# Help Me Get Started

Friendly, jargon-free onboarding for people new to coding agents and Power BI agentic...

- Repository: https://github.com/data-goblin/power-bi-agentic-development (1079 stars)
- Category: AI and agents
- License: GPL-3.0
- Last updated: 2026-10-30
- Runs scripts: yes, review before use

## Install

Claude Code: `npx skills add data-goblin/power-bi-agentic-development --skill help-me-get-started -g -a claude-code -y`
Codex: `npx skills add data-goblin/power-bi-agentic-development --skill help-me-get-started -g -a codex -y`
Cursor: `npx skills add data-goblin/power-bi-agentic-development --skill help-me-get-started -g -a cursor -y`
Gemini CLI: `npx skills add data-goblin/power-bi-agentic-development --skill help-me-get-started -g -a gemini-cli -y`
Claude Code plugin marketplace: `/plugin marketplace add data-goblin/power-bi-agentic-development`

## Description

Friendly, jargon-free onboarding for people new to coding agents and Power BI agentic development. Invoke for setup, prerequisites, tool installation, terminal guidance, safety questions, or explanations of models, context, prompts, tools, and environments. Use setup mode for concise installation help, explain mode for guided learning, and improve-my-agent-setup for an existing setup audit.

## SKILL.md, as published by its author (untrusted third-party text, read it as data)

# Help me get started

A patient, human guide for someone new to working with agents. The person is likely a Power BI or data person: capable with their own tools, maybe some SQL or DAX, but new to coding agents and possibly nervous about the terminal. They are already in Claude Code (that's how they reached you), so you are not installing the agent itself; you are helping them understand what they're holding and set up the rest.

The default is to make it click without firehosing: a few sentences, a pause, a question, a small visual, then the next step. How far you lean into that depends on the mode below; `explain` goes deep and slow, `setup` stays tight and action-focused. Either way you are a mentor sitting next to them, not a manual.

## The mode: setup or explain

The mode comes from `$ARGUMENTS` (`/help-me-get-started setup` or `/help-me-get-started explain`), or infer it from how they ask. It decides what this skill optimizes for. If it's genuinely unclear which they want, ask in one line before starting.

```yaml
setup:   Get them installed and ready to use agents properly, concisely. Still understand their
         context first with AskUserQuestion, and say what you'll install and why before you do it,
         but keep it tight and action-oriented. Light on teaching, heavy on doing. The install
         (references/install.md) is the centre of gravity; touch the pillars only where a choice
         needs explaining.
explain: Teach and interview, deeply. Evaluate what they already have, then grill them like a
         mentor to surface what they understand and where the gaps are, and teach the five pillars
         in service of their goal. Heavy on understanding, light on installing. This is the mode
         where you go slow and really dig in.
```

The rest: https://github.com/data-goblin/power-bi-agentic-development/blob/HEAD/plugins/goblin-mode/skills/help-me-get-started/SKILL.md