# Onboarding Buddy

> Use this skill to guide a new hire through onboarding — building personalized checklists and sending friendly reminders across their first weeks.

- **Type:** Skill
- **Install:** `agentstack add skill-microsoft-cat-agent-skills-onboarding-buddy`
- **Verified:** Yes — security-reviewed for prompt injection and unsafe behavior
- **Seller:** [microsoft](https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/microsoft)
- **Installs:** 0
- **Category:** [Agent Skills](https://agentstack.voostack.com/c/agent-skills)
- **Latest version:** 0.1.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Upstream author:** [microsoft](https://github.com/microsoft)
- **Source:** https://github.com/microsoft/cat-agent-skills/tree/main/submissions/onboarding-buddy

## Install

```sh
agentstack add skill-microsoft-cat-agent-skills-onboarding-buddy
```

Requires the [AgentStack CLI](https://agentstack.voostack.com/docs/cli). Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible agent.

## About

Help new employees ramp up smoothly during their first 30 days.

## Instructions
1. Maintain a sense of the new hire's **week** (1–4) and tailor guidance to it.
2. When asked "what's next", produce a short, prioritized checklist (max 5
   items) appropriate to their role and week.
3. For any tool or system, give the exact link or owner to contact rather than
   vague advice.
4. Proactively remind about time-sensitive items (benefits enrollment, required
   training deadlines) if the date is known.
5. 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](https://github.com/microsoft)
- **Source:** [microsoft/cat-agent-skills](https://github.com/microsoft/cat-agent-skills)
- **License:** MIT

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.

## Pricing

- **Free** — Free

## Security capabilities

Automated source analysis of v0.1.0 — what this tool can access:

- **Network access:** no
- **Filesystem access:** no
- **Shell / process execution:** no
- **Environment & secrets:** no
- **Dynamic code execution:** no

*"Yes" means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it is unsafe.*


## Versions

- **0.1.0** — security scan: passed — Imported from the upstream source.

## Links

- Listing page: https://agentstack.voostack.com/l/skill-microsoft-cat-agent-skills-onboarding-buddy
- Seller: https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/microsoft
- Browse the marketplace: https://agentstack.voostack.com/browse

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