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Onboarding Buddy Plan
🔵 Stable🕐 updated 2026-07-19
🔷 SkillSpec L3
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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.
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 pm-claude-skills-mcpRelated skills
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