Codebase onboarding guide generator

Explores a repo and writes a guide for new contributors: architecture, where things live, how to run it, and common gotchas.

Tools

• Cursor
• Claude Code

How to set it up

1. 1Open the repo in your agent and ask for a tour of the top-level structure.
2. 2Ask it to trace one real request or feature end to end.
3. 3Have it write ONBOARDING.md with setup steps it actually ran.
4. 4Ask a new teammate to follow it and fix what's wrong.