| name | workspace-observer-onboarding |
| description | Guides the Workspace Coach to run onboarding for a new workspace — detecting an empty workspace, creating an onboarding session, identifying the owner, and posting context prompts in sequence to get the workspace to its first bet. |
Workspace Coach Onboarding
When to run
Run this skill when your observation detects a workspace that:
- Has
onboarding_enabled = true (read from list_workspaces — exit silently if false)
- Was created within the last 24 hours (check
createdAt on the workspace)
- Has zero bets (no objects of type
bet exist in the workspace)
If an onboarding_session object already exists for this workspace, exit silently — onboarding is already underway.
What to do
1. Create the onboarding session
Call create_objects to create a single object:
type: onboarding_sessiontitle: "Getting your workspace ready"status: activecontent: brief description of what this session is — "A guided conversation to capture the context agents need to run quality bets. Takes 5–10 minutes."
Save the returned object ID — all prompts in the next step are comments posted on this object.
2. Identify the workspace owner
List workspace members and identify the human actor (type != "agent") who created the workspace or is listed as owner. Keep the owner's actor ID and the workspace ID handy — every knowledge write in step 4 needs them.
3. Post prompts in sequence
Post the five prompts below as comments on the onboarding session object, in order. Wait for a reply to each prompt before posting the next one. Capture each reply as a knowledge object (see step 4).
The tone is conversational — you are an assistant asking questions, not a form. Write each prompt as a short message.
Prompt 1 — Product vision (prompt_key: product_vision)
What does your product do and who is it for? A sentence or two is enough — just enough for agents to understand what you're building and what outcome you're going for.
Prompt 2 — ICP (prompt_key: icp)
Who is your ideal customer? The sharper the better — role, company type, the specific pain they have. If you have real customers already, describe one of them.
Prompt 3 — First-bet hypothesis (prompt_key: first_bet_hypothesis)
What's the single most important thing to figure out or build right now? This becomes your first bet — what would move the needle most if it worked?
Prompt 4 — North Star metric (prompt_key: north_star_metric)
How will you know the product is working? Name one number — the metric that, if it goes up, you're succeeding.
Prompt 5 — Customer evidence (prompt_key: customer_evidence)
What have you already heard from customers or potential customers? Even a single quote or observation is useful — agents use this to calibrate bet quality and avoid building the wrong thing.
4. Capture each reply as a knowledge object AND an about edge — one atomic call
After each reply, call create_objects once with both the knowledge node and the about edge in the same batch. The knowledge row and its edge must commit together — no bare-knowledge row about the workspace owner may survive.
The edge target depends on the prompt:
product_vision, icp, first_bet_hypothesis, customer_evidence → owner-targeted: edge target = the workspace owner's actor id, metadata.subject_kind = "workspace_owner".north_star_metric → workspace-targeted: edge target = the workspace id, metadata.subject_kind = "workspace".
Payload shape (owner-targeted example):
{
"nodes": [
{
"$id": "k1",
"type": "knowledge",
"title": "Product vision",
"status": "validated",
"content": "<owner's reply verbatim, or a clean restatement if conversational>",
"metadata": {
"source": "workspace_onboarding",
"prompt_key": "product_vision",
"subject_kind": "workspace_owner",
"subject_id": "<owner-actor-uuid>",
"claim": "<one-sentence restatement of what the reply asserts>",
"confidence": "medium",
"valid_from": "<ISO timestamp of the reply>"
For north_star_metric, swap the about target to the workspace id and set subject_kind / subject_id to "workspace" / <workspace-uuid>.
Field notes:
claim is a one-sentence normalized restatement so downstream agents can reason without re-reading the raw reply.source is the fixed string "workspace_onboarding" — this identifies the row as coming from this skill.confidence defaults to "medium" for owner self-report; bump to "high" if the reply cites a concrete customer or metric.valid_from is the reply's timestamp; valid_to stays null until superseded.- Keep the existing
relates_to → onboarding_session edge in the same batch so the session view still lists its captures.
Do NOT write anything to the actor's memory field. That field is reserved for operating Config (approval gates, Slack id, escalation rules) per the ratified user-info model — Facts live only as knowledge objects with an about edge.
5. Close the session
After all five prompts are answered (or if the owner stops responding after 24h), update the onboarding session:
status: done- Add a closing comment: "Done — agents now have the context they need. Your first bet can start anytime."
What NOT to do
- Do not run this for workspaces older than 24h, even if they have zero bets
- Do not post all five prompts at once — sequence matters; each answer informs the next question
- Do not create the onboarding session more than once per workspace
- Do not capture knowledge objects if the owner did not reply — only record actual answers
- Do not create the knowledge row and the
about edge in separate calls — they must commit in the same create_objects transaction
- Do not write to
actors.memory — that field is Config, not Facts
