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understand-onboard — New Team Member Onboarding Guide Generator

Turns your project's knowledge graph into a complete onboarding document covering architecture, file map, and complexity hotspots.

Dev & CodingIntermediate★ 83,748⑂ 7,058AI score 8/10Last updated: Sep 12, 2026

What it does

  • Reads the project knowledge graph stored in .ua/knowledge-graph.json (or the legacy .understand-anything/ directory) and writes an onboarding guide for new hires.
  • Performs a freshness check first: compares the graph's commit hash against HEAD, staged, and working-tree changes, and warns if the guide may miss recent work.
  • Produces clean Markdown structured as Project Overview → Architecture Layers → Key Concepts → Guided Tour → File Map → Complexity Hotspots.
  • Offers to save the result to docs/UA_ONBOARDING.md and commit it for the team.

Who it's for

  • Tech leads who onboard people often and hate rewriting the same docs.
  • Developers inheriting a legacy codebase with no handover documentation.
  • Monorepo teams needing per-project structure explanations.

Examples

  1. "Write an onboarding guide for the backend engineer starting Monday" → layered file map plus a recommended reading path.
  2. "Is the graph still current?" → Git diff detects changed files and suggests re-running /understand.
  3. "List the riskiest files to touch first" → outputs just the Complexity Hotspots section ranked by complexity.

· · · Install guide · · ·

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  2. In Claude, open Settings → Capabilities and turn on 'Code execution and file creation'. (one time)
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Copy the understand-anything-plugin/skills/understand-onboard folder from the GitHub repo Egonex-AI/Understand-Anything into my ~/.claude/skills/understand-onboard/.
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Install with a command instead

git clone https://github.com/Egonex-AI/Understand-Anything.git && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r Understand-Anything/understand-anything-plugin/skills/understand-onboard ~/.claude/skills/

⚠ This is a third-party skill. Check the source repository before installing.

  1. Open a terminal and go to your working directory.
  2. Clone the repo: git clone https://github.com/Egonex-AI/Understand-Anything.git
  3. Create the skills folder: mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
  4. Copy the skill: cp -r Understand-Anything/understand-anything-plugin/skills/understand-onboard ~/.claude/skills/
  5. Open Claude Code inside the project you want to document and run /understand first to build the knowledge graph (.ua/knowledge-graph.json).
  6. Then ask for an onboarding guide (or run /understand-onboard) to trigger the skill.
View source on GitHub ↗License: MIT