Pick the one milestone worth measuring. Delete the steps in its way.
It picks the single activation milestone that predicts retention and instruments it, then goes through the first run step by step and names the setup steps to delete, because most onboarding failures are steps nobody needed. Empty states, checklists, and first-session sequencing get rebuilt around that milestone. Registration itself is suede-signup; the emails are suede-emails.
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When to reach for it
The user has people signing up but not activating, or wants to design the first session in a product.
What's inside
- Initial Assessment
- Core Principles
- Defining Activation
- Onboarding Flow Design
- Multi-Channel Onboarding
- Handling Stalled Users
- Measurement
- Output Format
- Common Patterns by Product Type
- Experiment Ideas
- Task-Specific Questions
- Related Skills
Example prompt
Use $suede-onboarding on [target]. The user has people signing up but not activating, or wants to design the first session in a product. Work through activation milestones, first-run sequencing, empty states, setup checklists, and the aha moment worth instrumenting, ground every recommendation in evidence the user can check, and return the decisions, the reasoning, and what to measure next.Reference material
Loaded on demand, not up front:
Credit
This Suede skill includes licensed source material. Attribution and licence terms remain in NOTICE.md.
Install this skill
It ships inside the Suede Creator Skills pack, so one install brings the whole pack and this skill with it. Claude Code takes two commands the first time and one after that; Codex installs the same pack natively.
$ /plugin marketplace add JasonColapietro/suede-creator-skills $ /plugin install suede-skills@suede
$ codex plugin add suede-skills@suede-codex
Cursor, Copilot, and Windsurf install through the skills CLI. Every path is on the install page, and every folder is readable first on GitHub.