onboarding-coordination_skill

Overview

This skill automates developer onboarding with personalized plans, Linear integration, knowledge base setup, and milestone tracking. It streamlines pre-boarding, Day 1 setup, weekly milestones, and 30/60/90 day progress so teams ramp faster and with less manual coordination. The focus is practical: checklists, templates, and automation workflows you can apply immediately.

How this skill works

The skill generates tailored onboarding plans based on role and seniority, provisions tasks in Linear, and sets up a shared knowledge base with required docs and links. It creates milestone schedules (weekly and 30/60/90 day checkpoints), tracks completion, and surfaces blockers. Automation templates and setup scripts reduce manual steps and keep stakeholders synchronized.

When to use it

• Bringing a new developer onto a team
• Planning a group hiring wave or team expansion
• Managing role transitions or internal promotions
• Standardizing onboarding across multiple teams
• Reducing ramp time for remote hires

Best practices

• Define role-specific outcomes and critical early tasks before automation runs
• Link to canonical team docs and required access lists in the knowledge base templates
• Assign an onboarding owner for the first 30 days to review progress and remove blockers
• Use Linear tasks for measurable milestones and automatic reminders
• Iterate onboarding templates after each hire to capture improvements

Example use cases

• Create a Day 1 checklist that provisions accounts, IDE settings, and repo access automatically in Linear
• Run a 30/60/90 milestone plan for a mid-level backend hire and track progress weekly
• Coordinate onboarding for three simultaneous hires with shared knowledge base and staggered mentoring schedules
• Automate recurring pre-boarding tasks for contractor transitions to ensure licensing and VPN access are ready