 | 4,127 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260621.5a3d9b2 | 2026-06-21 | 5a3d9b2 | 4,123 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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- 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
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Source
avelikiy/great_cto · 112 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-06 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_lgbaqbz3gxazhoq7 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=avelikiy/great_cto/vertical-onboarding GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/5bb84e3ccceab28846561ee2769b0e926c6654b4eb7559438cd7a26f0e858d60
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