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# /onboarding -- New-Hire Ramp-Up **Fast-path companion to Pillar 5 (Optimize the Team).** Builds a ramp-up plan for a specific new hire, without running a full `/team` health assessment. The book's guidance: a roster of A-players needs the direction, tools, and peer support to do their best work -- onboarding is where that support either starts or doesn't. ## When to invoke - A new hire joins, or is about to join, a team or project - A recent hire (first 90 days) is struggling and it's unclear whether it's a skill gap or a setup gap - Standing up a new team from scratch, where everyone is effectively "new hire day one" ## What it checks 1. **Direction** -- does the new hire have a written first-30/60/90-day plan, or are they expected to figure out priorities themselves? 2. **Buddy / mentor** -- is there a specific person (not the tech lead by default -- that overloads the one person everyone already depends on) responsible for day-to-day questions? 3. **Tooling & access** -- what blocks a first commit today: missing repo access, missing local-env docs, missing credentials? (A slow first-commit time is itself a Speed-adjacent signal worth naming.) 4. **Early signal** -- for a hire already a few weeks in, what does their question pattern show (routing everything through one person is a Storming-stage red flag per `/team`)? ## Inputs - **Role & context** -- what the new hire was hired to do, and their starting experience level with this stack - **Existing onboarding mate