onboarding

# Developer Onboarding

Complete developer environment setup guides across all major platforms.

## Overview

This skill provides step-by-step onboarding documentation for setting up:

- **Package managers** (winget, Homebrew, apt, pacman)
- **Runtime environments** (NVM for Node.js)
- **Shell & terminal** (PowerShell, Zsh, Bash customization)
- **Code editors** (VS Code, JetBrains, Neovim)
- **AI tooling** (Claude Code, Cursor, LM Studio, Gemini CLI)
- **Containerization** (Docker setup)
- **Cloud platforms** (Azure CLI)
- **Database tools** (DBeaver, Azure Data Studio)
- **Security tools** (GPG, SSH, Windows Sandbox)
- **Productivity tools** (Figma, various utilities)

## When to Use This Skill

Use this skill when:

- Setting up a new development machine
- Onboarding new developers to a team
- Finding platform-specific installation instructions
- Configuring developer tools across Windows, macOS, Linux, or WSL
- Looking for best practices in environment setup
- Troubleshooting developer tool installations

## Quick Start by Platform

### Windows

Main Guide: [references/windows-onboarding.md](references/windows-onboarding.md)

Follow the ordered steps covering WSL, package management, Git (via git skills), runtime environments, shell configuration, and development tools.

### macOS

Main Guide: [references/macos-onboarding.md](references/macos-onboarding.md)

Follow the ordered steps covering Homebrew, Git (via git skills), runtime environments, shell configuration, and development tools.

### Linux

Main Guide: [references/linux-onboarding.md](references/linux-onboarding.md)

Follow the ordered steps covering package management, Git (via git skills), runtime environments, shell configuration, and development tools.

## Topics Index

| Topic | Windows | macOS | Linux | WSL |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Package Management | [Windows](references/package-management/package-managers-windows.md) | [macOS](references/package-management/package-managers-macos.md)