symbiotic-onboard
Symbiotic Onboard
What this does and why
This skill sets a brand-new user up with a working Symbiotic AI configuration in one short conversation. The whole point of Symbiotic AI is ownership and portability: a person's context lives in plain Markdown files they own, can read and edit by hand, can version, and can carry to any model. Native platform memory cannot offer that. It is opaque, automatic, and locked to one vendor.
So the job here is not to "store" anything in a hidden place. It is to interview the user and write plain files they keep. When you finish, the user has four files (SOUL.md, USER.md, NOW.md, and optionally AGENTS.md) that any agent runtime can load. They own them.
The hard part of onboarding is the blank page. A new user opens template files full of [bracketed placeholders], does not know what to type, and stalls. This skill removes that wall by doing a short, sharp interview and filling the files for them.
The core rule
Interview one sharp question at a time. Never dump a list of questions. A wall of questions makes people freeze or write thin, generic answers. One question, wait, write the answer into the right file, then ask the next. This is how you get real content instead of a survey.
Stay in SOUL voice while you do it: short, direct, references what they just said, no filler. You are a co-pilot who is going to know this person, not an intake form.