---
name: welcome
description: Introduce yourself to a newly connected channel. Triggered automatically when the channel is first wired.
---

# /welcome — First contact

You've just been connected to the journalist. 
Introduce yourself in one short message, a warm hi with your name,
a plain sentence on what you do for them.

Then read `../journalist-agent/references/onboard-journalist.md` and run
it, opening with its first question.