User Onboarding Optimizer
Guides an AI agent to shorten signup-to-value time and improve user activation and retention
- Repository
- coreyhaines31/marketingskills
- Stars
- 57,951
- Licence
- MIT
- Files
- 5 files
What it does
Once installed, the agent approaches user onboarding as a conversion and retention problem. It asks about your product and what counts as a user's 'aha moment', then recommends the shortest path from signup to first real value, suggests checklists, empty states and first-run screens, and helps you pick an activation model such as freemium or free trial. It also explains how to find which early actions predict long-term retention, using cohort logic that avoids common analytics mistakes.
Great for
- Product or growth teams whose users sign up but don't stick around
- Founders designing a first-run experience for a new SaaS or app
- Anyone diagnosing a low activation rate or long time-to-value
Skip it if
- Signup or registration form optimization, which the skill itself redirects to a separate 'signup' skill, so it is outside this skill's scope
- Ongoing email sequence strategy, which belongs to a separate 'emails' skill
- Teams without any usage data who want statistically proven retention conclusions, since the skill warns that correlation alone does not prove causation
Try asking
- “Our users sign up but never create a project. How should we redesign the first session?”
- “Help me define the aha moment for our analytics product and the early actions that predict 90-day retention.”
- “Suggest an onboarding checklist and empty states for a new design tool to speed up time-to-value.”
- “Which activation model fits a B2B project management app: freemium, free trial, or consultation?”
Install in 3 steps
- 1
Download the skill
The ZIP contains the 5 original files, the MIT licence and an attribution note.
onboarding.zip - 2
Add it to your agent
Claude Code (all projects)
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && unzip onboarding.zip -d ~/.claude/skills/Claude Code / Agent SDK (this project only)
mkdir -p .claude/skills && unzip onboarding.zip -d .claude/skills/Claude apps (web/desktop): Settings → Capabilities → Skills → Upload skill, and choose the ZIP.
- 3
Ask for the task
No special command needed — the agent reads the skill's description and loads it when your request matches. Try one of the prompts above.
Get better results
- Give the agent your activation definition and any funnel or retention data up front, so recommendations are grounded in your numbers rather than generic advice.
- Ask for hypotheses to test rather than final rules; the skill recommends confirming any aha-moment definition on a later, mature cohort.
- Mention your product type and whether you are B2B or B2C, since the skill tailors examples and activation models to that context.
What's inside
- evals/evals.json
- references/activation-models.md
- references/experiments.md
- references/minimum-path-to-value.md
- SKILL.md
Redistributed unmodified from coreyhaines31/marketingskills under the MIT licence. The assessment was drafted with AI from the skill's files on 2026-10-29. Skills can instruct your agent to run code — read SKILL.md and any scripts before installing.