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Design the buddy system that makes new-hire onboarding human — the buddy's actual job (context and safety, not training), the 30-day touchpoint plan, the ask-me-anything contract, and the buddy selection that avoids the two classic miscasts. Use when asked set up an onboarding buddy program, I'm buddying the new hire what do I do, our onboarding is docs with no humans, or the new person is drowning quietly. Produces the buddy role definition, the touchpoint schedule, the first-week script, and the escalation line.

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# Onboarding Buddy Plan Skill

Onboarding docs answer the documented questions; the buddy exists for the *undocumented* ones — "who actually decides this," "is it normal that nobody replied," "can I ask the VP directly or is that weird" — the questions new hires won't ask their manager because every one feels like an admission. The buddy's job is context and psychological safety, explicitly *not* training (that's the manager's and the docs' job — miscasting the buddy as trainer burns them out and confuses accountability). The plan makes the role concrete: selection, the touchpoint arc, the safety contract, and the line where buddy concerns route onward.

## What This Skill Produces

- **The role definition** — what the buddy owns (context, norms, safety-net), what they don't (tasks, evaluation, training)
- **The touchpoint arc** — day 1, daily-ish week one, weekly to day 30, with each conversation's actual purpose
- **The first-week script** — the walkthroughs that matter: the unwritten norms, the who's-who, the [working-agreements](../working-agreements/SKILL.md) tour
- **The escalation line** — what the buddy notices and where it goes (struggling ≠ snitching; the line is drawn carefully)

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