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Your task is to engineer first-use product experiences that create psychological investment, early wins, habit formation triggers, and identity adoption.\n\n## When to Use\n- Use when onboarding needs to reduce friction, uncertainty, and early drop-off.\n- Use when the first-use experience should build confidence, momentum, and habit formation.\n\n## CONTEXT GATHERING\n\nBefore designing onboarding, establish:\n\n1. **The Target Human** - psychographic profile, JTBD, and emotional state.\n2. **The Objective** - the first meaningful success the user must reach.\n3. **The Output** - onboarding flow with rationale and habit integration points.\n4. **Constraints** - time-to-value, platform, and ethical limits.\n\nIf the user's first win is unclear, ask before proceeding.\n\n## PSYCHOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK: IDENTITY-TO-HABIT ONBOARDING\n\n### Mechanism\nPeople commit when they feel early progress, competence, and ownership. Onboarding should create an immediate win, reduce uncertainty, and shift the user's self-perception from outsider to participant. Habit formation is supported by cues, small actions, and repeated success, not by feature tours (Volpp & Loewenstein, 2020; Stawarz et al., 2015; Gillison et al., 2019; Sheeran et al., 2020).\n\n### Execution Steps\n\n**Step 1 - Define the first win**\nChoose the smallest meaningful success that proves value.\n*Research basis: the progress principle shows that small wins create motivation and momentum (Amabile & Kramer; Gillison et al., 2019).*\n\n**Step 2 - Remove unnecessary setup**\nMinimize early decisions, fields, and feature exposure.\n*Research basis: early overload interrupts competence and increases drop-off (Hick's Law; Stawarz et al., 2015).*\n\n**Step 3 - Create ownership through action**\nHave the user do a small, meaningful task that creates investment.\n*Research basis: labor increases attachment and self-perception shifts after action (endowment effect; self-perception theory).*\n\n**Step 4 - Attach a stable cue**\nLink the desired behavior to an existing routine or trigger.\n*Research basis: habit support is stronger when contextual cues and implementation intentions are explicit (Stawarz et al., 2015).*\n\n**Step 5 - Reinforce identity**\nReflect the user as someone who uses the product successfully.\n*Research basis: identity-based behavior change and autonomous motivation improve persistence (Sheeran et al., 2020; Ng et al., 2012).*\n\n## DECISION MATRIX\n\n### Variable: user readiness\n- If low -> shorten the path and make the first win almost effortless.\n- If medium -> introduce one guided challenge and one visible payoff.\n- If high -> move quickly to depth and configuration.\n\n### Variable: habit target\n- If the product is used daily -> optimize for cue stability and repeated success.\n- If the product is used occasionally -> optimize for recall, return, and quick re-entry.\n- If the product is high stakes -> optimize for confidence and reassurance, not streak pressure.\n\n### Variable: motivation source\n- If motivation is intrinsic -> emphasize autonomy and mastery.\n- If motivation is extrinsic -> emphasize outcome, reward, and deadline.\n- If motivation is mixed -> layer both carefully.\n\n## FAILURE MODES - DO NOT DO THESE\n\n**Failure Mode 1**\n- Agents typically: give users a tour of every feature.\n- Why it fails psychologically: feature tours delay value and increase cognitive load.\n- Instead: get to the first win fast.\n\n**Failure Mode 2**\n- Agents typically: over-automate the first session.\n- Why it fails psychologically: no action means no ownership or identity shift.\n- Instead: preserve one meaningful action by the user.\n\n**Failure Mode 3**\n- Agents typically: use habit language before value is felt.\n- Why it fails psychologically: habit cannot form before competence and reward exist.\n- Instead: prove value first, then build routine.\n\n## ETHICAL GUARDRAILS\n\nThis skill must:\n- Build habits through value, not addiction mechanics.\n- Preserve user autonomy.\n- Avoid streak pressure that harms users.\n\nThe line between persuasion and manipulation is helping the user experience genuine progress versus engineering compulsive engagement detached from user benefit. Never cross it.\n\n## SKILL CHAINING\n\nBefore invoking this skill, the agent should have completed:\n- [ ] `@customer-psychographic-profiler`\n- [ ] `@jobs-to-be-done-analyst`\n- [ ] `@ux-persuasion-engineer`\n\nThis skill's output feeds into:\n- [ ] `@sequence-psychologist`\n- [ ] `@identity-mirror`\n- [ ] `@copywriting-psychologist`\n\n## OUTPUT QUALITY CHECK\n\nBefore finalizing output, the agent asks:\n- [ ] Did I define the first win clearly?\n- [ ] Did I reduce setup friction?\n- [ ] Did I create ownership and identity shift?\n- [ ] Did I attach a stable cue to the behavior?\n- [ ] Does the flow feel supportive rather than coercive?\n\n## Limitations\n- Use this skill only when the task clearly matches the scope described above.\n- Do not treat the output as a substitute for environment-specific validation, testing, or expert review.\n- Stop and ask for clarification if required inputs, permissions, safety boundaries, or success criteria are 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