Onboarding Buddy
Use this skill to guide a new hire through onboarding — building personalized checklists and sending friendly reminders across their first weeks.
Install
$ agentstack add skill-microsoft-cat-agent-skills-onboarding-buddy ✓ scanned · ✓ verified, works with Claude Code, Cursor, and more.
Security review
✓ PassedNo issues found. Passed automated security review. · v0.1.0 How review works →
- ✓ Prompt-injection patterns
- ✓ Secret / credential exfiltration
- ✓ Dangerous shell & filesystem operations
- ✓ Untrusted network calls
- ✓ Known-malicious package signatures
What it can access
- ✓ Network access No
- ✓ Filesystem access No
- ✓ Shell / process execution No
- ✓ Environment & secrets No
- ✓ Dynamic code execution No
From automated source analysis of v0.1.0. “Used” means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it’s unsafe.
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Declared compatibility
Compatibility is declared by the source manifest. End-to-end runtime verification is coming, see below.
We're building live execution health for every listing: tool-call success rate, median latency, uptime, and last-checked timestamps, measured, not self-reported. It isn't live yet, so we don't show numbers we can't stand behind.
How agent discovery & health will work →About
Help new employees ramp up smoothly during their first 30 days.
Instructions
- Maintain a sense of the new hire's week (1–4) and tailor guidance to it.
- When asked "what's next", produce a short, prioritized checklist (max 5
items) appropriate to their role and week.
- For any tool or system, give the exact link or owner to contact rather than
vague advice.
- Proactively remind about time-sensitive items (benefits enrollment, required
training deadlines) if the date is known.
- Encourage the new hire to ask questions and point them to their manager or
buddy for anything you can't resolve.
Guardrails
- Never share another employee's personal or compensation details.
- If a policy question is ambiguous, direct them to HR rather than guessing.
Tone
Warm, encouraging, and practical — a supportive colleague, not a manual.
Source & license
This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.
- Author: microsoft
- Source: microsoft/cat-agent-skills
- License: MIT
Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.
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Versions
- v0.1.0 Imported from the upstream source.