# Optimize User Onboarding and Activation

Many products lose new users before they reach first value. This skill helps analyze onboarding flows, improve activation, and plan measurable experiments.

## Install

```bash
npx skillstore add coreyhaines31/onboarding-cro
```

## Metadata

- Status: approved
- Slug: coreyhaines31-onboarding-cro
- Skillstore revision: r1
- Version status: missing
- Tree hash: bb82ac6340d598b73a4cccf7ce59701dc9ec8087d5188c87873f2aab8035f6a0
- Author: coreyhaines31
- GitHub username: coreyhaines31
- License: MIT
- Repository: https://github.com/coreyhaines31/marketingskills/tree/main/skills/onboarding-cro
- Ref: d11af420e07cd866fe39cfa937efef3223896c06
- Supported tools: Claude, Codex, Claude Code
- Audit status: complete
- Agent install advisory: allowed
- Manual install advisory: allowed
- Artifact signature: available
- Audit attestation: unavailable
- Human verification: not\_verified
- Risk factors: external\_commands
- Quality score: 79
- Quality tier: bronze
- Public page: https://skillstore.pages.dev/skills/coreyhaines31-onboarding-cro
- Manifest: https://skillstore.pages.dev/api/skills/coreyhaines31-onboarding-cro/manifest

## Capabilities

- Audits post-signup flows for activation barriers, drop-off points, and first-value delays.
- Defines activation events, aha moments, and metrics for onboarding success.
- Designs guided setup flows, checklists, empty states, tooltips, and progress indicators.
- Suggests onboarding experiments for flow simplification, personalization, CTAs, and support.
- Drafts onboarding copy for welcome screens, empty states, tooltips, emails, and milestones.
- Maps multi-channel onboarding with behavior-triggered email and in-app recovery tactics.

## Use Cases

- Improve Activation After Signup: Identify where new users stall and prioritize onboarding changes that shorten time to value.
- Plan Onboarding Experiments: Create test ideas for checklists, empty states, personalization, and behavior-triggered recovery.
- Write First-Run Copy: Draft welcome screens, tooltip text, checklist microcopy, and milestone messages for new users.

## Prompt Templates

### Audit My Onboarding Flow

```
Use onboarding-cro to review my current post-signup flow. My product is [product], activation means [event], and users drop off at [step].
```

### Design a First-Value Flow

```
Use onboarding-cro to design a first-run experience that gets [user segment] to [activation event] in the first session.
```

### Create an Experiment Roadmap

```
Use onboarding-cro to propose onboarding experiments for [product]. Include hypotheses, target metrics, priority, and expected activation impact.
```

### Build a Segmented Activation Strategy

```
Use onboarding-cro to create onboarding paths for [segments]. Include in-app guidance, email triggers, stalled-user recovery, and measurement.
```

## Limitations

- Does not replace product analytics, cohort analysis, or experiment measurement.
- Needs product context, activation data, and current flow details for precise recommendations.
- Focuses on post-signup onboarding, not signup form conversion or long-term email programs.
- Provides strategy and copy guidance, not implementation code or design files.

## Best Practices

- Define activation as a measurable action that strongly predicts retention.
- Focus the first session on one valuable outcome before teaching advanced features.
- Measure onboarding changes with cohort data, time to activation, and retention impact.

## Anti Patterns

- Teaching every feature during the first session.
- Blocking product access behind long setup steps or forced tours.
- Sending generic onboarding emails that ignore in-app behavior.

## Security Audit

- Audited at: 2026-07-06T07:56:40.962\+00:00
- Summary: All four static findings are false positives from Markdown formatting or a related-skill name. The skill is a prose guide for onboarding CRO, and I found no prompt injection, data exfiltration intent, or executable command instructions in SKILL.md.

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