# Using Claude to power up your onboarding 🚀

DevFeed: [Using Claude to power up your onboarding 🚀](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/using-claude-to-power-up-your-onboarding-12055.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://incident.io/blog/using-claude-to-power-up-your-onboarding>)

Author: Oli Monaghan-Coombs

Published: 2025-08-14T16:23:35Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [The incident.io Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/the-incident-io-blog.md>)

Topics: [Claude Code](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/claude-code.md>), [MCP](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/mcp.md>), [debugging](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/debugging.md>), [Grafana](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/grafana.md>), [observability](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/observability.md>), [incident](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/incident.md>)

Tags: [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [architecture](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/architecture.md>), [bugs](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/bugs.md>), [claude](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/claude.md>), [claude-code](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/claude-code.md>), [debug](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/debug.md>), [grafana](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/grafana.md>), [incident](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/incident.md>), [incident-channel](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/incident-channel.md>), [incident-management](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/incident-management.md>), [incident-response](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/incident-response.md>), [mcp](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mcp.md>), [observability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/observability.md>), [outage](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/outage.md>), [post-mortem](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/post-mortem.md>), [slack-incident](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/slack-incident.md>), [workflows](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/workflows.md>)

## AI overview

A recent incident.io joiner describes using Claude Code to accelerate onboarding and become productive quickly. The article presents practical techniques including reading codebase files for orientation, tracing consistent architectures, diagramming event flows, searching prior issues through Linear's MCP, and investigating Grafana observability data during debugging.

## Source excerpt

This post talks through the experiences of a recent new joiner to incident.io using Claude code to turbocharge their onboarding, and be productive sooner. It offers practical tips for other engineers looking to use Claude more in their workflows.