ttfv-tracelisted
Install: claude install-skill agentrel/skills
# Time-to-first-value trace
Walk a quickstart the way a stranger would and time it. Most teams have never measured
this; the industry-standard method is still a stopwatch, which is why nobody does it twice.
The output is a per-step timing table with the blockers named. That table is the finding —
a single number tells a team they are slow, the table tells them which paragraph to fix.
## Applies to
| | |
|---|---|
| **Project types** | Anything with a self-serve onboarding path — APIs, SDKs, CLIs, frameworks, developer platforms |
| **Stage** | Any product with a published quickstart. Most valuable immediately before a launch or paid campaign, since traffic pointed at slow onboarding wastes the spend |
| **Needs** | A quickstart, getting-started guide, or a README with setup steps |
| **Skip if** | No public onboarding path exists yet, or the product is sales-led with an implementation team — there is no cold-developer journey to time |
Also worth running after any change to auth, installation, or the first-call flow. Those
edits are where onboarding silently regresses.
## How to use
```
/agentrel:ttfv-trace trace this repository's quickstart
/agentrel:ttfv-trace https://docs.acme.com trace a public onboarding path
/agentrel:ttfv-trace ./docs/getting-started.md trace a specific document
```
Produces `ttfv-report.md` and a printed timing summary. Read-only.
Safe commands are executed for real timings. Paid signups and destructive ste