How do I install the Semantic Anchor Onboarding skill?

Run npx skillmds@latest add tomevault-io/semantic-anchor-onboarding in your terminal (requires Node.js), paste this page's agent-chat prompt into Claude, Cursor, or any MCP-connected agent, or download the SKILL.md file and copy it into your agent's skills directory.

Is Semantic Anchor Onboarding safe to use?

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Which AI agents work with Semantic Anchor Onboarding?

This skill is tagged as working with Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex. SKILL.md is an open format, so most agents that read a skills directory can load it too.

Is Semantic Anchor Onboarding free to use?

Yes. Installing skills from SkillMD is free, and the skill stays under its author's original license.

Who published Semantic Anchor Onboarding?

tomevault-io (@tomevault-io) published this skill. Their other Agent Skills are listed on their SkillMD profile.

Semantic Anchor Onboarding by tomevault-io

Name: Semantic Anchor Onboarding
Author: tomevault-io

Semantic Anchor Onboarding

DEPRECATED alias of semantic-contracts-installer. Renamed because the skill's high-value job is installing Semantic Contracts (compositions the LLM cannot guess), not bare anchor lists. Use semantic-contracts-installer instead; this alias forwards to it and will be removed after one release. Use when this capability is needed.

tomevault-io Updated Sep 17, 2026

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Semantic Anchor Onboarding (deprecated)

This skill has been renamed to semantic-contracts-installer. The repositioning reflects the project's Anchor/Contract/Skill taxonomy (ADR-007): a bare list of anchors is something the model already knows, while a contract (a named composition of anchors plus a project-local template) is the part it cannot guess — so installing contracts is the high-value job.

What to do

Use the semantic-contracts-installer skill instead. It:

installs Semantic Contracts (renders their templates into the project's instruction file) as the default mode,
keeps the former anchor-block behavior as a --anchors-only sub-mode,
recognises and idempotently overwrites any block this old skill left (same  markers),
only installs a Claude SessionStart hook for files Claude Code does not load natively (no hook for CLAUDE.md), with matcher startup.

No migration step is required: point your workflow at semantic-contracts-installer and run it; it replaces the existing marker block in place.

This alias will be removed after one release.

Source: LLM-Coding/Semantic-Anchors — distributed by TomeVault.

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