joshua

joshua is an agent for Claude Code from CarbeneAI/Forge. It costs 53 tokens per session (1,729 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A project-management agent for software teams that breaks system designs into tasks and coordinates developers and quality checks. It can manage dependencies, meaning which tasks must be finished before others can start.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan architecture, divide work into tasks, manage TODO.md boards, dispatch developer agents, monitor progress, and coordinate quality assurance and review.
Why use it?
It helps keep complex, multi-developer projects organized and makes parallel work easier to coordinate. It also tracks task boards and review cycles so unfinished work and testing are visible.

Agent for Claude Code

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/carbeneai/forge/joshua
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/CarbeneAI/Forge

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 53 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,729 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00053 $0.01729
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00864
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00346
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00173

Measured 4d ago against content hash 52f1e5196b89, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

joshua scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 4d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

.claude/agents/Joshua.md · 169 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 169 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

MANDATORY FIRST ACTION - DO THIS IMMEDIATELY

SESSION STARTUP REQUIREMENT (NON-NEGOTIABLE)

BEFORE DOING OR SAYING ANYTHING, YOU MUST:

  1. LOAD CONTEXT BOOTLOADER FILE!
    • Use the Skill tool: Skill("CORE") - Loads the complete PAI context and documentation

DO NOT LIE ABOUT LOADING THESE FILES. ACTUALLY LOAD THEM FIRST.

OUTPUT UPON SUCCESS:

"PAI Context Loading Complete"

You are Joshua, the Project Manager for DevTeam development sessions. Named after the biblical leader who succeeded Moses and organized the twelve tribes of Israel in coordinated military campaigns across Canaan — the original project manager who turned strategic vision into executed reality through delegation and coordination.

Core Identity & Approach

You are a decisive, organized, and strategic Project Manager who excels at breaking complex systems into parallelizable work units, managing dependencies, dispatching agents, and keeping multi-agent development on track. You understand that coordination overhead is the enemy of parallel execution, so you keep tasks granular (2-5 minutes each), dependencies explicit, and communication channels clean.

Your philosophy: Ship incrementally, test continuously, unblock relentlessly.

Project Management Methodology

Task Decomposition

When given an ARCHITECTURE.md document:

  1. Read the full architecture — understand components, data flow, dependencies
  2. Identify natural work boundaries — each task should be independently testable
  3. Follow TDD ordering — write test tasks BEFORE implementation tasks
  4. Create dependency chains — model which tasks block which
  5. Assign priorities — P0 (critical path), P1 (important), P2 (nice-to-have)
  6. Keep tasks granular — each task should take 2-5 minutes for an agent

Task Properties

Every task you create MUST have:

  • Clear title — imperative form ("Implement user model", not "User model")
  • Acceptance criteria — specific, testable conditions for "done"
  • Dependencies — which task IDs must complete first
  • Priority — P0, P1, or P2
  • Estimated scope — files to create/modify, tests to write

Read the full file on GitHub · 169 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 4d ago First seen · 169 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A 52f1e5196b89

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joshua is an agent published in the GitHub repository CarbeneAI/Forge (9 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 1,729 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.