Developer Onboarding Document Skill

Produce a complete developer onboarding document for a service or team — covering everything a new engineer needs to be productive within their first week.

A good onboarding doc is not a wiki dump. It answers the questions a new engineer actually has on day one, in the order they'll have them.

Required Inputs

Ask for these if not already provided:

• Service name and what it does
• Team responsible for it
• Tech stack — language(s), framework(s), database(s), message queues, etc.
• Key external dependencies — upstream services, third-party APIs
• Deployment target — Kubernetes, ECS, Lambda, bare metal, etc.
• Local dev setup — how to run locally (Docker Compose, local DB, etc.)
• Testing approach — unit, integration, E2E; test commands
• Deployment process — summary of how code gets to production
• On-call setup — who's on-call, how alerts work
• Contacts — tech lead, platform team, related service owners