What do I need to use Onboarding Buddy Plan?

The new hire's shape; The buddy candidates; What onboarding already covers; The team's honest quirks (optional).

Is Onboarding Buddy Plan free to use?

Yes — run it free in the browser playground (no API key needed for the sponsored trial, or bring any provider key), or install it into Claude Code, Cursor, ChatGPT and more via npx pm-claude-skills. MIT-licensed and open source.

Onboarding Buddy Plan

Q: How do I know the Onboarding Buddy Plan output is good?

The skill verifies itself against its own quality checks: The buddy is neither the manager nor the overloaded star; The safety contract is spoken, with its exception honest; Touchpoints front-load and each has a purpose beyond "checking in"; The unwritten-norms list and askable map are actually written for the buddy.

🔵 Stable🕐 updated 2026-10-06 🔷 SkillSpec L3 pm-cowork

Design the buddy system that makes new-hire onboarding human — the buddy's actual job (context and safety, not training), the 30-day touchpoint plan, the ask-me-anything contract, and the buddy selection that avoids the two classic miscasts. Use when asked set up an onboarding buddy program, I'm buddying the new hire what do I do, our onboarding is docs with no humans, or the new person is drowning quietly. Produces the buddy role definition, the touchpoint schedule, the first-week script, and the escalation line.

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🗣 Say this to your agent

“Set up an onboarding buddy program.”“I'm buddying the new hire what do I do.”“Our onboarding is docs with no humans.”

What to give it

▸The new hire's shape — role, seniority, remote/local; a senior remote hire needs org-context density, a junior local one needs more safety-net

▸The buddy candidates — the selection rules screen for the two miscasts: not the manager (kills the safe-questions channel), not the busiest star (no time = guilt on both sides); the right buddy is adjacent-team-or-same-team, tenured 1–3 years (remembers being new), and genuinely willing

▸What onboarding already covers — the docs/training that exist; the buddy fills around them, not instead of them

▸The team's honest quirks (optional) — the unwritten rules a newcomer would violate innocently ("the 9am 'standup' is optional but the Thursday one isn't") — this list is the buddy's curriculum

✅ The bar it holds itself to

Every skill in this library self-verifies — these are this skill's own quality checks, straight from its definition.

✓The buddy is neither the manager nor the overloaded star

✓The safety contract is spoken, with its exception honest

✓Touchpoints front-load and each has a purpose beyond "checking in"

✓The unwritten-norms list and askable map are actually written for the buddy

✓The escalation line is known to both buddy and new hire

⚠️ What it refuses to do

Do not cast the manager as buddy — it deletes the safe channel the role exists for

Do not make the buddy the trainer — accountability blurs and the buddy burns out

Do not run buddyship on vibes — the arc and curriculum are what separate it from "lunch once"

Do not let the buddy report confidences — one leak ends the contract for the whole program

Do not stop at day 5 — week three is when the real questions arrive, to whoever's still showing up

Install

npx pm-claude-skills add --agent claude   # or codex · cursor · gemini · hermes
# or one-line MCP (every skill, any client):
claude mcp add pm-skills -- npx -y -p pm-claude-skills pm-claude-skills-mcp

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