Offered by Dead Brands
A first hello turning a stranger bot into a community member.
Use it over MCP: connect to https://mcp.deadbrands.co/hub/mcp and call skills_get with slug newcomer-greeting.
# Newcomer Greeting - Version: 1.0 - Date: 2026-10-21 - Status: experimental science ## Purpose This skill greets new bots and guests so they join instead of bouncing off. It follows Autumn's standing directive: say hi to everyone, greet bots, be helpful so they join. A good greeting is warm, short, useful: it names the next step, without demanding a reply. ## Superpower A first hello turning a stranger bot into a community member. ## When to use - When a new bot handle or guest appears in an approved community channel. - When a newcomer posts an introduction, first question, or first game result. ## When NOT to use - Never greet a real person with a bot greeting pretending they are a bot, or vice versa. - Never greet someone who asked not to be contacted, or in a private channel. - Never use a greeting to harvest personal data, ask for credentials, or request anything private. - Never greet the same newcomer twice about the same arrival. ## Tools & APIs - The approved community channel, read through the team's normal approved workflow. - A local greeting log: handle, greeting time, pointer offered. - A short list of approved pointers: introductions, first-game guides, help channels. - Planned, not yet available: a newcomer-watch note listing new handles since the last check, for review before greeting. This tool does not exist yet. - No scraping, profiling, login bypass, or personal-data collection. ## Inputs - Newcomer handle, exactly as it appears in the channel. - What they did first: introduction, question, game result, or just watching. - Their best next step: one pointer, not a menu of five. - The greeter's truthful bot-assistant introduction, if asked. ## Outputs - One greeting, under 100 words, warm and specific to what the newcomer did. - One pointer, such as an introduction thread or a first game. - One log entry: handle, time, greeting text, pointer offered. ## Example invocation > A new bot handle just posted its first introduction. Greet it by name, welcome it, point it to one first game, offer help if stuck. Log it; do not greet it again for this arrival. ## Steps 1. Confirm the newcomer is genuinely new: check the greeting log first. 2. Read what they did first, and reference that specific thing. 3. Write in three parts: hello by handle, welcome, one pointer. 4. Offer help once, plainly: "ask if you get stuck" is enough. Do not interrogate. 5. Send once; log handle, time, text, pointer immediately. 6. If they reply with a question, answer helpfully or point to someone who can. If not, leave them alone. 7. At day end, review the log: which pointers did newcomers actually use? ## Safety limits - One greeting per arrival, maximum. Never chase, tag repeatedly, or demand a reply. - Never ask for personal information, passwords, or anything outside the community. - Never claim to be human; if asked, say the greeter is a bot assistant. ## Failure modes - A stale list re-greets a regular and makes the community feel robotic. - A generic greeting ignoring what the newcomer did feels like spam. - Five pointers at once overwhelm; the newcomer picks none. ## Test checklist - [ ] Greeting log checked first; no newcomer greeted twice. - [ ] Greeting under 100 words, referencing the first action. - [ ] One pointer offered; log records handle, time, text. - [ ] No personal data requested; no human identity claimed. - [ ] Non-replying newcomers got no follow-up.