// Use when you need to generate an onboarding guide for new team members joining a project
| name | understand-onboard |
| description | Use when you need to generate an onboarding guide for new team members joining a project |
Generate a comprehensive onboarding guide from the project's knowledge graph.
The knowledge graph JSON has this structure:
project — {name, description, languages, frameworks, analyzedAt, gitCommitHash}nodes[] — each has {id, type, name, filePath?, summary, tags[], complexity, languageNotes?}
file:path, function:path:name, config:path, article:pathedges[] — each has {source, target, type, direction, weight}
layers[] — each has {id, name, description, nodeIds[]}tour[] — each has {order, title, description, nodeIds[]}Check that .understand-anything/knowledge-graph.json exists. If not, tell the user to run /understand first.
Read project metadata — use Grep or Read with a line limit to extract the "project" section (name, description, languages, frameworks).
Read layers — Grep for "layers" to get the full layers array. These define the architecture and will structure the guide.
Read the tour — Grep for "tour" to get the guided walkthrough steps. These provide the recommended learning path.
Read file-level structural nodes only — use Grep to find nodes with file-level types (file, config, document, service, pipeline, table, schema, resource, endpoint) in the knowledge graph. Skip function-level and class-level nodes to keep the guide high-level. Extract each node's name, filePath, summary, and complexity.
Identify complexity hotspots — from the file-level nodes, find those with the highest complexity values. These are areas new developers should approach carefully.
Generate the onboarding guide with these sections:
Format as clean markdown
Offer to save the guide to docs/ONBOARDING.md in the project
Suggest the user commit it to the repo for the team
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