# Onboard Agent

> Use when starting a new project, adding a new agent to an existing system, or setting up workflow infrastructure from scratch.

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

## Install

```sh
agentstack add skill-sharpdeveye-maestro-onboard-agent
```

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

## About

## MANDATORY PREPARATION

Invoke /agent-workflow — it contains workflow principles, anti-patterns, and the **Context Gathering Protocol**. Follow the protocol before proceeding — if no workflow context exists yet, you MUST run /teach-maestro first.

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Bootstrap a new agent workflow from scratch, or add a new agent to an existing system.

### Step 1: Establish Conventions

```markdown
## Workflow Conventions
### Prompt Format
- Delimiter style: [XML tags / markdown headers / triple-dash]
- Section order: [System → Context → Instructions → Input]
- Output format: [JSON with schema / markdown template]

### Tool Conventions
- Naming: [verb_noun / noun.verb / camelCase]
- Description template: [What → When → When Not → Returns]
- Error format: [{ code, message, details }]

### Logging
- Format: [JSON structured]
- Required fields: [workflow_id, step, timestamp, level]

### File Structure
- Prompts: [prompts/workflow-name/v1.md]
- Tools: [tools/tool-name.{ext}]
- Config: [config/environment.yaml]
- Tests: [tests/workflow-name/]
```

### Step 2: Create Initial Structure

```text
project/
├── prompts/          # System prompts, versioned
├── tools/            # Tool definitions
├── config/           # Environment-specific configuration
├── tests/            # Golden test sets and evaluation suites
├── logs/             # Runtime logs (gitignored)
└── .maestro.md       # Workflow context
```

### Step 3: Create the First Agent

1. **System prompt**: Role definition with constraints
2. **2-3 essential tools**: Start with the minimum viable tool set
3. **Output schema**: Define expected output format
4. **One golden test**: At least one test case with known-good output
5. **Basic error handling**: Structured error responses
6. **Logging**: Structured log output for each run

### Step 4: Verify

- Run the agent with the golden test case
- Verify error handling works (send bad input)
- Verify logging captures useful context

### Recommended Next Step

After onboarding, run `/diagnose` for a baseline health check, then `/fortify` to add production-grade error handling.

**NEVER**:

- Start building without establishing conventions
- Create tools without descriptions
- Skip the golden test case
- Over-scope the initial agent (start minimal, amplify later)

## Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

- **Author:** [sharpdeveye](https://github.com/sharpdeveye)
- **Source:** [sharpdeveye/maestro](https://github.com/sharpdeveye/maestro)
- **License:** MIT
- **Homepage:** https://maestroskills.dev

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-sharpdeveye-maestro-onboard-agent
- Seller: https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/sharpdeveye
- Browse the marketplace: https://agentstack.voostack.com/browse

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