# onboarding-cro

Helps you design onboarding: welcome screens, setup wizards, product tours and checklists that carry a user to their first result.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 422 installs · ★ 721
- Author: OpenClaudia
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/OpenClaudia/openclaudia-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/onboarding-cro/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-21
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/openclaudia-onboarding-cro

## What it does

The skill hands your agent a set of frameworks for onboarding work. Inside are Jobs-To-Be-Done, progressive disclosure, and a walkthrough of how to find your activation metric and aha moment. The agent leans on these when you ask it to design a welcome screen, a setup wizard, a product tour or a first-steps checklist.

Each component gets its own section: welcome screens with 1–3 questions and a skip option, wizards of 3–5 steps with progress and pre-filled defaults, tours capped at 5 steps, checklists of 4–6 items. There are markup templates and examples from Notion, Slack, Dropbox and Figma. Anti-patterns are listed too — tours that show every button, screens you cannot dismiss.

The skill is text only, no code. It does not pull metrics or connect to your analytics, so you have to hand the agent your activation data yourself. It installs into Claude, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI and OpenCode.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add OpenClaudia/openclaudia-skills --skill onboarding-cro -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/onboarding-cro/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/onboarding-cro/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add OpenClaudia/openclaudia-skills --skill onboarding-cro -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/onboarding-cro/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add OpenClaudia/openclaudia-skills --skill onboarding-cro -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/onboarding-cro/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install OpenClaudia/openclaudia-skills onboarding-cro
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/onboarding-cro/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add OpenClaudia/openclaudia-skills --skill onboarding-cro -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/OpenClaudia/openclaudia-skills --path skills/onboarding-cro
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/onboarding-cro/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add OpenClaudia/openclaudia-skills --skill onboarding-cro -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/OpenClaudia/openclaudia-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/onboarding-cro/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- design a welcome screen that personalizes the first run
- build a 3–5 step setup wizard
- find your activation metric through cohort analysis
- pin down the aha moment for your product
- rewrite a product tour users keep dismissing

## Example prompts
- Design onboarding for a new user: welcome screen, wizard and first-steps checklist
- Help me find our activation metric with cohort analysis
- Build a product tour of no more than 5 steps around one workflow

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: onboarding-cro
description: >
  Improve user onboarding flows to increase activation and retention. Use when
  asked to design welcome screens, setup wizards, product tours, onboarding
  checklists, or activation sequences. Trigger phrases: "onboarding flow",
  "user activation", "welcome screen", "product tour", "onboarding checklist",
  "first-run experience", "setup wizard", "aha moment", "time to value",
  "user onboarding", "activation rate".
---

# Onboarding CRO

Design and optimize user onboarding flows that drive activation and long-term retention.

---

## 1. Onboarding Frameworks

### Jobs-To-Be-Done (JTBD) Onboarding

The best onboarding flows are organized around the user's job, not the product's features.

**Process:**
1. Identify the user's primary job-to-be-done
2. Map the minimum steps to complete that job in your product
3. Guide the user through those steps, removing all distractions
4. Celebrate completion (aha moment)

**Example (Notion):**
- Job: "I need to organize my team's projects"
- Steps: Create workspace > Invite team > Create first page > Use a template
- The onboarding flow guides exactly this path, nothing more

**Anti-pattern:** Feature tours that show every feature. Users do not care about features during onboarding; they care about solving their problem.

### Progressive Disclosure

Reveal functionality gradually as users demonstrate readiness.

**Levels:**
1. **First session:** Only show core functionality needed for primary job
2. **After first success:** Introduce secondary features that enhance the core workflow
3. **After repeated use:** Surface power features, integrations, customization
4. **After mastery:** Invite to advanced features, API, automation

**Implementation:**
- Use feature flags or user state to control what's visible
- Track user actions to determine when to advance disclosure level
- Never show everything at once

### Activation Metrics

Define your activation metric before designing onboarding. The activation metric is the action most correlated with long-term retention.

**Examples:**

| Product | Activation Metric | Timeframe |
|---------|------------------|-----------|
| Slack | Send 2,000 messages (team) | First 30 days |
| Dropbox | Upload 1 file from 2 devices | First 7 days |
| Facebook | Add 7 friends | First 10 days |
| Zoom | Host first meeting | First 7 days |
| Notion | Create 3 pages | First 7 days |
| Figma | Create first design | First 3 days |
| HubSpot | Import contacts + send first email | First 14 days |

**How to find your activation metric:**
1. Cohort analysis: Compare retained vs churned users
2. Identify actions that retained users took that churned users did not
3. Find the action with strongest correlation to 30-day retention
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