onboard

User Guide

• When to use: Generates a contextual onboarding document for a new contributor or agent joining the project. Summarizes project state, architecture, conventions, and current priorities relevant to the specified role or area.
• Inputs: Command arguments: /onboard [role|area]; project artifacts referenced below; user decisions and approvals before writes.
• Outputs: Primary artifacts, reports, or conversation guidance described below; write files only after user approval.
• Memory-bank writes: None.
• Next steps: Follow the workflow hand-off or next-step guidance below; recommendations do not auto-run and require explicit user command/approval.

Phase 0: Domain Routing

Detect the project domain before generating onboarding material:

• design/cdd/game-concept.md -> [Game] onboard roles to game vision, CDDs, game pillars, engine setup, asset/content pipelines, playtest evidence, and team workflows.
• design/cdd/product-concept.md -> [Product] onboard roles to product principles, user promise, modules, APIs/CLIs, architecture, test/deploy workflow, observability, and support practices.
• If unclear, ask which domain and role the onboarding doc should target.

Preserve game role onboarding examples. Product onboarding is added as an equivalent path.

Phase 1: Load Project Context

Read AGENTS.md for project overview and standards.

Read the relevant agent definition from .codex/agents/ if a specific role is specified.

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Phase 2: Scan Relevant Area

• For programmers: scan src/ for architecture, patterns, key files
• For designers: scan design/ for existing design documents
• For narrative: scan design/narrative/ for world-building and story docs
• For QA: scan tests/ for existing test coverage
• For production: scan production/ for current sprint and milestone

Read recent changes (git log if available) to understand current momentum.

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Phase 3: Generate Onboarding Document

# Onboarding: [Role/Area]

## Project Summary
[2-3 sentence summary of what this game is and its current state]

## Your Role
[What this role does on this project, key responsibilities, who you report to]

## Project Architecture
[Relevant architectural overview for this role]

### Key Directories
| Directory | Contents | Your Interaction |
|-----------|----------|-----------------|

### Key Files
| File | Purpose | Read Priority |
|------|---------|--------------|

## Current Standards and Conventions
[Summary of conventions relevant to this role from AGENTS.md and agent definition]

## Current State of Your Area
[What has been built, what is in progress, what is planned next]

## Current Sprint Context
[What the team is working on now and what is expected of this role]

## Key Dependencies
[What other roles/systems this role interacts with most]

## Common Pitfalls
[Things that trip up new contributors in this area]

## First Tasks
[Suggested first tasks to get oriented and productive]

1. [Read these documents first]
2. [Review this code/content]
3. [Start with this small task]

## Questions to Ask
[Questions the new contributor should ask to get fully oriented]

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Phase 4: Save Document

Present the onboarding document to the user.

Ask: "May I write this to production/onboarding/onboard-[role]-[date].md?"

If yes, write the file, creating the directory if needed.

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Phase 5: Next Steps

Verdict: COMPLETE — onboarding document generated.

• Share the onboarding doc with the new contributor before their first session.
• Run /sprint-status to show the new contributor current progress.
• Run /help if the contributor needs guidance on what to work on next.